Consequences of Disobedience

15 (A)But it shall come about, if you do not [a]obey the Lord your God, to be careful to [b]follow all His commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

16 (B)Cursed will you be in the city, and cursed will you be in the [c]country.

17 (C)Cursed will be your basket and your kneading bowl.

18 (D)Cursed will be the [d]children of your womb, the [e]produce of your ground, the newborn of your herd, and the offspring of your flock.

19 (E)Cursed will you be when you come in, and cursed will you be when you go out.

20 (F)The Lord will send against you curses, panic, and (G)rebuke, in [f]everything you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and until (H)you perish quickly, on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have abandoned Me. 21 (I)The Lord will make the plague cling to you until He has eliminated you from the land where you are entering to take possession of it. 22 (J)The Lord will strike you with consumption, inflammation, fever, feverish heat, and with [g]the sword, (K)with blight, and with mildew, and they will pursue you until (L)you perish. 23 [h]The heaven which is over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you, iron. 24 (M)The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:15 Lit listen to the voice of
  2. Deuteronomy 28:15 Lit perform
  3. Deuteronomy 28:16 Lit field
  4. Deuteronomy 28:18 Lit fruit
  5. Deuteronomy 28:18 Lit fruit
  6. Deuteronomy 28:20 Lit every putting forth of your hand which you do
  7. Deuteronomy 28:22 Another reading is drought
  8. Deuteronomy 28:23 Lit Your

10 The field is (A)ruined,
(B)The land mourns;
For the grain is ruined,
The new wine has dried up,
Fresh oil has [a]failed.
11 (C)Be ashamed, you farm workers,
Wail, you vinedressers,
For the wheat and the barley;
Because the (D)harvest of the field is destroyed.
12 The (E)vine has dried up
And the fig tree has withered;
The (F)pomegranate, the (G)palm also, and the (H)apple tree,
All the trees of the field have dried up.
Indeed, (I)joy has dried up
From the sons of mankind.

13 (J)Put on sackcloth
And mourn, you priests;
(K)Wail, you ministers of the altar!
Come, (L)spend the night in sackcloth,
You ministers of my God,
For the grain offering and the drink offering
Have been withheld from the house of your God.

Starvation and Drought

14 (M)Consecrate a fast,
Proclaim a (N)solemn assembly;
Gather the elders
And all the inhabitants of the land
To the house of the Lord your God,
And (O)cry out to the Lord.
15 (P)Woe for the day!
For the (Q)day of the Lord is near,
And it will come as (R)destruction from the [b]Almighty.
16 Has (S)food not been cut off before our eyes, and
Joy and (T)rejoicing from the house of our God?
17 The [c](U)seeds have dried up under their shovels;
The storehouses have become desolate,
The grain silos are ruined,
Because the grain has dried up.
18 How (V)the animals have groaned!
The herds of cattle have wandered aimlessly
Because there is no pasture for them;
Even the flocks of sheep have [d]suffered.
19 (W)To You, Lord, I cry out;
For (X)fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness,
And the flame has burned up all the trees of the field.
20 Even the animals of the field [e](Y)pant for You;
For the (Z)stream beds of water are dried up,
And fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:10 Lit dried out
  2. Joel 1:15 Heb Shaddai
  3. Joel 1:17 Or dried figs
  4. Joel 1:18 Lit suffered punishment
  5. Joel 1:20 Or long for

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