Deuteronomy:28:15-68

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* But it shall come to pass , if you do not obey the voice of Jehovah your God , to take heed to do all His commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today , that all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you : * Cursed shall you be in the city , and cursed shall you be in the field . * Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl . * Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land , the offspring of your cattle and the increase of your flocks . * Cursed shall you be when you come in , and cursed shall you be when you go out . * Jehovah will send upon you cursing , turmoil , and rebuke in all that you set your hand to do , until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly , because of the evil of your doings in which you have forsaken Me . * Jehovah will make the plague cling to you until He has consumed you from off the land which you are going in to possess . * Jehovah will strike you with consumption , with fever , with inflammation , with burning fever , with the sword , with blight , and with mildew ; they shall pursue you until you perish . * And your heavens over your head shall be bronze , and the earth under you shall be iron . * Jehovah will make the rain of your land into dust and powder ; from the heavens it shall come down upon you until you are destroyed . * Jehovah will cause you to be stricken before your enemies ; you shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them ; and you shall be an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth . * Your carcasses shall be food for all the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth , and no one shall frighten them away . * Jehovah will strike you with the boils of Egypt , with tumors , with the scab , and with the itch , from which you cannot be healed . * Jehovah will strike you with madness and blindness and bewilderment of heart . * And you shall grope at noonday , as a blind man gropes in darkness ; you shall not prosper in your ways ; you shall be only oppressed and plundered all your days , and no one shall deliver you . * You shall betroth a wife , but another man shall lie with her ; you shall build a house , but you shall not dwell in it ; you shall plant a vineyard , but shall not begin to eat . * Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes , but you shall not eat of it ; your donkey shall be violently taken away from before you , and shall not be restored to you ; your sheep shall be given to your enemies , and you shall have no one to rescue them . * Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people , and your eyes shall look and fail with longing for them all day long ; and there shall be no might in your hand . * A nation whom you have not known shall eat the fruit of your land and your produce , and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually . * Thus you shall be driven mad because of the sight which your eyes see . * Jehovah will strike you in the knees and on the legs with severe boils which cannot be healed , and from the sole of your foot to the top of your head . * Jehovah will bring you and the 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 . * And you shall become an astonishment , a proverb , and a byword among all the nations where Jehovah shall drive you . * You shall carry much seed out to the field but gather little in , for the locust shall consume it . * You shall plant vineyards and tend them , but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes ; for the worms shall eat them . * You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory , but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil ; for your olives shall drop off . * You shall beget sons and daughters , but they shall not be yours ; for they shall go into captivity . * Locusts shall dispossess all your trees and the produce of your land . * The sojourners among you shall rise higher and higher above you , and you shall come down lower and lower . * He shall lend to you , but you shall not lend to him ; he shall be the head , and you shall be the tail . * Moreover all these curses shall come upon you and pursue and overtake you , until you are destroyed , because you did not obey the voice of Jehovah your God , to keep His commandments and His statutes which He has commanded you . * And they shall be upon you for a sign and a wonder , and upon your seed perpetually . * Because you did not serve Jehovah your God with joy and gladness of heart , for the abundance of all things , * therefore you shall serve your enemies , whom Jehovah will send against you , in hunger , in thirst , in nakedness , and in need of everything ; and He will put a yoke of iron upon your neck until He has destroyed you . * Jehovah will bring a nation against you from afar , from the ends of the earth , as the eagle flies , a nation whose language you will not understand , * a nation of fierce countenance , which does not regard the face of the old nor show favor to the young . * And they shall eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your land , until you are destroyed ; they shall not leave you grain or new wine or oil , or the offspring of your cattle or the increase of your flocks , until they have destroyed you . * They shall besiege you at all your gates until your high and fortified walls , in which you trust , come down throughout all your land ; and they shall besiege you at all your gates throughout all your land which Jehovah your God has given to you . * You shall eat the fruit of your own womb , the flesh of your sons and your daughters whom Jehovah your God has given to you , in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemies shall distress you . * The eye of the man who is tender and very delicate shall quiver with hostility toward his brother , toward the wife of his bosom , and toward the rest of his children whom he leaves behind , * so that he will not give to any of them the flesh of his children whom he shall eat , because he has nothing left in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you in all your gates . * The eye of the tender and dainty woman among you , who would not have ventured to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her delicateness and tenderness , will quiver with hostility toward the husband of her bosom , and toward her son and her daughter , * and toward her afterbirth which comes forth from between her feet and her children whom she bears ; for she shall eat them secretly for lack of everything in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you in all your gates . * If you do not take heed to do all the Words of this Law that are written in this book , to fear this glorious and awesome name , JEHOVAH GOD , * then Jehovah will bring upon you and your seed extraordinary plagues ; great and long lasting plagues ; and evil long lasting sicknesses . * Moreover He will bring back upon you all the diseases of Egypt , of which you were afraid , and they shall cleave to you . * Also every sickness and every plague , which is not written in this Book of the Law , will Jehovah bring upon you to destroy you . * You shall be left few in number , whereas you were as the stars of heaven in multitude , because you would not obey the voice of Jehovah your God . * And it shall be , that just as Jehovah has rejoiced over you to do you good and multiply you , so Jehovah will rejoice over you to destroy you and annihilate you ; and you shall be torn away from off the land which you are going in to possess . * And Jehovah will scatter you among all peoples , from one end of the earth to the other , and there you shall serve other gods , which neither you nor your fathers have known ; wood and stone . * And among those nations you shall find no rest , nor shall the sole of your foot have a resting place ; but there Jehovah shall give you a trembling heart , failing eyes , and fainting soul . * Your life shall hang in doubt before you ; you shall fear day and night , and have no assurance of life . * In the morning you shall say , Oh , that it were evening ! And at evening you shall say , Oh , that it were morning ! because of the fear which terrifies your heart , and because of the sight which your eyes see . * And Jehovah will take you back to Egypt in ships , by the way of which I had said to you , You shall never see it again . And there you shall have been sold to your enemies as male and female slaves , but no one will buy you .

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