DE-28:1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken
diligently unto the
voice of the LORD thy God, to observe [and] to do all his
commandments which I
command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on
high above all
nations of the earth:
DE-28:2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and
overtake thee, if
thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
DE-28:3 Blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the city, and blessed
[shalt] thou [be]
in the field.
DE-28:4 Blessed [shall be] the fruit of thy body, and the fruit
of thy
ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine,
and the flocks
of thy sheep.
DE-28:5 Blessed [shall be] thy basket and thy store.
DE-28:6 Blessed [shalt] thou [be] when thou comest in, and
blessed [shalt]
thou [be] when thou goest out.
DE-28:7 The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against
thee to be
smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one
way, and flee
before thee seven ways.
DE-28:8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy
storehouses, and
in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless
thee in the land
which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
DE-28:9 The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto
himself, as he hath
sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD
thy God, and
walk in his ways.
DE-28:10 And all people of the earth shall see that thou art
called by the
name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.
DE-28:11 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in
the fruit of thy
body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy
ground, in the
land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
DE-28:12 The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the
heaven to give
the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work
of thine hand:
and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
DE-28:13 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the
tail; and thou
shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou
hearken unto
the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this
day, to
observe and to do [them]:
DE-28:14 And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words
which I command
thee this day, [to] the right hand, or [to] the left, to go
after other gods
to serve them.
DE-28:15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken
unto the voice
of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and
his statutes
which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come
upon thee, and
overtake thee:
DE-28:16 Cursed [shalt] thou [be] in the city, and cursed
[shalt] thou [be]
in the field.
DE-28:17 Cursed [shall be] thy basket and thy store.
DE-28:18 Cursed [shall be] the fruit of thy body, and the fruit
of thy land,
the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
DE-28:19 Cursed [shalt] thou [be] when thou comest in, and
cursed [shalt]
thou [be] when thou goest out.
DE-28:20 The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and
rebuke, in all
that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be
destroyed, and
until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy
doings, whereby
thou hast forsaken me.
DE-28:21 The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee,
until he have
consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess
it.
DE-28:22 The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with
a fever, and
with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the
sword, and
with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until
thou perish.
DE-28:23 And thy heaven that [is] over thy head shall be brass,
and the earth
that is under thee [shall be] iron.
DE-28:24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and
dust: from
heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
DE-28:25 The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine
enemies: thou
shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before
them: and shalt
be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
DE-28:26 And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the
air, and unto
the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray [them] away.
DE-28:27 The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and
with the
emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou
canst not be
healed.
DE-28:28 The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness,
and
astonishment of heart:
DE-28:29 And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth
in darkness,
and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only
oppressed and
spoiled evermore, and no man shall save [thee].
DE-28:30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie
with her: thou
shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou
shalt plant a
vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.
DE-28:31 Thine ox [shall be] slain before thine eyes, and thou
shalt not eat
thereof: thine ass [shall be] violently taken away from before
thy face, and
shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep [shall be] given unto
thine enemies,
and thou shalt have none to rescue [them].
DE-28:32 Thy sons and thy daughters [shall be] given unto
another people, and
thine eyes shall look, and fail [with longing] for them all the
day long: and
[there shall be] no might in thine hand.
DE-28:33 The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a
nation which
thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and
crushed alway:
DE-28:34 So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes
which thou
shalt see.
DE-28:35 The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the
legs, with a sore
botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the
top of thy
head.
DE-28:36 The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou
shalt set over
thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have
known; and there
shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.
DE-28:37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and
a byword,
among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
DE-28:38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and
shalt gather
[but] little in; for the locust shall consume it.
DE-28:39 Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress [them], but
shalt neither
drink [of] the wine, nor gather [the grapes]; for the worms
shall eat them.
DE-28:40 Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts,
but thou
shalt not anoint [thyself] with the oil; for thine olive shall
cast [his
fruit].
DE-28:41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt
not enjoy them;
for they shall go into captivity.
DE-28:42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust
consume.
DE-28:43 The stranger that [is] within thee shall get up above
thee very
high; and thou shalt come down very low.
DE-28:44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him:
he shall be
the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
DE-28:45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and
shall pursue
thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou
hearkenedst not
unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and
his statutes
which he commanded thee:
DE-28:46 And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a
wonder, and upon
thy seed for ever.
DE-28:47 Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with
joyfulness, and with
gladness of heart, for the abundance of all [things];
DE-28:48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the
LORD shall send
against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in
want of all
[things]: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until
he have
destroyed thee.
DE-28:49 The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far,
from the end of
the earth, [as swift] as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue
thou shalt
not understand;
DE-28:50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard
the person of
the old, nor show favour to the young:
DE-28:51 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the
fruit of thy land,
until thou be destroyed: which [also] shall not leave thee
[either] corn,
wine, or oil, [or] the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy
sheep, until he
have destroyed thee.
DE-28:52 And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy
high and
fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all
thy land: and
he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land,
which the LORD
thy God hath given thee.
DE-28:53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the
flesh of thy
sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given
thee, in the
siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall
distress thee:
DE-28:54 [So that] the man [that is] tender among you, and very
delicate, his
eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his
bosom, and
toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:
DE-28:55 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh
of his children
whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege,
and in the
straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all
thy gates.
DE-28:56 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would
not adventure
to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and
tenderness,
her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and
toward her son, and
toward her daughter,
DE-28:57 And toward her young one that cometh out from between
her feet, and
toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them
for want of
all [things] secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith
thine enemy shall
distress thee in thy gates.
DE-28:58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this
law that are
written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and
fearful name,
THE LORD THY GOD;
DE-28:59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the
plagues of
thy seed, [even] great plagues, and of long continuance, and
sore sicknesses,
and of long continuance.
DE-28:60 Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of
Egypt, which
thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.
DE-28:61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which [is] not
written in the
book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou
be destroyed.
DE-28:62 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as
the stars of
heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice
of the LORD thy
God.
DE-28:63 And it shall come to pass, [that] as the LORD rejoiced
over you to
do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over
you to destroy
you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from
off the land
whither thou goest to possess it.
DE-28:64 And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from
the one end
of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve
other gods, which
neither thou nor thy fathers have known, [even] wood and stone.
DE-28:65 And among these nations shalt thou find no ease,
neither shall the
sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a
trembling
heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
DE-28:66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou
shalt fear
day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:
DE-28:67 In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even!
and at even
thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine
heart
wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which
thou shalt
see.
DE-28:68 And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with
ships, by the
way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again:
and there ye
shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and
no man shall
buy [you].
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