Deu 28:2 All these blessings will come upon you and overtake you if you obey the Lord your God:

Deu 28:3 "Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country.

Deu 28:4 "Blessed shall be the offspring of your body and the produce of your ground and the offspring of your beasts, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock.

Deu 28:5 "Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

Deu 28:6 "Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.

Deu 28:7 "The Lord shall cause your enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you; they will come out against you one way and will flee before you seven ways.

Deu 28:8 The Lord will command the blessing upon you in your barns and in all that you put your hand to, and He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God gives you.

Deu 28:9 The Lord will establish you as a holy people to Himself, as He swore to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in His ways.

Deu 28:10 So all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they will be afraid of you.

Deu 28:11 The Lord will make you abound in prosperity, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your beast and in the produce of your ground, in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you.

Deu 28:12 The Lord will open for you His good storehouse, the heavens, to give rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.

Deu 28:13 The Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you only will be above, and you will not be underneath, if you listen to the commandments of the Lord your God, which I charge you today, to observe them carefully,

Deu 28:14 and do not turn aside from any of the words which I command you today, to the right or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

Deu 28:15 "But it shall come about, if you do not obey the Lord your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes with which I charge you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

Deu 28:16 "Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country.

Deu 28:17 "Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

Deu 28:18 "Cursed shall be the offspring of your body and the produce of your ground, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock.

Deu 28:19 "Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

Deu 28:20 "The Lord will send upon you curses, confusion, and rebuke, in all you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken Me.

Deu 28:21 The Lord will make the pestilence cling to you until He has consumed you from the land where you are entering to possess it.

Deu 28:22 The Lord will smite you with consumption and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with the sword and with blight and with mildew, and they will pursue you until you perish.

Deu 28:23 The heaven which is over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you, iron.

Deu 28:24 The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.

Deu 28:25 "The Lord shall cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you will go out one way against them, but you will flee seven ways before them, and you will be an example of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Deu 28:26 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.

Deu 28:27 "The Lord will smite you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and with the scab and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed.

Deu 28:28 The Lord will smite you with madness and with blindness and with bewilderment of heart;

Deu 28:29 and you will grope at noon, as the blind man gropes in darkness, and you will not prosper in your ways; but you shall only be oppressed and robbed continually, with none to save you.

Deu 28:30 You shall betroth a wife, but another man will violate her; you shall build a house, but you will not live in it; you shall plant a vineyard, but you will not use its fruit.

Deu 28:31 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 restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you will have none to save you.

Deu 28:32 Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and yearn for them continually; but there will be nothing you can do.

Deu 28:33 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 continually.

Deu 28:34 You shall be driven mad by the sight of what you see.

Deu 28:35 The Lord 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 crown of your head.

Deu 28:36 The Lord will bring 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, wood and stone.

Deu 28:37 You shall become a horror, a proverb, and a taunt among all the people where the Lord drives you.

Deu 28:38 "You shall bring out much seed to the field but you will gather in little, for the locust will consume it.

Deu 28:39 You shall plant and cultivate vineyards, but you will neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm will devour them.

Deu 28:40 You shall have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off.

Deu 28:41 You shall have sons and daughters but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.

Deu 28:42 The cricket shall possess all your trees and the produce of your ground.

Deu 28:43 The alien who is among you shall rise above you higher and higher, but you will go down lower and lower.

Deu 28:44 He shall lend to you, but you will not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you will be the tail.

Deu 28:45 "So all these curses shall come on you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the Lord your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.

Deu 28:46 They shall become a sign and a wonder on you and your descendants forever.

Deu 28:47 "Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and a glad heart, for the abundance of all things;

Deu 28:48 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the lack of all things; and He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

Deu 28:49 "The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle swoops down, a nation whose language you shall not understand,

Deu 28:50 a nation of fierce countenance who will have no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young.

Deu 28:51 Moreover, it shall eat the offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed, who also leaves you no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the increase of your herd or the young of your flock until they have caused you to perish.

Deu 28:52 It shall besiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout your land, and it shall besiege you in all your towns throughout your land which the Lord your God has given you.

