Deuteronomy 28
Christian Standard Bible Anglicised
Blessings for Obedience
28 ‘Now(A) if you faithfully obey the Lord your God(B) and are careful to follow all his commands I am giving you today,(C) the Lord your God will put you far above all the nations of the earth.(D) 2 All these blessings will come and overtake(E) you, because you obey the Lord your God:
3 You will be blessed in the city
and blessed in the country.(F)
4 Your offspring[a] will be blessed,
and your land’s produce,
and the offspring of your livestock,
including the young of your herds
and the newborn of your flocks.(G)
5 Your basket and kneading bowl will be blessed.
6 You will be blessed when you come in
and blessed when you go out.(H)
7 ‘The Lord will cause the enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you. They will march out against you from one direction but flee from you in seven directions. 8 The Lord will grant you a blessing on your barns and on everything you do;[b](I) he will bless you in the land the Lord your God is giving you.(J) 9 The Lord will establish you as his holy people,(K) as he swore to you, if you obey the commands of the Lord your God and walk in his ways. 10 Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you bear the Lord’s name,(L) and they will stand in awe of you.(M) 11 The Lord will make you prosper abundantly with offspring,[c] the offspring of your livestock, and your land’s produce in the land the Lord swore to your ancestors to give you. 12 The Lord will open for you his abundant storehouse,(N) the sky, to give your land rain in its season and to bless all the work of your hands.(O) You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. 13 The Lord will make you the head and not the tail;(P) you will only move upwards and never downwards if you listen to the Lord your God’s commands I am giving you today and are careful to follow them. 14 Do not turn aside to the right or the left from all the things I am commanding you today,(Q) and do not follow other gods to worship them.
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(R) you:(S)
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,(T) and rebuke in everything you do until you are destroyed and quickly perish,(U) because of the wickedness of your actions in abandoning me.(V) 21 The Lord will make pestilence cling to you until he has exterminated you from the land you are entering to possess.(W) 22 The Lord will afflict you with wasting disease, fever, inflammation, burning heat, drought,[d] blight, and mildew;(X) 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[e] 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.(Y) You will be an object of horror(Z) 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.(AA)
27 ‘The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt,(AB) tumours, a festering rash, and scabies, from which you cannot be cured. 28 The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness, and mental confusion,(AC) 29 so that at noon you will grope as a blind person gropes in the dark.(AD) You will not be successful in anything you do. You will only be oppressed and robbed continually, and no one will help you.(AE) 30 You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it.(AF) You will plant a vineyard but not enjoy its fruit. 31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away from you and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will help you. 32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes grow weary looking for them every day. But you will be powerless to do anything.(AG) 33 A people you don’t know will eat your land’s produce and everything you have laboured for. You will only be oppressed and crushed continually.(AH) 34 You will be driven mad by what you see. 35 The Lord will afflict you with painful and incurable boils on your knees and thighs – from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.(AI)
36 ‘The Lord will bring you and your king that you have appointed to a nation neither you nor your ancestors have known, and there you will worship other gods, of wood and stone.(AJ) 37 You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the peoples where the Lord will drive you.(AK)
38 ‘You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because locusts will devour it. 39 You will plant and cultivate vineyards but not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them. 40 You will have olive trees throughout your territory but not moisten your skin with oil, because your olives will drop off. 41 You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will be taken prisoner. 42 Buzzing insects will take possession of all your trees and your land’s produce. 43 The resident foreigner among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink lower and lower. 44 He will lend to you, but you won’t lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.
45 ‘All these curses will come, pursue, and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the Lord your God and keep the commands and statutes he gave you. 46 These curses will be a sign and a wonder(AL) against you and your descendants for ever. 47 Because you didn’t serve the Lord your God with joy and a cheerful heart,(AM) even though you had an abundance of everything, 48 you will serve your enemies that the Lord will send against you, in famine, thirst, nakedness, and a lack of everything. He will place an iron yoke(AN) on your neck until he has destroyed you. 49 The Lord will bring a nation from far away, from the ends of the earth,(AO) to swoop down on you like an eagle,(AP) a nation whose language you won’t understand,(AQ) 50 a ruthless nation, showing no respect for the old and not sparing the young. 51 They will eat the offspring of your livestock and your land’s produce until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine, fresh oil, young of your herds, or newborn of your flocks until they cause you to perish. 52 They will besiege you within all your city gates until your high and fortified walls, that you trust in, come down throughout your land. They will besiege you within all your city gates throughout the land the Lord your God has given you.
