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Deuteronomy 28:15-68
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. 30 (T)You shall betroth a wife, but another man will violate her; (U)you shall build a house, but you will not live in it; you shall plant a vineyard, but you will not [j]use its fruit. 31 Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat of it; your donkey shall be torn away from you and will not be returned to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you will have none to save you. 32 (V)Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and yearn for them all the day long; but there will be nothing [k]you can do. 33 (W)A people whom you do not know shall eat up the produce of your ground and all your labors, and you will never be anything but oppressed and crushed all your days. 34 And you shall be driven mad by the sight of what your eyes see. 35 (X)Yahweh will strike you on the knees and legs with sore boils, from which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the top of your head. 36 (Y)Yahweh will lead you and your king, whom you set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods, (Z)wood and stone. 37 (AA)You shall become an object of horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the people where Yahweh drives you.

38 “(AB)You shall bring out much seed to the field, but you will gather in little, for (AC)the locust will consume it. 39 (AD)You shall plant and cultivate vineyards, but you will neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm will devour them. 40 (AE)You shall have olive trees throughout your territory, but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off. 41 (AF)You shall become the father of sons and daughters, but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity. 42 (AG)The cricket shall possess all your trees and the produce of your ground. 43 (AH)The sojourner who is among you shall rise above you higher and higher, but you will go down lower and lower. 44 (AI)He shall lend to you, but you will not lend to him; (AJ)he shall be the head, and you will be the tail.

45 “So all these curses shall come on you and pursue you and overtake you (AK)until you are destroyed, because you would not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you. 46 And they shall become (AL)a sign and a wonder on you and your seed forever.

47 “(AM)Because you did not serve Yahweh your God with gladness and a merry heart—because of the abundance of all things, 48 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom Yahweh will send against you, (AN)in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the lack of all things; and He (AO)will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

49 “(AP)Yahweh will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, (AQ)as the eagle swoops down, a nation whose tongue you shall not understand, 50 a nation of fierce countenance who will (AR)have no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young. 51 Moreover, it shall eat the [l]offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed, who also will not allow grain, new wine, or oil, and the increase of your herd or the young of your flock to remain for you until they have caused you to perish. 52 (AS)And it shall besiege you in all your gates until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout your land, and it shall besiege you in all your gates throughout your land which Yahweh your God has given you. 53 (AT)Then you shall eat the [m]offspring of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters whom Yahweh your God has given you, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will [n]oppress you. 54 The man who is [o]refined and very delicate among you [p]shall be hostile toward his brother and toward the wife [q]he cherishes and toward the rest of his children who remain, 55 so that he will not give even one of them any of the flesh of his children which he will eat, since he has nothing else remaining, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will [r]oppress you in all your gates. 56 (AU)The [s]refined and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and [t]refinement, [u]shall be hostile toward the husband [v]she cherishes and toward her son and daughter, 57 and toward her afterbirth which issues from between her [w]legs and toward her children whom she bears; for (AV)she will eat them secretly for lack of anything else, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will [x]oppress you in your gates.

