Deuteronomy:28:15-68

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* 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 . * Cursed shalt thou be in the city , and cursed shalt thou be in the field . * Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading –trough . * Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body , and the fruit of thy land , the increase of thy cattle , and the young of the flocks . * Cursed shalt thou be at thy coming in , and cursed shalt thou be at thy going out . * The Lord will send out against thee misfortune , confusion , and failure , in all the occupation of thy hand which thou mayest engage in ; until thou be destroyed , and until thou perish quickly ; because of the wickedness of thy doings , that thou hast forsaken me . * The Lord will cause the pestilence to cleave unto thee , until it have consumed thee from off the land , whither thou goest to possess it . * The Lord will smite thee with consumption , and with fever , and with inflammation , and with extreme burning , and with drought , and with blasting , and with mildew ; and they shall pursue thee until thou be lost . * And thy heavens that are over thy head shall be copper , and the earth that is under thee shall be iron . * The Lord will give as the rain of thy land powder and dust : from heaven shall it come down upon thee , until thou be destroyed . * The Lord will cause thee to be smitten before thy enemies : on one way shalt thou go out against them , and on seven ways shalt thou flee before them ; and thou shalt become a horror unto all the kingdoms of the earth . * And thy carcass shall become food unto all the fowls of the heavens , and unto the beasts of the earth , but with no one to scare them away . * The Lord will smite thee with the inflammatory disease of Egypt , and with the hemorrhoids , and with the scab , and with the itch , whereof thou shalt not be able to be healed . * The Lord will sinite thee with madness , and with blindness , and with confusion of heart ; * And thou shalt grope about at noonday , as the blind gropeth about in the darkness , and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways ; and thou shalt be only oppressed and robbed all the days , but with no one to help . * A wife wilt thou betroth , and another man shall lie with her ; a house wilt thou build , and thou shalt not dwell therein ; a vineyard wilt thou plant , and thou shalt not redeem it . * Thy ox shall be slain before thy eyes , and thou shalt not eat thereof ; thy ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face , and shall not be brought back to thee ; thy sheep shall be given unto thy enemies , without any one to help thee . * Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people , and thy eyes shall look on , and fail with longing for them all the day long ; but without any power in thy hand . * The fruit of thy soil , and all thy exertion , shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up ; and thou shalt only be oppressed and crushed all the days . * And thou shalt become mad from the sight of thy eyes which thou wilt see . * The Lord will smite thee with a sore inflammation upon the knees , and upon the legs , of which thou shalt not be able to be healed , from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head . * The Lord will drive thee , and thy king whom thou wilt set over thee , unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known ; and thou wilt serve there strange gods , of wood and stone . * And thou shalt become an astonishment , a proverb , and a by –word , among all the nations whither the Lord will lead thee . * Much seed wilt thou carry out into the field , yet but little shalt thou gather in ; for the locust shall consume it . * Vineyards wilt thou plant and dress ; but wine shalt thou not drink nor lay up ; for the worms shall eat them . * Olive –trees wilt thou have throughout all thy borders ; but with the oil shalt thou not anoint thyself ; for thy olive shall cast the fruit . * Sons and daughters wilt thou beget ; but they shall not remain thine : for they shall go into captivity . * All thy trees and the fruit of thy land shall the cricket strip bare . * The stranger that is in the midst of thee shall get up above thee higher and higher ; but thou shalt come down lower and lower ; * He shall lend to thee , and thou shalt not lend to him ; he shall become the head , and thou shalt become the tail . * And there shall come upon thee all these curses , and they shall pursue thee , and overtake thee , till thou be destroyed ; because thou didst not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God , to keep his commandments and his statutes which he hath commanded thee ; * And they shall remain on thee for a sign and for a token , and on thy seed , for ever . * For the reason that thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with joyfulness , and with gladness of heart , while there was an abundance of all things ; * Therefore shalt thou serve thy enemies whom the Lord will send out against thee , in hunger , and in thirst , and in nakedness , and in want of every thing ; and they will put a yoke of iron upon thy neck , until they have destroyed thee . * The Lord will bring up against thee a nation from afar , from the end of the earth , as the eagle rusheth down ; a nation whose tongue thou wilt not understand ; * A nation of a fierce countenance , that will not have respect for the old , nor show favor to the young ; * And it will eat the fruit of thy cattle , and the fruit of thy soil , until thou be destroyed ; so that it will not leave unto thee corn , wine , or oil , the increase of thy cattle , or the young of thy flocks , until it have ruined thee . * And it will besiege thee in all thy gates , until thy high and strong walls come down , wherein thou trustest , throughout all thy land ; and it will besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land , which the Lord thy God hath given thee . * And thou shalt eat the fruit of thy own body , the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters , whom the Lord thy God hath given thee , in the siege , and in the straitness , wherewith thy enemy will distress thee . * The man that is the most tender among thee , and who is very delicate ,––his eye shall look enviously toward his brother , and toward the wife of his bosom , and toward the remnant of his children whom he may spare ; * So as not to give to any of them of the flesh of his children which he may eat ; because there is nothing left unto him , in the siege , and in the straitness , wherewith thy enemy will distress thee in all thy gates . * The woman , the most tender among thee , and the most delicate , who hath never adventured to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness ,––her eye shall look enviously toward the husband of her bosom , and toward her son , and toward her daughter , * And toward her young one that is come from between her feet , and toward her children which she hath born ; for she shall eat them for want of every thing secretly , in the siege and in the straitness , wherewith thy enemy will distress thee in thy gates . * If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law which are written in this book ; to fear this glorious and fearful name , the Lord thy God : * Then will the Lord render peculiar thy plagues , and the plagues of thy seed , plagues great , and of long continuance , and sicknesses sore , and of long continuance . * And he will bring back upon thee all the diseases of Egypt , of which thou wast afraid ; and they shall cleave unto thee . * Also every sickness , and every plague which is not written in the book of this law , will the Lord bring upon thee , until thou be destroyed . * And ye shall be left but few in number , instead of that ye once were as the stars of heaven for multitude ; because thou didst not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God . * And it shall come to pass , that , as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good , and to multiply you , so will the Lord rejoice over you to bring you to nought , and to destroy you ; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it . * And the Lord will scatter thee among all the nations , from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth ; and there wilt thou serve strange gods , which neither thou nor thy fathers have known , even wood and stone . * And among these nations shalt thou find no ease , and there shall not be any rest for the sole of thy foot : and the Lord will give thee there a trembling heart , and a failing of eyes , and a faintness of soul . * And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee ; and thou shalt be in dread day and night , and thou shalt have no confidence of thy life ; * In the morning thou wilt say , Who would but grant that it were only evening ! and at evening thou wilt say , Who would but grant that it were only morning ! from the dread of thy heart which thou wilt experience , and from the sight of thy eyes which thou wilt see . * And the Lord will bring thee back to Egypt in ships , by the way whereof I have spoken unto thee , Thou shalt no more see it again : and there will ye offer yourselves for sale unto your enemies for bond –men and bond –women , without any one to buy you .

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