28:1 And it shall come to pass, if thou wilt
indeed hear the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and do all these
commands, which I charge thee this day, that the Lord thy God shall set thee
on high above all the nations of the earth;
28:2 and all these blessings shall come upon thee, and shall find thee. If
thou wilt indeed hear the voice of the Lord thy God,
28:3 blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the
field.
28:4 Blessed shall be the offspring of thy body, and the fruits of thy land,
and the herds of thy oxen, and the flocks of thy sheep.
28:5 Blessed shall be thy barns, and thy stores.
28:6 Blessed shalt thou be in thy coming in, and blessed shalt thou be in
thy going out.
28:7 The Lord deliver tine enemies that withstand thee utterly broken before
thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and they shall flee
seven ways from before thee.
28:8 The Lord send upon thee his blessing in thy barns, and on all on which
thou shalt put thine hand, in the land which the Lord thy God gives thee.
28:9 The Lord raise thee up for himself a holy people, as he sware to thy
fathers; if thou wilt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and walk in all
his ways.
28:10 And all the nations of the earth shall see thee, that the name of the
Lord is called upon thee, and they shall stand in awe of thee.
28:11 And the Lord thy God shall multiply thee for good in the offspring of
thy body, and in the offspring of thy cattle, and in the fruits of thy land,
on thy land which the Lord sware to thy fathers to give to thee.
28:12 May the Lord open to thee his good treasure, the heaven, to give rain
to thy land in season: may he bless all the works of thy hands: so shalt
thou lend to many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt rule
over many nations, but they shall not rule over thee.
28:13 The Lord thy God make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt
then be above and thou shalt not be below, if thou wilt hearken to the voice
of the Lord thy God, in all things that I charge thee this day to observe.
28:14 Thou shalt not turn aside from any of the commandments, which I charge
thee this day, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to
serve them.
28:15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken to the voice of
the Lord thy God, to observe all his commandments, as many as I charge thee
this day, then all these curses shall come on thee, and overtake thee.
28:16 Cursed [shalt] thou [be] in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the
field.
28:17 Cursed shall be thy barns and thy stores.
28:18 Cursed shall be the offspring of thy body, and the fruits of thy land,
the herds of thine oxen, and the flocks of thy sheep.
28:19 Cursed shalt thou be in thy coming in, and cursed shalt thou be in hy
going out.
28:20 The Lord send upon thee want, and famine, and consumption of all
things on which thou shalt put thy hand, until he shall have utterly
destroyed thee, and until he shall have consumed thee quickly because of
thine evil devices, because thou hast forsaken me.
28:21 The Lord cause the pestilence to cleave to thee, until he shall have
consumed thee off the land into which thou goest to inherit it.
28:22 The Lord smite thee with distress, and fever, and cold, and
inflammation, and blighting, and paleness, and they shall pursue thee until
they have destroyed thee.
28:23 And thou shalt have over thine head a sky of brass, and the earth
under thee shall be iron.
28:24 The Lord thy God make the rain of thy land dust; and dust shall come
down from heaven, until it shall have destroyed thee, and until it shall
have quickly consumed thee.
28:25 The Lord give thee up for slaughter before thine enemies: thou shalt
go out against them one way, and flee from their face seven ways; and thou
shalt be a dispersion in all the kingdoms of the earth.
28:26 And your dead men shall be food to the birds of the sky, and to the
beasts of the earth; and there shall be none to scare them away.
28:27 The Lord smite thee with the botch of Egypt in the seat, and with a
malignant scab, and itch, so that thou canst not be healed.
28:28 The Lord smite thee with insanity, and blindness, and astonishment of
mind.
28:29 And thou shalt grope at mid-day, as a blind man would grope in the
darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways; and then thou shalt be
unjustly treated, and plundered continually, and there shall be no helper.
28:30 thou shalt take a wife, and another man shall have her; thou shalt
build a house, and thou shalt not dwell in it; thou shalt plant a vineyard,
and shalt not gather the grapes of it.
28:31 Thy calf [shall be] slain before thee, and thou shalt not eat of it;
thine ass shall be violently taken away from thee, and shall not be restored
to thee: thy sheep shall be given to thine enemies, and thou shalt have no
helper.
28:32 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given to another nation, and thine
eyes wasting away shall look for them: thine hand shall have no strength.
28:33 A nation which thou knowest not shall eat the produce of thy land, and
all thy labours; and thou shalt be injured and crushed always.
28:34 And thou shalt be distracted, because of the sights of thine eyes
which thou shalt see.
28:35 The Lord smite thee with an evil sore, on the knees and the legs, so
that thou shalt not be able to be healed from the sole of thy foot to the
crown of thy head.
28:36 The Lord carry away thee and thy princes, whom thou shalt set over
thee, to a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers know; and thou shalt
there serve other gods, wood and stone.
28:37 An thou shalt be there for a wonder, and a parable, and a tale, among
all the nations, to which the Lord thy God shall carry thee away.
28:38 Thou shalt carry forth much seed into the field, and thou shalt bring
in little, because the locust shall devour it.
28:39 Thou shalt plant a vineyard, and dress it, and shalt not drink the
wine, neither shalt thou delight thyself with it, because the worm shall
devour it.