53 ‘You will eat your offspring,[f] the flesh of your sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you(AR) during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you. 54 The most sensitive and refined man among you will look grudgingly at his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children, 55 refusing to share with any of them his children’s flesh that he will eat because he has nothing left during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you in all your towns. 56 The most sensitive and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her refinement and sensitivity, will begrudge the husband she embraces, her son, and her daughter, 57 the afterbirth that comes out from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you within your city gates.
58 ‘If you are not careful to obey all the words of this law, which are written in this scroll, by fearing this glorious and awe-inspiring name – the Lord, your God – 59 he will bring wondrous plagues on you and your descendants, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic diseases. 60 He will afflict you again with all the diseases of Egypt,(AS) which you dreaded, and they will cling to you. 61 The Lord will also afflict you with every disease and plague not recorded in the book of this law, until you are destroyed. 62 Though you were as numerous as the stars of the sky, you will be left with only a few people, because you did not obey the Lord your God. 63 Just as the Lord was glad to cause you to prosper and to multiply you, so he will also be glad to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You will be ripped out of the land you are entering to possess. 64 Then the Lord will scatter you among all peoples from one end of the earth to the other,(AT) and there you will worship other gods, of wood and stone,(AU) which neither you nor your ancestors have known.(AV) 65 You will find no peace among those nations, and there will be no resting place(AW) for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despondent spirit. 66 Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be in dread night and day, never certain of survival. 67 In the morning you will say, “If only it were evening! ” and in the evening you will say, “If only it were morning! ” – because of the dread you will have in your heart and because of what you will see. 68 The Lord will take you back in ships to Egypt by a route that I said you would never see again.(AX) There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.’
Deuteronomy 28
English Standard Version
Blessings for Obedience
28 “And (A)if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you (B)high above all the nations of the earth. 2 And all these blessings shall come upon you and (C)overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God. 3 Blessed shall you be in the city, and (D)blessed shall you be in the field. 4 Blessed shall be (E)the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. 5 Blessed shall be your basket and your (F)kneading bowl. 6 Blessed shall you be (G)when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.
7 “The Lord (H)will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you. They shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways. 8 The Lord (I)will command the blessing on you in your barns and (J)in all that you undertake. (K)And he will bless you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. 9 (L)The Lord will establish you as a people holy to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in his ways. 10 And (M)all the peoples of the earth shall see that you are (N)called by the name of the Lord, and they shall be (O)afraid of you. 11 And (P)the Lord will make you abound in prosperity, in (Q)the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your livestock and in the fruit of your ground, within the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give you. 12 The Lord will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, (R)to give the rain to your land in its season and (S)to bless all the work of your hands. And (T)you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. 13 And the Lord will make you (U)the head and not the tail, and you shall only go up and not down, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, being careful to do them, 14 (V)and if you do not turn aside from any of the words that I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
Curses for Disobedience
15 “But (W)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 (X)overtake you. 16 Cursed shall you be (Y)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 (Z)will send on you curses, confusion, and (AA)frustration in all that you undertake to do, (AB)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 (AC)the pestilence stick to you until he has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it. 22 (AD)The Lord will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought[a] and with (AE)blight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish. 23 And (AF)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 (AG)“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 (AH)shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 And (AI)your dead body shall be food for all birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth, and (AJ)there shall be no one to frighten them away. 27 The Lord will strike you (AK)with the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and (AL)scabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed. 28 The Lord will strike you with (AM)madness and blindness and confusion of mind, 29 and you shall (AN)grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways.[b] And you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you. 30 (AO)You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall ravish her. (AP)You shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it. (AQ)You shall plant a vineyard, but you shall not enjoy its fruit. 31 Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat any of it. Your donkey shall be seized before your face, but shall not be restored to you. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies, but there shall be no one to help you. 32 (AR)Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, (AS)but you shall be helpless. 33 A nation that you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually, 34 so that you are driven mad (AT)by the sights that your eyes see. 35 The Lord will strike you on the knees and on the legs (AU)with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
36 “The Lord will (AV)bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you (AW)nor your fathers have known. And (AX)there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone. 37 And you shall become (AY)a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away. 38 (AZ)You shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for (BA)the locust shall consume it. 39 (BB)You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them. 40 You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you (BC)shall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off. 41 You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for (BD)they shall go into captivity. 42 (BE)The cricket[c] shall possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground. 43 (BF)The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. 44 (BG)He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. (BH)He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
45 (BI)“All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you. 46 They shall be (BJ)a sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever. 47 (BK)Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things, 48 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he (BL)will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you. 49 (BM)The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, (BN)swooping down like the eagle, a nation (BO)whose language you do not understand, 50 a hard-faced nation (BP)who shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young. 51 It shall (BQ)eat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; it also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
52 “They shall (BR)besiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land. And they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the Lord your God has given you. 53 And (BS)you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, (BT)in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you. 54 The man who is the most tender and refined among you will (BU)begrudge food to his brother, to (BV)the wife he embraces,[d] and to the last of the children whom he has left, 55 so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, (BW)in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns. 56 (BX)The most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces,[e] to her son and to her daughter, 57 her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, (BY)in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.
