Deuteronomy 28:15-28

English Standard Version

Curses for Disobedience

¹⁵ “But ^(A)if you will not obey the voice of the Lord your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and ^(B)overtake you. ¹⁶ Cursed shall you be ^(C)in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field. ¹⁷ Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. ¹⁸ Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. ¹⁹ Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

²⁰ “The Lord ^(D)will send on you curses, confusion, and ^(E)frustration in all that you undertake to do, ^(F)until you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken me. ²¹ The Lord will make ^(G)the pestilence stick to you until he has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it. ^22 (H)The Lord will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought^[a] and with ^(I)blight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish. ²³ And ^(J)the heavens over your head shall be bronze, and the earth under you shall be iron. ²⁴ The Lord will make the rain of your land powder. From heaven dust shall come down on you until you are destroyed.

^25 (K)“The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you ^(L)shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. ²⁶ And ^(M)your dead body shall be food for all birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth, and ^(N)there shall be no one to frighten them away. ²⁷ The Lord will strike you ^(O)with the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and ^(P)scabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed. ²⁸ The Lord will strike you with ^(Q)madness and blindness and confusion of mind,