Deuteronomy 28:15-29
Legacy Standard Bible
Curses for Not Keeping the Commandments
15 “(A)But it will be, if you do not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep and to do all His commandments and His statutes with which I am commanding you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
16 “(B)Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the [a]field.
17 “(C)Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
18 “(D)Cursed shall be the [b]offspring of your [c]body and the [d]produce of your ground, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock.
19 “(E)Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.
20 “(F)Yahweh will send upon you the curse, confusion, and (G)rebuke, in all [e]that you send forth your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until (H)you perish quickly, on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken Me. 21 (I)Yahweh will make the pestilence cling to you until He has consumed you from the land where you are entering to possess it. 22 (J)Yahweh will strike you with consumption and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with [f]the sword and (K)with scorching wind and with mildew, and they will pursue you until (L)you perish. 23 And [g]the heaven which is over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you, iron. 24 (M)Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.
25 “(N)Yahweh shall cause you to be [h]defeated before your enemies; you will go out one way against them, but you will flee seven ways before them, and you will (O)become an example of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 (P)And your carcasses will be food to all birds of the sky and to the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.
27 “(Q)Yahweh will strike you with the boils of Egypt and with (R)tumors and with the scab and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed. 28 Yahweh will strike you with madness and with blindness and with bewilderment of heart; 29 and you will [i](S)grope at noon, as the blind man gropes in darkness, and you will not succeed in your ways; but you shall only be oppressed and robbed all your days, with none to save you.
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- Deuteronomy 28:16 Or country
- Deuteronomy 28:18 Lit fruit
- Deuteronomy 28:18 Or womb
- Deuteronomy 28:18 Lit fruit
- Deuteronomy 28:20 Lit the putting forth of your hand which you do
- Deuteronomy 28:22 Or drought
- Deuteronomy 28:23 Lit your
- Deuteronomy 28:25 Lit smitten
- Deuteronomy 28:29 Lit be groping
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