58 “If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, (BZ)the Lord your God, 59 then the Lord will bring on you and your offspring extraordinary afflictions, afflictions severe and lasting, and sicknesses grievous and lasting. 60 And he will bring upon you again all (CA)the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you. 61 Every sickness also and every affliction that is not recorded in the book of this law, the Lord will bring upon you, until you are destroyed. 62 Whereas (CB)you were as numerous (CC)as the stars of heaven, you shall be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God. 63 And as the Lord (CD)took delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the Lord will (CE)take delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you. And you shall be plucked off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
64 “And the Lord (CF)will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and (CG)there you shall serve other gods (CH)of wood and stone, (CI)which neither you nor your fathers have known. 65 And (CJ)among these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but (CK)the Lord will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and (CL)a languishing soul. 66 Your life shall hang in doubt before you. Night and day you shall be in dread and have no assurance of your life. 67 (CM)In the morning you shall say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and at evening you shall say, ‘If only it were morning!’ because of the dread that your heart shall feel, and (CN)the sights that your eyes shall see. 68 And the Lord (CO)will bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey that I promised that (CP)you should never make again; and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 28:22 Or sword
- Deuteronomy 28:29 Or shall not succeed in finding your ways
- Deuteronomy 28:42 Identity uncertain
- Deuteronomy 28:54 Hebrew the wife of his bosom
- Deuteronomy 28:56 Hebrew the husband of her bosom
Deuteronomio 28
La Palabra (Hispanoamérica)
Bendiciones y maldiciones (Lv 26,3-13; Dt 7,12-24)
28 Si realmente obedeces al Señor tu Dios, y cumples fielmente todos estos mandamientos que hoy te prescribo, el Señor tu Dios hará que seas superior a todas las naciones de la tierra. 2 Si obedeces al Señor tu Dios, vendrán sobre ti y te alcanzarán todas estas bendiciones:
3 Bendito serás en la ciudad
y bendito en el campo.
4 Benditos serán el fruto de tus entrañas
y el fruto de tu tierra, las crías de tu ganado,
las terneras de tus manadas
y las crías de tus rebaños.
5 Bendita será tu cesta
y bendita tu artesa.
6 Bendito serás al salir
y bendito al entrar.
7 El Señor te entregará vencidos a los enemigos que se alcen contra ti: vendrán a atacarte por un camino, y por siete caminos huirán de ti.
8 El Señor tu Dios bendecirá tus graneros y todo el trabajo de tus manos; te bendecirá en la tierra que él te da.
9 Si cumples los mandamientos del Señor tu Dios y sigues sus caminos, el Señor hará de ti un pueblo consagrado a él, tal como te ha jurado. 10 Todos los pueblos de la tierra verán que con razón eres llamado pueblo de Dios, y te respetarán.
11 El Señor te concederá abundancia de bienes: te dará muchos hijos y multiplicará tus ganados y tus cosechas en la tierra que prometió darte según juró a tus antepasados.
12 El Señor abrirá los cielos —su rico tesoro— para derramar a su debido tiempo la lluvia sobre la tierra, y para bendecir todo el trabajo de tus manos. Prestarás a muchas naciones, pero tú no tendrás que pedir prestado. 13 El Señor te pondrá a la cabeza, nunca a la cola; estarás siempre encima, nunca debajo; sólo es preciso que obedezcas los mandamientos del Señor tu Dios que yo te prescribo hoy, que los pongas en práctica, 14 y que no te apartes jamás, ni a derecha ni a izquierda, de ninguna de las palabras que yo te prescribo hoy, y que no sirvas ni rindas culto a otros dioses.
