Deuteronomy 28:1-14

Common English Bible

Future blessing

28 Now if you really obey the Lord your God’s voice, by carefully keeping all his commandments that I am giving you right now, then the Lord your God will set you high above all nations on earth. ²All these blessings will come upon you and find you if you obey the Lord your God’s voice: ³You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the field. ⁴Your own fertility, your soil’s produce, and your livestock’s offspring—the young of both cattle and flocks—will be blessed. ⁵Your basket and your kneading bowl will be blessed. ⁶You will be blessed when you are out and about and blessed when you come back. ⁷The Lord will defeat any enemies who attack you. They will come against you from one direction but will run for their lives away from you in seven different directions. ⁸The Lord will command the blessing to be with you—in your barns and on all the work you do—and he will bless you on the land the Lord your God is giving you. ⁹The Lord will establish you as his own, a holy nation, just as he swore to you, if you keep the Lord your God’s commandments and walk in his ways. ¹⁰All the earth’s peoples will see that you are called by the Lord’s name, and they will be in awe of you. ¹¹The Lord will make good things abound for you—whether the fertility of your womb, your livestock’s offspring, or your fertile soil’s produce—on the very land that the Lord swore to your ancestors to give to you. ¹²The Lord will open up for you his own well-stocked storehouse, the heavens, providing your land with rain at just the right time and blessing all your work. You will lend to many nations, but you won’t have any need to borrow. ¹³The Lord will make you the head of things, not the tail; you will be at the top of things, not the bottom, as long as you obey the Lord your God’s commandments that I’m commanding you right now, by carefully doing them. ¹⁴Don’t deviate even a bit from any of these words that I’m commanding you right now by following other gods and serving them.