58 “If you are not careful to do all the words of this law which are written in this book, to [y](AW)fear this glorious and fearsome (AX)name, Yahweh your God, 59 then Yahweh will bring wondrous plagues on you and plagues on those who are your seed, even great and enduring plagues, and miserable and enduring sicknesses. 60 (AY)And He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you. 61 Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, Yahweh will bring on you (AZ)until you are destroyed. 62 Then you shall remain few in number, (BA)whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God. 63 And it will be that as Yahweh (BB)delighted over you to prosper you and multiply you, so Yahweh will (BC)delight over you to make you perish and destroy you; and you will be (BD)torn from the land where you are entering to possess it. 64 Moreover, Yahweh will (BE)scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; and there you shall (BF)serve other gods, wood and stone, which you or your fathers have not known. 65 (BG)Moreover, among those nations you shall find no relief, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there (BH)Yahweh will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul. 66 So your life shall [z]hang in doubt before you; and you will be in dread night and day and shall not have any faith in your life. 67 (BI)In the morning you shall say, ‘Would that it were evening!’ And at evening you shall say, ‘Would that it were morning!’ because of the dread of your heart which you dread, and because of the sight of your eyes which you will see. 68 And Yahweh will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way about which I spoke to you, ‘You will never see it again!’ And there you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:16 Or country
  2. Deuteronomy 28:18 Lit fruit
  3. Deuteronomy 28:18 Or womb
  4. Deuteronomy 28:18 Lit fruit
  5. Deuteronomy 28:20 Lit the putting forth of your hand which you do
  6. Deuteronomy 28:22 Or drought
  7. Deuteronomy 28:23 Lit your
  8. Deuteronomy 28:25 Lit smitten
  9. Deuteronomy 28:29 Lit be groping
  10. Deuteronomy 28:30 Lit begin it
  11. Deuteronomy 28:32 Lit in the strength of your hand
  12. Deuteronomy 28:51 Lit fruit
  13. Deuteronomy 28:53 Lit fruit
  14. Deuteronomy 28:53 Or distress
  15. Deuteronomy 28:54 Lit tender
  16. Deuteronomy 28:54 Lit his eye shall be evil toward
  17. Deuteronomy 28:54 Lit of his bosom
  18. Deuteronomy 28:55 Or distress
  19. Deuteronomy 28:56 Lit tender
  20. Deuteronomy 28:56 Lit tenderness
  21. Deuteronomy 28:56 Lit her eye shall be evil toward
  22. Deuteronomy 28:56 Lit of her bosom
  23. Deuteronomy 28:57 Lit feet
  24. Deuteronomy 28:57 Or distress
  25. Deuteronomy 28:58 Or reverence
  26. Deuteronomy 28:66 Lit be hung for you in front
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Deuteronomy 28:15-68
Holman Christian Standard Bible

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 you:(A)

16 You will be cursed in the city
and cursed in the country.
17 Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed.
18 Your descendants[a] 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, and rebuke in everything you do[b] until you are destroyed and quickly perish, because of the wickedness of your actions in abandoning Me. 21 The Lord will make pestilence cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land you are entering to possess. 22 The Lord will afflict you with wasting disease, fever, inflammation, burning heat, drought,[c] blight, and mildew; 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[d] 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. You will be an object of horror 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 land, with no one to scare them away.(B)

27 “The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, tumors, a festering rash, and scabies, from which you cannot be cured. 28 The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness, and mental confusion, 29 so that at noon you will grope as a blind man gropes in the dark.(C) You will not be successful in anything you do. You will only be oppressed and robbed continually, and no one will help you. 30 You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. 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.[e] 33 A people you don’t know will eat your land’s produce and everything you have labored for. You will only be oppressed and crushed continually. 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.(D)

36 “The Lord will bring you and your king that you have appointed to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods, of wood and stone. 37 You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the peoples where the Lord will drive you.(E)

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 anoint yourself 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 Whirring insects will take possession of all your trees and your land’s produce. 43 The foreign resident 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 against you and your descendants forever. 47 Because you didn’t serve the Lord your God with joy and a cheerful heart, even though you had an abundance of everything, 48 you will serve your enemies the Lord will send against you, in famine, thirst, nakedness, and a lack of everything. He will place an iron yoke(F) on your neck until He has destroyed you. 49 The Lord will bring a nation from far away, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down on you like an eagle, a nation whose language you don’t understand, 50 a ruthless nation,[f] 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, oil, young of your herds, or newborn of your flocks until they cause you to perish. 52 They will besiege you within all your gates until your high and fortified walls, that you trust in, come down throughout your land. They will besiege you within all your gates throughout the land the Lord your God has given you.

53 “You will eat your children,[g] the flesh of your sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you(G) during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you. 54 The most sensitive and refined man among you will look grudgingly[h] at his brother, the wife he embraces,[i] 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 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 awesome name—Yahweh, your God— 59 He will bring extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses. 60 He will afflict you again with all the diseases of Egypt, which you dreaded, and they will cling to you. 61 The Lord will also afflict you with every sickness 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 deported from 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, and there you will worship other gods, of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known. 65 You will find no peace among those nations, and there will be no resting place(H) 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.(I) There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:18 Lit The fruit of your womb
  2. Deuteronomy 28:20 Lit you put your hand to
  3. Deuteronomy 28:22 Or sword
  4. Deuteronomy 28:24 Lit powder and
  5. Deuteronomy 28:32 Lit day, and not for power your hand
  6. Deuteronomy 28:50 Lit a nation strong of face
  7. Deuteronomy 28:53 Lit eat the fruit of your womb
  8. Deuteronomy 28:54 Lit you his eye will be evil
  9. Deuteronomy 28:54 Lit wife of his bosom
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