Maldiciones por la desobediencia (Lv 26,14-46)
15 Pero si no obedeces al Señor tu Dios ni pones en práctica todos sus mandamientos y preceptos que yo te prescribo hoy, vendrán sobre ti y te alcanzarán todas estas maldiciones:
16 Maldito serás en la ciudad
y maldito en el campo.
17 Maldita serán tu canasta
y maldita tu artesa.
18 Malditos serán el fruto de tus entrañas,
y el fruto de tu tierra, las crías de tu ganado,
las terneras de tus manadas
y las crías de tus rebaños.
19 Maldito serás al salir
y maldito al entrar.
20 El Señor hará que maldición, angustia y fracaso te acompañen en todo lo que emprendas, hasta que seas exterminado y desaparezcas sin tardanza, por tu mal proceder al abandonarle.
21 El Señor te enviará la peste hasta acabar contigo en la tierra que va a darte en posesión. 22 El Señor te castigará con epidemias mortales, fiebres malignas e inflamaciones, con calor sofocante y sequía, y con plagas y pestes sobre tus cultivos. Estos desastres te perseguirán hasta que te hagan perecer completamente. 23 Sobre tu cabeza, el cielo será como bronce; bajo tus pies, la tierra será como hierro. 24 El Señor cambiará la lluvia de tu tierra en arena y ceniza que caerán del cielo sobre ti hasta que seas aniquilado.
25 El Señor hará que tus enemigos te derroten. Avanzarás contra ellos en perfecta formación, pero huirás en desbandada. ¡Todos los reinos de la tierra sentirán espanto al verte! 26 Tu cadáver servirá de pasto a las aves del cielo y a las bestias de la tierra, y no habrá quien las ahuyente.
27 El Señor te hará sufrir con úlceras como las de Egipto, con tumores, sarna y tiña incurables.
28 El Señor también te hará padecer locura, ceguera y delirio, 29 de manera que en pleno día andarás a tientas, como el ciego en la oscuridad. Fracasarás en todo lo que hagas; día tras día serás oprimido; te robarán y nadie acudirá en tu ayuda. 30 Te casarás con una mujer, pero será otro quien se acueste con ella; te construirás una casa, y no llegarás a habitarla; plantarás un viñedo, pero no llegarás a disfrutar de su fruto. 31 Tu buey será degollado ante tus propios ojos y no probarás su carne; te arrebatarán tu asno, estando tú presente, y no te lo devolverán; tus ovejas pasarán a manos de tus enemigos, y nadie te ayudará a recuperarlas. 32 Tus hijos y tus hijas serán entregados a un pueblo extranjero; tú lo contemplarás con desconsuelo, pero nada podrás hacer. 33 Un pueblo desconocido se comerá los frutos de tu tierra y todo el producto de tu trabajo; te explotará y te maltratará sin parar. 34 Y enloquecerás cuando veas con tus propios ojos esas cosas.
35 El Señor te herirá con úlceras purulentas e incurables en las rodillas, en las piernas, desde la planta del pie hasta la coronilla.
36 El Señor hará que tanto tú como el rey que hayas elegido para ser tu soberano, sean deportados a un país que ni tú ni tus antepasados conocieron. Allí rendirás culto a otros dioses, hechos de madera y de piedra. 37 Serás motivo de espanto, de burla y escarnio en todas las naciones a las que te lleve el Señor.
38 Sembrarás abundante semilla en el campo, pero cosecharás una miseria, porque la langosta la devorará. 39 Plantarás viñedos y los cultivarás, pero no vendimiarás las uvas ni beberás el vino, porque el gusano atacará la cepa. 40 Tendrás olivos por toda tu tierra, pero no te darán aceite ni para ungirte, porque se pudrirán las aceitunas. 41 Tendrás hijos e hijas, pero no podrás tenerlos contigo, porque serán llevados al cautiverio. 42 ¡Enjambres de langosta devorarán todos los árboles y las cosechas de tu tierra!
43 El emigrante que resida contigo subirá cada día más alto, mientras que tu caerás cada vez más bajo; 44 él será tu acreedor y tú serás su deudor; él irá a la cabeza y tú quedarás rezagado.