Deu 28:53 Then you shall eat the offspring of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters whom the Lord your God has given you, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress you.

Deu 28:54 The man who is refined and very delicate among you shall be hostile toward his brother and toward the wife he cherishes and toward the rest of his children who remain,

Deu 28:55 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 left, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress you in all your towns.

Deu 28:56 The refined and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and refinement, shall be hostile toward the husband she cherishes and toward her son and daughter,

Deu 28:57 and toward her afterbirth which issues from between her legs and toward her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of anything else, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress you in your towns.

Deu 28:58 "If you are not careful to observe all the words of this law which are written in this book, to fear this honored and awesome name, the Lord your God,

Deu 28:59 then the Lord will bring extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants, even severe and lasting plagues, and miserable and chronic sicknesses.

Deu 28:60 He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you.

Deu 28:61 Also every sickness and every plague which, not written in the book of this law, the Lord will bring on you until you are destroyed.

Deu 28:62 Then you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not obey the Lord your God.

Deu 28:63 It shall come about that as the Lord delighted over you to prosper you, and multiply you, so the Lord will delight over you to make you perish and destroy you; and you will be torn from the land where you are entering to possess it.

Deu 28:64 Moreover, the Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone, which you or your fathers have not known.

Deu 28:65 Among those nations you shall find no rest, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul.

Deu 28:66 So your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you will be in dread night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life.

Deu 28:67 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 for the sight of your eyes which you will see.

Deu 28:68 The Lord 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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Deu 29:1 These are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which He had made with them at Horeb.

Deu 29:2 And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, "You have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and all his servants and all his land;

Deu 29:3 the great trials which your eyes have seen, those great signs and wonders.

Deu 29:4 Yet to this day the Lord has not given you a heart to know, nor eyes to see, nor ears to hear.

Deu 29:5 I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandal has not worn out on your foot.

Deu 29:6 You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or strong drink, in order that you might know that I am the Lord your God.

Deu 29:7 When you reached this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out to meet us for battle, but we defeated them;

Deu 29:8 and we took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites.

Deu 29:9 So keep the words of this covenant to do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.

Deu 29:10 "You stand today, all of you, before the Lord your God: your chiefs, your tribes, your elders and your officers, even all the men of Israel,

Deu 29:11 your little ones, your wives, and the alien who is within your camps, from the one who chops your wood to the one who draws your water,

Deu 29:12 that you may enter into the covenant with the Lord your God, and into His oath which the Lord your God is making with you today,

Deu 29:13 in order that He may establish you today as His people and that He may be your God, just as He spoke to you and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Deu 29:14 "Now not with you alone am I making this covenant and this oath,

Deu 29:15 but both with those who stand here with us today in the presence of the Lord our God and with those who are not with us here today

Deu 29:16 (for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed;

Deu 29:17 moreover, you have seen their abominations and their idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold, which they had with them);

Deu 29:18 so that there will not be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations; that there will not be among you a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood.

Deu 29:19 It shall be when he hears the words of this curse, that he will boast, saying, 'I have peace though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart in order to destroy the watered land with the dry.'

Deu 29:20 The Lord shall never be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of the Lord and His jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse which is written in this book will rest on him, and the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven.

Deu 29:21 Then the Lord will single him out for adversity from all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant which are written in this book of the law.

Deu 29:22 "Now the generation to come, your sons who rise up after you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land, when they see the plagues of the land and the diseases with which the Lord has afflicted it, will say,

Deu 29:23 'All its land is brimstone and salt, a burning waste, unsown and unproductive, and no grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and in His wrath.'

Deu 29:24 All the nations will say, 'Why has the Lord done thus to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?'

Deu 29:25 Then men will say, 'Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.

Deu 29:26 They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they have not known and whom He had not allotted to them.

Deu 29:27 Therefore, the anger of the Lord burned against that land, to bring upon it every curse which is written in this book;

Deu 29:28 and the Lord uprooted them from their land in anger and in fury and in great wrath, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.'

Deu 29:29 "The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may observe all the words of this law.