Deuteronomy:28

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* And it shall come to pass , if you shall hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD your God , to observe and to do all his commandments which I command you this day , that the LORD your God will set you on high above all nations of the earth : * And all these blessings shall come on you , and overtake you , if you shall hearken unto the voice of the LORD your God . * Blessed shall you be in the city , and blessed shall you be in the field . * Blessed shall be the fruit of your body , and the fruit of your ground , and the fruit of your cattle , the increase of your cattle , and the flocks of your sheep . * Blessed shall be your basket and your store . * Blessed shall you be when you come in , and blessed shall you be when you go out . * The LORD shall cause yours enemies that rise up against you to be smitten before your face : they shall come out against you one way , and flee before you seven ways . * The LORD shall command the blessing upon you in your storehouses , and in all that you set yours hand unto ; and he shall bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you . * The LORD shall establish you an holy people unto himself , as he has sworn unto you , if you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God , and walk in his ways . * And all people of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the LORD ; and they shall be afraid of you . * And the LORD shall make you abundant in goods , in the fruit of your body , and in the fruit of your cattle , and in the fruit of your ground , in the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers to give you . * The LORD shall open unto you his good treasure , the heaven to give the rain unto your land in his season , and to bless all the work of yours hand : and you shall lend unto many nations , and you shall not borrow . * And the LORD shall make you the head , and not the tail ; and you shall be above only , and you shall not be beneath ; if that you hearken unto the commandments of the LORD your God , which I command you this day , to observe and to do them : * And you shall not go aside from any of the words which I command you this day , to the right hand , or to the left , to go after other gods to serve them . * But it shall come to pass , if you will not hearken unto the voice of the LORD your God , to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day ; 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 store . * Cursed shall be the fruit of your body , and the fruit of your land , the increase of your cattle , and the flocks of your sheep . * Cursed shall you be when you come in , and cursed shall you be when you go out . * The LORD shall send upon you cursing , vexation , and rebuke , in all that you set yours hand unto in order to do , until you be destroyed , and until you perish quickly ; because of the wickedness of your doings , whereby you have forsaken me . * The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto you , until he have consumed you from off the land , where you go to possess it . * The LORD shall strike you 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 you until you perish . * And your heaven that is over your head shall be brass , and the earth that is under you shall be iron . * The LORD shall make the rain of your land powder and dust : from heaven shall it come down upon you , until you be destroyed . * The LORD shall cause you to be smitten before yours enemies : you shall go out one way against them , and flee seven ways before them : and shall be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth . * And your carcass shall be food unto all fowls of the air , and unto the beasts of the earth , and no man shall frighten them away . * The LORD will strike you with the botch of Egypt , and with the emerods , and with the scab , and with the itch , whereof you can not be healed . * The LORD shall strike you with madness , and blindness , and astonishment of heart : * And you shall grope at noonday , as the blind gropes in darkness , and you shall not prosper in your ways : and you shall be only oppressed and spoiled evermore , and no man shall save you . * You shall betroth a wife , and another man shall lie with her : you shall build an house , and you shall not dwell therein : you shall plant a vineyard , and shall not gather the grapes thereof . * Yours ox shall be slain before yours eyes , and you shall not eat thereof : yours ass shall be violently taken away from before your face , and shall not be restored to you : your sheep shall be given unto yours enemies , and you shall have none to rescue them . * Your sons and your daughters shall be given unto another people , and yours eyes shall look , and fail with longing for them all the day long ; and there shall be no might in yours hand . * The fruit of your land , and all your labours , shall a nation which you know not eat up ; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always : * So that you shall be mad for the sight of yours eyes which you shall see . * The LORD shall strike you in the knees , and in the legs , with a sore botch that cannot be healed , from the sole of your foot unto the top of your head . * The LORD shall bring you , and your king which you shall set over you , unto a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known ; and there shall you serve other gods , wood and stone . * And you shall become an astonishment , a proverb , and a byword , among all nations where the LORD shall lead you . * You shall carry much seed out into the field , and shall gather but little in ; for the locust shall consume it . * You shall plant vineyards , and dress them , but shall neither drink of the wine , nor gather the grapes ; for the worms shall eat them . * You shall have olive trees throughout all your coasts , but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil ; for yours olive shall cast his fruit . * You shall brought forth sons and daughters , but you shall not enjoy them ; for they shall go into captivity . * All your trees and fruit of your land shall the locust consume . * The stranger that is within you shall get up above you very high ; and you shall come down very low . * He shall lend to you , and 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 shall pursue you , and overtake you , till you be destroyed ; because you hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD your God , to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you : * And they shall be upon you for a sign and for a wonder , and upon your seed for ever . * Because you served not the LORD your God with joyfulness , and with gladness of heart , for the abundance of all things ; * Therefore shall you serve yours enemies which the LORD shall send against you , in hunger , and in thirst , and in nakedness , and in lack of all things : and he shall put a yoke of iron upon your neck , until he have destroyed you . * The LORD shall bring a nation against you from far , from the end of the earth , as swift as the eagle flies ; a nation whose tongue you shall not understand ; * A nation of fierce countenance , which shall not regard the person of the old , nor show favour to the young : * And he shall eat the fruit of your cattle , and the fruit of your land , until you be destroyed : which also shall not leave you either corn , wine , or oil , or the increase of your cattle , or flocks of your sheep , until he have destroyed you . * And he shall besiege you in all your gates , until your high and fenced walls come down , wherein you trusted , throughout all your land : and he shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land , which the LORD your God has given you . * And you shall eat the fruit of yours own body , the flesh of your sons and of your daughters , which the LORD your God has given you , in the siege , and in the strictness , wherewith yours enemies shall distress you : * 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 : * So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat : because he has nothing left him in the siege , and in the strictness , wherewith yours enemies shall distress you in all your gates . * 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 , * And toward her young one that comes out from between her feet , and toward her children which she shall bear : for she shall eat them for lack of all things secretly in the siege and strictness , wherewith yours enemy shall distress you in your gates . * If 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 ; * Then the LORD will make your plagues wonderful , and the plagues of your seed , even great plagues , and of long continuance , and sore sicknesses , and of long continuance . * Moreover he will bring upon you all the diseases of Egypt , which you were afraid of ; and they shall cleave unto you . * Also every sickness , and every plague , which is not written in the book of this law , them will the LORD bring upon you , until you be destroyed . * And all of you shall be left few in number , whereas all of you were as the stars of heaven for multitude ; because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God . * 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 nothing ; and all of you shall be plucked from off the land where you go to possess it . * And the LORD shall scatter you among all people , from the one end of the earth even unto the other ; and there you shall serve other gods , which neither you nor your fathers have known , even wood and stone . * And among these nations shall you find no ease , neither shall the sole of your foot have rest : but the LORD shall give you there a trembling heart , and failing of eyes , and sorrow of mind : * And your life shall hang in doubt before you ; and you shall fear day and night , and shall have none assurance of your life : * In the morning you shall say , Would God it were even ! and at even you shall say , Would God it were morning ! for the fear of yours heart wherewith you shall fear , and for the sight of yours eyes which you shall see . * And the LORD shall bring you into Egypt again with ships , by the way whereof I spoke unto you , You shall see it no more again : and there all of you shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen , and no man shall buy you .

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