Deuteronomy 28
World English Bible (WEB) • 68 verses
1It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the LORD your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
2All these blessings will come upon you, and overtake you, if you listen to the LORD your God’s voice.
3You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field.
RelatedGenesis 39:5 · Psalms 144:12-15 · Haggai 2:19 · Genesis 26:12 · Psalms 107:36-37 · Malachi 3:10-11
4You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.
RelatedProverbs 10:22 · Genesis 49:25 · Deuteronomy 7:13 · Psalms 128:3 · Leviticus 26:9 · Deuteronomy 28:11
5Your basket and your kneading trough shall be blessed.
6You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed when you go out.
7The LORD will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck before you. They will come out against you one way, and will flee before you seven ways.
Related2 Samuel 22:38-41 · Leviticus 26:7-8 · Psalms 89:23 · 2 Chronicles 32:21-22 · 2 Chronicles 19:4 · Joshua 8:22
8The LORD will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to. He will bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
RelatedDeuteronomy 15:10 · Leviticus 26:10 · Proverbs 3:9-10 · Psalms 133:3 · Malachi 3:10-11 · Leviticus 26:4-5
9The LORD will establish you for a 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.
RelatedDeuteronomy 7:6 · Exodus 19:5-6 · Deuteronomy 26:18-19 · Deuteronomy 13:17 · 1 Peter 2:9-11 · Titus 2:14
10All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the LORD’s name, and they will be afraid of you.
Related2 Chronicles 7:14 · Deuteronomy 11:25 · Numbers 6:27 · Jeremiah 33:9 · Daniel 9:18-19 · Exodus 12:33
11The LORD will grant you abundant prosperity in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.
RelatedDeuteronomy 30:9 · Proverbs 10:22 · Deuteronomy 28:4 · Leviticus 26:9 · Psalms 132:11 · Job 19:17
12The LORD will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow.
RelatedDeuteronomy 15:6 · Joel 2:23-24 · Deuteronomy 11:14 · Leviticus 26:4 · Deuteronomy 15:10 · Proverbs 22:7
13The LORD will make you the head, and not the tail. You will be above only, and you will not be beneath, if you listen to the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you today, to observe and to do,
14and shall not turn away from any of the words which I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
RelatedDeuteronomy 5:32 · Isaiah 30:21 · Deuteronomy 11:16 · Proverbs 4:26-27 · Deuteronomy 11:26-28 · 2 Kings 22:2
15But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the LORD your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come on you and overtake you.
RelatedMalachi 2:2 · Deuteronomy 28:2 · Lamentations 2:17 · Romans 2:8-9 · Daniel 9:11-13 · Leviticus 26:14-46
16You will be cursed in the city, and you will be cursed in the field.
RelatedMalachi 3:9-12 · Jeremiah 44:22 · Haggai 2:16-17 · Jeremiah 14:2-5 · Joel 2:3 · Isaiah 24:6-12
17Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.
18The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock will be cursed.
RelatedLeviticus 26:26 · Psalms 109:9-15 · Deuteronomy 5:9 · Leviticus 26:19-20 · Job 18:16-19 · Deuteronomy 28:4
19You will be cursed when you come in, and you will be cursed when you go out.
20The LORD will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.
21The LORD will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from off the land where you go in to possess it.
RelatedLeviticus 26:25 · Jeremiah 24:10 · Numbers 14:12 · Jeremiah 16:4 · Jeremiah 15:2 · Numbers 25:9
22The LORD will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with fiery heat, with the sword, with blight, and with mildew. They will pursue you until you perish.
23Your sky that is over your head will be bronze, and the earth that is under you will be iron.
24The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust. It will come down on you from the sky, until you are destroyed.
25The LORD will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them, and will flee seven ways before them. You will be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
RelatedIsaiah 30:17 · Ezekiel 23:46 · Jeremiah 24:9 · Deuteronomy 28:7 · Deuteronomy 32:30 · Leviticus 26:17
26Your dead bodies will be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there will be no one to frighten them away.
27The LORD will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with the tumors, with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed.
28The LORD will strike you with madness, with blindness, and with astonishment of heart.
Related2 Thessalonians 2:9-11 · Isaiah 19:11-17 · Jeremiah 4:9 · 1 Samuel 16:14 · Isaiah 6:9-10 · Acts 13:41
29You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you.
30You will betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. You will build a house, and you won’t dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, and not use its fruit.
31Your ox will be slain before your eyes, and you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be violently taken away from before your face, and will not be restored to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to save you.
32Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power in your hand.
33A nation which you don’t know will eat the fruit of your ground and all of your work. You will only be oppressed and crushed always,
RelatedJeremiah 5:17 · Leviticus 26:16 · Nehemiah 9:36-37 · Jeremiah 5:15 · Deuteronomy 28:51 · Jeremiah 4:17
34so that the sights that you see with your eyes will drive you mad.
RelatedRevelation 16:10-11 · Deuteronomy 28:28 · Deuteronomy 28:68 · Isaiah 33:14 · Jeremiah 25:15-16
35The LORD will strike you in the knees and in the legs with a sore boil, of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
36The LORD will bring you, and your king whom you will set over yourselves, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods of wood and stone.
