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But if you will not obey the voice of the LORD your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day ,
then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you .
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Cursed shall you be in the city ,
and cursed shall you be in the field .
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Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough .
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Cursed shall be the fruit of your body ,
and the fruit of your ground ,
the increase of your cattle ,
and the young of your flock .
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Cursed shall you be when you come in ,
and cursed shall you be when you go out .
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The LORD will send upon you curses ,
confusion ,
and frustration ,
in all that you undertake to do ,
until you are destroyed and perish quickly ,
on account of the evil of your doings ,
because you have forsaken me .
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The LORD will make the pestilence cleave to you until he has consumed you off the land which you are entering to take possession of it .
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The LORD will smite you with consumption ,
and with fever ,
inflammation ,
and fiery heat ,
and with drought ,
and with blasting ,
and with mildew ;
they shall pursue you until you perish .
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And the heavens over your head shall be brass ,
and the earth under you shall be iron .
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The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust ;
from heaven it shall come down upon you until you are destroyed .
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The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies ;
you shall go out one way against them ,
and flee seven ways before them ;
and you shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth .
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And your dead body shall be food for all birds of the air ,
and for the beasts of the earth ;
and there shall be no one to frighten them away .
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The LORD will smite you with the boils of Egypt ,
and with the ulcers and the scurvy and the itch ,
of which you cannot be healed .
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The LORD will smite you with madness and blindness and confusion of mind ;
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and you shall grope at noonday ,
as the blind grope in darkness ,
and you shall not prosper in your ways ;
and you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually ,
and there shall be no one to help you .
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You shall betroth a wife ,
and another man shall lie with her ;
you shall build a house ,
and you shall not dwell in it ;
you shall plant a vineyard ,
and you shall not use the fruit of it .
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Your ox shall be slain before your eyes ,
and you shall not eat of it ;
your ass shall be violently taken away before your face ,
and shall not be restored to you ;
your sheep shall be given to your enemies ,
and there shall be no one to help you .
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Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people ,
while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all the day ;
and it shall not be in the power of your hand to prevent it .
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A nation which you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors ;
and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually ;
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so that you shall be driven mad by the sight which your eyes shall see .
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The LORD will smite you on the knees and on the legs with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed ,
from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head .
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The LORD will bring you ,
and your king whom you set over you ,
to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known ;
and there you shall serve other gods ,
of wood and stone .
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And you shall become a horror ,
a proverb ,
and a byword ,
among all the peoples where the LORD will lead you away .
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You shall carry much seed into the field ,
and shall gather little in ;
for the locust shall consume it .
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You shall plant vineyards and dress them ,
but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes ;
for the worm shall eat them .
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You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory ,
but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil ;
for your olives shall drop off .
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You shall beget sons and daughters ,
but they shall not be yours ;
for they shall go into captivity .
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All your trees and the fruit of your ground the locust shall possess .
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The sojourner who is among you shall mount above you higher and higher ;
and you shall come down lower and lower .
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He shall lend to you ,
and you shall not lend to him ;
he shall be the head ,
and you shall be the tail .
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All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you ,
till you are destroyed ,
because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God ,
to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you .
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They shall be upon you as a sign and a wonder ,
and upon your descendants for ever .
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Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart ,
by reason of the abundance of all things ,
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therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you ,
in hunger and thirst ,
in nakedness ,
and in want of all things ;
and he will put a yoke of iron upon your neck ,
until he has destroyed you .
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The LORD will bring a nation against you from afar ,
from the end of the earth ,
as swift as the eagle flies ,
a nation whose language you do not understand ,
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a nation of stern countenance ,
who shall not regard the person of the old or show favor to the young ,
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and shall eat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground ,
until you are destroyed ;
who also shall not leave you grain ,
wine ,
or oil ,
the increase of your cattle or the young of your flock ,
until they have caused you to perish .
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They shall besiege you in all your towns ,
until your high and fortified walls ,
in which you trusted ,
come down throughout all your land ;
and they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land ,
which the LORD your God has given you .
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And you shall eat the offspring of your own body ,
the flesh of your sons and daughters ,
whom the LORD your God has given you ,
in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you .
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The man who is the most tender and delicately bred among you will grudge food to his brother ,
to the wife of his bosom ,
and to the last of the children who remain to him ;
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so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating ,
because he has nothing left him ,
in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns .
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The most tender and delicately bred woman among you ,
who would not venture to set the sole of her foot upon the ground because she is so delicate and tender ,
will grudge to the husband of her bosom ,
to her son and to her daughter ,
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her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears ,
because she will eat them secretly ,
for want of all things ,
in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns .
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If you are not careful to do all the words of this law which are written in this book ,
that you may fear this glorious and awful name ,
the LORD your God ,
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then the LORD will bring on you and your offspring extraordinary afflictions ,
afflictions severe and lasting ,
and sicknesses grievous and lasting .
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And he will bring upon you again all the diseases of Egypt ,
which you were afraid of ;
and they shall cleave to you .
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Every sickness also ,
and every affliction which is not recorded in the book of this law ,
the LORD will bring upon you ,
until you are destroyed .
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Whereas you were as the stars of heaven for multitude ,
you shall be left few in number ;
because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God .
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And as the LORD took delight in doing you good and multiplying you ,
so the LORD will take delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you ;
and you shall be plucked off the land which you are entering to take possession of it .
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And the LORD will scatter you among all peoples ,
from one end of the earth to the other ;
and there you shall serve other gods ,
of wood and stone ,
which neither you nor your fathers have known .
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And among these nations you shall find no ease ,
and there shall be no rest for the sole of your foot ;
but the LORD will give you there a trembling heart ,
and failing eyes ,
and a languishing soul ;
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your life shall hang in doubt before you ;
night and day you shall be in dread ,
and have no assurance of your life .
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In the morning you shall say , `
Would it were evening !'
and at evening you shall say , `
Would it were morning !'
because of the dread which your heart shall fear ,
and the sights which your eyes shall see .
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And the LORD will bring you back in ships to Egypt ,
a journey which I promised that you should never make again ;
and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves ,
but no man will buy you ."