28:40 Thou shalt have olive trees in all thy borders, and thou shalt not
anoint thee with oil, because thine olive shall utterly cast [its fruit].
28:41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, and they shall not be [thine],
for they shall depart into captivity.
28:42 All thy trees and the fruits of thy land shall the blight consume.
28:43 The stranger that is within thee shall get up very high, and thou
shalt come down very low.
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.
28:45 And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and
shall overtake thee, until he shall have consumed thee, and until he shall
have destroyed thee; because thou didst not hearken to the voice of the Lord
thy God, to keep his commands, and his ordinances which he has commanded
thee.
28:46 And [these things] shall be signs in thee, and wonders among thy seed
for ever;
28:47 because thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with gladness and a good
heart, because of the abundance of all things.
28:48 And thou shalt serve thine enemies, which the Lord will send forth
against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in the want of
all things; and thou shalt wear upon thy neck a yoke of iron until he shall
have destroyed thee.
28:49 The Lord shall bring upon thee a nation from the extremity of the
earth, like the swift flying of an eagle, a nation whose voice thou shalt
not understand;
28:50 a nation bold in countenance, which shall not respect the person of
the aged and shall not pity the young.
28:51 And it shall eat up the young of thy cattle, and the fruits of thy
land, so as not to leave to thee corn, wine, oil, the herds of thine oxen,
and the flocks of thy sheep, until it shall have destroyed thee;
28:52 and have utterly crushed thee in thy cities, until the high and strong
walls be destroyed, in which thou trustest, in all thy land; and it shall
afflict thee in thy cities, which he has given to thee.
28:53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thy body, the flesh of thy sons and of
thy daughters, all that he has given thee, in thy straitness and thy
affliction, with which thine enemy shall afflict thee.
28:54 He that is tender and very delicate within thee shall look with an
evil eye upon his brother, and the wife in his bosom, and the children that
are left, which may have been left to him;
28:55 so as [not] to give to one of them of the flesh of his children, whom
he shall eat, because of his having nothing left him in thy straitness, and
in thy affliction, with which thine enemies shall afflict thee in all thy
cities.
28:56 And she that is tender and delicate among you, whose foot has not
assayed to go upon the earth for delicacy and tenderness, shall look with an
evil eye on her husband in her bosom, and her son and her daughter,
28:57 and her offspring that comes out between her feet, and the child which
she shall bear; for she shall eat them because of the want of all things,
secretly in thy straitness, and in thy affliction, with which thine enemy
shall afflict thee in thy cities.
28:58 If thou wilt not hearken to do all the words of this law, which have
been written in this book, to fear this glorious and wonderful name, the
Lord thy God;
28:59 then the Lord shall magnify thy plagues, and the plagues of thy seed,
great and wonderful plagues, and evil and abiding diseases.
28:60 And he shall bring upon thee all the evil pain of Egypt, of which thou
wast afraid, and they shall cleave to thee.
28:61 And the Lord shall bring upon thee every sickness, and every plague
that is not written, and every one that is written in the book of this law,
until he shall have destroyed thee.
28:62 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of
the sky in multitude; because thou didst not hearken to the voice of the
Lord thy God.
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 ye shall be quickly removed from the land, into which ye go to inherit
it.
28:64 And the Lord thy God shall scatter thee among all nations, from one
end of the earth to the other; and thou shalt there serve other gods, wood
and stone, which thou hast not known, nor thy fathers.
28:65 Moreover among those nations he will not give thee quiet, neither by
any means shall the sole of thy foot have rest; and the Lord shall give thee
there another and a misgiving heart, and failing eyes, and a wasting soul.
28:66 And thy life shall be in suspense before thine eyes; and thou shalt be
afraid by day and by night, and thou shalt have no assurance of thy life.
28:67 In the morning thou shalt say, Would it were evening! and in the
evening thou shalt say, Would it were morning! for the fear of thine heart
with which thou shalt fear, and for the sights of thine eyes which thou
shalt see.
28:68 And the Lord shall bring thee back to Egypt in ships, by the way of
which I said, Thou shalt not see it again; and ye shall be sold there to
your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and none shall buy you. |
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:
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.
28:3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the
field.
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.
28:5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
28:6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be
when thou goest out.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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:
28:16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the
field.
28:17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
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.
28:19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be
when thou goest out.
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.
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.
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.
28:23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth
that is under thee shall be iron.
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.
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.
28:26 And thy carcass shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the
beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.
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.
28:28 The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and
astonishment of heart:
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.
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.
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.
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.
28:33 The fruit of thy land, and all thy labors, shall a nation which thou
knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:
28:34 So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt
see.
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.
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.
28:37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among
all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
28:38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but
little in; for the locust shall consume it.
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.
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.
28:41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them;
for they shall go into captivity.
28:42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.
28:43 The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high;
and thou shalt come down very low.
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.
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:
28:46 And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy
seed for ever.
28:47 Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with
gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
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.
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;
28:50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of
the old, nor show favor to the young:
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.
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.
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:
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:
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.
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,
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.
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;
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.
28:60 Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou
wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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:
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.
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. |