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Curses by Disease and Drought

20 “The Lord will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you[a] in everything you undertake[b] until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:20 tn Heb “the curse, the confusion, and the rebuke” (NASB and NIV similar); NRSV “disaster, panic, and frustration.”
  2. Deuteronomy 28:20 tn Heb “in all the stretching out of your hand.”
  3. Deuteronomy 28:20 tc For the MT first person common singular suffix (“me”), the LXX reads either “Lord” (Lucian) or third person masculine singular suffix (“him”; various codices). The MT’s more difficult reading probably represents the original text.tn Heb “the evil of your doings wherein you have forsaken me”; CEV “all because you rejected the Lord.”

20 L'Éternel enverra contre toi la malédiction, le trouble et la menace, au milieu de toutes les entreprises que tu feras, jusqu'à ce que tu sois détruit, jusqu'à ce que tu périsses promptement, à cause de la méchanceté de tes actions, qui t'aura porté à m'abandonner.

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