RelatedJeremiah 16:13 · 2 Kings 25:11 · Deuteronomy 4:28 · 2 Chronicles 36:20 · 2 Chronicles 36:6 · 2 Chronicles 36:17
37You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the LORD will lead you away.
RelatedJeremiah 24:9 · Jeremiah 25:9 · 1 Kings 9:7-8 · 2 Chronicles 7:20 · Psalms 44:13-14 · Zechariah 8:13
38You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it.
39You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink of the wine, nor harvest, because worms will eat them.
40You will have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you won’t anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off.
41You will father sons and daughters, but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.
42Locusts will consume all of your trees and the fruit of your ground.
43The foreigner who is among you will mount up above you higher and higher, and you will come down lower and lower.
RelatedDeuteronomy 28:13 · 1 Samuel 13:19-23 · Judges 4:2-3 · Judges 2:3 · 2 Kings 17:20 · Judges 2:11-15
44He will lend to you, and you won’t lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.
45All these curses will come on you, and will pursue you and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you didn’t listen to the LORD your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you.
RelatedDeuteronomy 28:15 · Isaiah 1:20 · Lamentations 2:15-17 · Isaiah 65:14-15 · Jeremiah 7:22-25 · Jeremiah 24:9-10
46They will be for a sign and for a wonder to you and to your offspring forever.
RelatedIsaiah 8:18 · Ezekiel 14:8 · Deuteronomy 28:37 · Jeremiah 25:18 · Ezekiel 36:20 · Jeremiah 19:8
47Because you didn’t serve the LORD your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;
RelatedDeuteronomy 16:11 · Nehemiah 9:35-37 · Deuteronomy 12:7-12 · 1 Timothy 6:17-19 · Deuteronomy 32:13-15
48therefore you will serve your enemies whom the LORD sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.
RelatedJeremiah 28:13-14 · Jeremiah 44:17-18 · Nehemiah 9:35-37 · Jeremiah 44:22 · Lamentations 5:2-6 · Ezekiel 17:12
49The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies: a nation whose language you will not understand,
RelatedLamentations 4:19 · Jeremiah 49:22 · Jeremiah 48:40 · Jeremiah 5:15-17 · Hosea 8:1 · Ezekiel 17:3
50a nation of fierce facial expressions, that doesn’t respect the elderly, nor show favor to the young.
51They will eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed. They also won’t leave you grain, new wine, oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
RelatedDeuteronomy 28:33 · Isaiah 62:8 · Jeremiah 15:13 · Isaiah 1:7 · Leviticus 26:26 · Habakkuk 3:16-17
52They will besiege you in all your gates until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout all your land. They will besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land which the LORD your God has given you.
RelatedJeremiah 52:4-7 · Leviticus 26:25 · Zephaniah 1:15-16 · 2 Kings 25:1-4 · Jeremiah 21:4-7 · Jeremiah 10:18
53You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you.
RelatedLamentations 4:10 · Jeremiah 19:9 · Leviticus 26:29 · Deuteronomy 28:57 · 2 Kings 6:28-29 · Lamentations 2:20
54The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining,
RelatedDeuteronomy 15:9 · Deuteronomy 13:6 · Matthew 20:15 · Matthew 7:9-11 · Psalms 103:13 · Micah 7:5
55so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left to him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in all your gates.
56The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil toward the husband that she loves, toward her son, toward her daughter,
57toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of all things in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in your gates.
58If 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 your God,
RelatedIsaiah 42:8 · Leviticus 26:14-15 · Psalms 83:18 · Exodus 3:14-15 · Psalms 50:7 · Exodus 6:2-3
59then the LORD will make your plagues and the plagues of your offspring fearful, even great plagues, and of long duration, and severe sicknesses, and of long duration.
RelatedMark 13:19 · Daniel 9:12 · Deuteronomy 32:26 · Deuteronomy 32:22 · Lamentations 1:9 · Hosea 3:4
60He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they will cling to you.
61Also every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, the LORD will bring them on you until you are destroyed.
RelatedDeuteronomy 4:25-26
62You will be left few in number, even though you were as the stars of the sky for multitude, because you didn’t listen to the LORD your God’s voice.
RelatedDeuteronomy 10:22 · Nehemiah 9:23 · Deuteronomy 4:27 · Mark 13:20 · 2 Kings 24:14 · Romans 9:27-29
63It will happen that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so the LORD will rejoice over you to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You will be plucked from the land that you are going in to possess.
64The LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth. There you will serve other gods which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.
RelatedLeviticus 26:33 · Deuteronomy 4:27-28 · Deuteronomy 28:36 · Nehemiah 1:8 · Jeremiah 16:13 · Jeremiah 50:17
65Among these nations you will find no ease, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; but the LORD will give you there a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and pining of soul.
66Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be afraid night and day, and will have no assurance of your life.
67In the morning you will say, “I wish it were evening!” and at evening you will say, “I wish it were morning!” for the fear of your heart which you will fear, and for the sights which your eyes will see.
68The LORD will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I told you that you would never see it again. There you will offer yourselves to your enemies for male and female slaves, and nobody will buy you.
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