Curses for Disobedience

15 “But if you do not obey the Lord your God by carefully following all his commands and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come and overtake(A) you:(B)

16 You will be cursed in the city
and cursed in the country.
17 Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed.
18 Your offspring will be cursed,
and your land’s produce,
the young of your herds,
and the newborn of your flocks.
19 You will be cursed when you come in
and cursed when you go out.

20 The Lord will send against you curses, confusion,(C) and rebuke in everything you do until you are destroyed and quickly perish,(D) because of the wickedness of your actions in abandoning me.(E) 21 The Lord will make pestilence cling to you until he has exterminated you from the land you are entering to possess.(F) 22 The Lord will afflict you with wasting disease, fever, inflammation, burning heat, drought,[a] blight, and mildew;(G) these will pursue you until you perish. 23 The sky above you will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron. 24 The Lord will turn the rain of your land into falling[b] dust; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed. 25 The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions.(H) You will be an object of horror(I) to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the earth, with no one to scare them away.(J)

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Footnotes

  1. 28:22 Or sword
  2. 28:24 Lit powder and

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