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