Deuteronomy:28

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* »Carefully obey Jehovah your God . Faithfully follow all his commandments that I give you today . If you do this Jehovah your God will place you high above all the other nations in the world . * »These are all the blessings that will come to you and stay close to you because you obey Jehovah your God : * »Jehovah will bless your towns and your fields . * »Jehovah will bless you with many children , with abundant crops , and with many cattle and sheep . * »Jehovah will bless your grain crops and the food you prepare from them . * »Jehovah will make you successful in your daily work . * »Jehovah will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck before you : they shall come out against you one-way , and shall flee before you seven ways . * »Jehovah will command the blessing upon you in your barns and in all that you put your hand to , and He will bless you in the land Jehovah your God gives you . * »Jehovah will establish you as a holy people to himself . He swore this to you , if you obey the commandments of Jehovah your God and walk in His ways . * »All the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of Jehovah , and they will be afraid of you . * »Jehovah will make you abound in prosperity , in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your animals and in the produce of your ground , the land that Jehovah swore to your fathers to give you . * »Jehovah will open for you his good storehouse . The skies will give rain to your land in due season . It will bless all the work of your hand . You will lend to many nations , but you will not borrow . * »Jehovah will make you the head and not the tail , and you only will be above , and you will not be underneath . If you listen to the commandments of Jehovah your God , which I charge you today , to observe them carefully , * and do not turn aside from any of the words I command you today , to the right or to the left , to go after other gods to serve them . * »If you do not obey Jehovah your God , to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes with which I charge you today , that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you : * »Cursed will you be in the city , and cursed will you be in the country . * »Your basket and your kneading bowl will be cursed . * »Cursed will be the offspring of your body and the produce of your ground , the increase of your herd and the young of your flock . * »Jehovah will curse everything you do ! * »If you do evil and reject Jehovah , he will bring on you trouble , confusion , and rebuke in everything you do . Soon you will be quickly and completely destroyed . * »He will plague you with disease after disease on you until there is not one of you left in the land . * »Jehovah will strike you with infectious diseases , with swelling and fever . He will send drought and scorching winds to destroy your crops . These disasters will be with you until you die . * »The sky above will look like copper and the ground below will be as hard as iron . * Jehovah will send dust storms and sandstorms on you from the sky until you are destroyed . * »Jehovah will cause you to be stricken before your enemies . You will go out one way against them , and flee seven ways from them . You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth . * »Your body will be food to all birds of the air , and to the beasts of the earth . And no man shall frighten them away . * »Jehovah will strike you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and with the scab and with the itch , from which you cannot be healed . * »You will become insane and go blind . Jehovah will make you so confused , * that even in bright sunshine you will have to feel your way around like a blind person . You will tell day from night ! For the rest of your life , people will beat and rob you . No one will be able to stop them . * »A man will be engaged to a woman , but before they can get married , enemy soldiers will rape her . Some of you will build houses , but never get to live in them . If you plant a vineyard , you will not be around long enough to enjoy the first harvest . * »Your cattle will be killed while you watch . You will not get to eat any of the meat . Your donkeys and sheep will be stolen . No one will be around to force your enemies to give them back . * »Your sons and daughters will be dragged off to a foreign country . And you will stand there helpless . Even if you watch for them until you go blind , you will never see them again . * »A foreign nation will take all the crops that you have worked so hard to grow . You will receive nothing but constant oppression and harsh treatment . * »You will lose your mind because of all the suffering . * »Jehovah will strike you on the knees and legs with sore boils . From the sole of your foot to the crown of your head they will not heal . * »Jehovah will bring you and your king , whom you set over you , to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known . There you will serve other gods made of wood and stone . * »You will become a thing of revulsion . All the nations where Jehovah will send you will make an example of you and laugh at you . * »You will plant many crops in your fields , but harvest little for locusts will destroy your crops . * »You will plant vineyards and tend them but will not drink the wine from them . Worms will eat them . * »You will have olive trees throughout all your coasts , but you shall not anoint with the oil , for your olive shall drop off its fruit . * »Even your infant sons and daughters will be taken as prisoners of war . * »Locusts will take over all your trees and the fruit of your land . * »The alien who is living among you will be lifted up higher and higher over you , while you go down lower and lower . * »They will be able to make loans to you , but you won 't be able to make loans to them . They will be the head , and you will be the tail . * »All these disasters will come on you . They will be with you until you are destroyed . This is because you did not obey Jehovah your God and keep all the laws that he gave you . * »Everyone will look at you and your descendants and realize that Jehovah has placed you under a curse for a very long time . * »You did not serve Jehovah your God with joyfulness , and with gladness of heart , for the abundance of all things . * »You will serve your enemies whom Jehovah will send against you , in hunger , in thirst , in nakedness , and in the lack of all things . He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you . * »Jehovah will bring a nation against you from far away , from the end of the earth , as the eagle swoops down , a nation whose language you will not understand , * a nation of fierce countenance who will have no respect for the old , nor show favor to the young . * »They will eat the offspring of your animals and the crops from your fields until you are destroyed . They will leave you no grain , no new wine , no olive oil , no calves from your herds , and no lambs or kids from your flocks . They will continue to do this until you are completely desolate . * »They will blockade all your cities until the high , fortified walls you trust come down everywhere in your land . They will blockade all the cities everywhere in the land that Jehovah your God is giving you . * »Because of the hardships your enemies will make you suffer during the blockade , you will eat the flesh of your own children , the sons and daughters , whom Jehovah your God has given you . * »The kindest and most sensitive man among you will become stingy toward his brother , the wife he loves , and the children he still has left . * »He will give none of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating . It will be all that he has left . These are hardships your enemies will make you suffer during the blockade of all your cities . * »The kindest and most sensitive woman among you , so sensitive and tender that she would not even step on an ant , will become stingy toward the husband she loves or toward her own son or daughter . * »She will not share with them the afterbirth from her body and the children she gives birth to . She will secretly eat them out of dire necessity . These are hardships your enemies will make you suffer during the blockade of your cities . * »You might not faithfully obey every word of the teachings that are written in this book . You might not respect this glorious and awe inspiring name : JEHOVAH your God . * »If so , Jehovah will strike you and your descendants with unimaginable plagues . They will be terrible continuing plagues . They will be severe and lingering diseases . * »He will bring all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded . They will cling to you . * »Jehovah will also bring you every kind of sickness and plague not written in this Book of the Law . They will continue until you are dead . * »You were at one time as numerous as the stars in the sky . But only a few of you will be left . This is because you did not obey Jehovah your God . * »Jehovah was very glad to make you prosperous and numerous . Now Jehovah will be more than glad to destroy you and wipe you out . You will be torn out of the land you are about to enter and possess . * »Jehovah will scatter you among all the people of the world . He will scatter you from one end of the earth to the other . There you will serve gods made of wood and stone that neither you nor your ancestors ever knew . * »You will find no peace among those nations . There will be no place to call your own . There Jehovah will give you an unsettled mind , failing eyesight , and despair . * »Your life will always be in danger . Day and night you will be filled with terror . You will live in constant fear of death . * »Your hearts will pound with fear at everything you see . Every morning you will wish for evening . Every evening you will wish for morning . * »Jehovah will send you back to Egypt in ships , even though he said that you would never have to go there again . There you will try to sell yourselves to your enemies as slaves . But no one will want to buy you .

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