45 Todas estas maldiciones caerán sobre ti. Te perseguirán y te alcanzarán hasta destruirte, porque desobedeciste al Señor tu Dios y no cumpliste los mandamientos y preceptos que él te ha mandado. 46 Ellos serán una señal y una advertencia permanente para ti y tu descendencia, 47 pues no rendiste culto al Señor tu Dios con alegría y generosidad cuando tenías de todo en abundancia. 48 Por eso sufrirás hambre y sed, desnudez y suma pobreza, y serás esclavo de los enemigos que el Señor enviará contra ti. Ellos te pondrán un yugo de hierro sobre el cuello hasta que te aniquile.
49 El Señor hará que se levante contra ti una nación muy lejana, cuyo idioma no podrás entender; vendrá de los confines de la tierra, veloz como un águila. 50 Esa nación, de aspecto feroz, no sentirá compasión de los ancianos ni se apiadará de los niños. 51 Se comerá las crías de tu ganado y las cosechas de tu tierra, hasta arruinarte; no te dejará trigo, ni mosto, ni aceite, ni terneras en las manadas, ni corderos en los rebaños. ¡Te dejará completamente arruinado! 52 Sitiará todas tus ciudades hasta que se desplomen en todo el país las murallas altas y fortificadas en que habías depositado tu confianza. Sí, él te sitiará en todas las ciudades, en toda la tierra que el Señor tu Dios te da.
53 Tal será tu penuria durante el asedio a que te someta tu enemigo, que acabarás comiéndote el fruto de tu vientre, ¡la carne misma de los hijos y las hijas que el Señor tu Dios te ha dado! 54 Incluso el hombre más delicado y sensible de tu pueblo recelará de su propio hermano, de su esposa a la que ama y de los hijos que todavía le queden, 55 hasta el punto de no compartir con ellos nada de la carne de sus hijos, que comerá por no haberle quedado ninguna otra cosa después de la angustia que te hará sentir tu enemigo durante el asedio de todas tus ciudades. 56 Igualmente, la mujer más fina y delicada de tu pueblo, tan fina y delicada que no se atrevería a rozar el suelo con la punta de su pie, recelará de su propio esposo al que ama, de sus hijos y de sus hijas. 57 No compartirá el hijo que acaba de parir ni su placenta, sino que se los comerá en secreto, pues será lo único que le quede debido a la angustia que te hará sentir tu enemigo durante el asedio de todas tus ciudades.
58 Si no cumples cuidadosamente todas las palabras de esta ley, que están escritas en este libro, ni respetas el glorioso y temible nombre del Señor tu Dios, 59 entonces el Señor enviará terribles y persistentes plagas contra ti y tus descendientes, junto con enfermedades malignas e incurables. 60 Enviará sobre ti todas las plagas de Egipto, que tanto espanto te causaron, y no te podrás librar de ellas.
61 El Señor enviará contra ti, hasta exterminarte, toda clase de enfermedades y desastres, incluso las que no se mencionan en el libro de esta ley. 62 Y ustedes, que como pueblo llegaron a ser tan numerosos como las estrellas del cielo, quedarán reducidos a unos cuantos por no haber obedecido al Señor tu Dios. 63 Así como el Señor se complacía en multiplicarte y hacerte prosperar, ahora se complacerá en arrasarlos y destruirlos. ¡Serán arrancados de la tierra adonde van a entrar para tomarla en posesión!
64 El Señor te dispersará por todas las naciones, de uno al otro extremo de la tierra. Allí rendirás culto a otros dioses, dioses de madera y de piedra, que ni tú ni tus antepasados conocieron. 65 En esas naciones no hallarás paz ni descanso, porque el Señor hará que vivas atemorizado, triste y acongojado. 66 Tu vida estará pendiente de un hilo; tendrás miedo de día y de noche; nunca vivirás seguro. 67 Será tanto el miedo que se apoderará de ti y tales las cosas que verán tus ojos, que por la mañana dirás: “¡Ojalá fuera de noche!”, y por la noche: “¡Ojalá fuera de día!”. 68 Y aunque el Señor te dijo que no volverías a recorrer el camino de Egipto, sin embargo te hará volver allí en barcos. Allí serán ofrecidos como esclavos y esclavas a sus enemigos, pero nadie los querrá comprar.
V.— TERCER Y ÚLTIMO DISCURSO DE MOISÉS (28,69—30,20)
Introducción histórica
69 Estos son los términos de la alianza que el Señor ordenó a Moisés pactar con los israelitas en Moab, además de la alianza que ya había hecho con ellos en Horeb.
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