Deuteronomy:28:38-
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You shall carry much seed out to the field but gather little in ,
for the locust shall consume it .
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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 .
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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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Locusts shall consume all your trees and the produce of your land .
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The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you ,
and you shall come down lower and lower .
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He shall lend to you ,
but you shall not lend to him ;
he shall be the head ,
and you shall be the tail .
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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 the LORD your God ,
to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you .
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And they shall be upon you for a sign and a wonder ,
and on your descendants forever .
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Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart ,
for the abundance of everything ,
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therefore you shall serve your enemies ,
whom the LORD will send against you ,
in hunger ,
in thirst ,
in nakedness ,
and in need of everything ;
and He will put a yoke of iron on 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 will not understand ,
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a nation of fierce countenance ,
which does not respect the elderly nor show favor to the young .
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And they shall eat the increase of your livestock and the produce of your land ,
until you are destroyed ;
they shall not leave you grain or new wine or oil ,
or the increase of your cattle or the offspring of your flocks ,
until they have destroyed you .
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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 the LORD your God has given you .
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You shall eat the fruit of your own body ,
the flesh of your sons and your daughters whom the LORD your God has given you ,
in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you .
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The sensitive and very refined man among you will be hostile toward his brother ,
toward the wife of his bosom ,
and toward the rest of his children whom he leaves behind ,
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so that he will not give any of them the flesh of his children whom he will eat ,
because he has nothing left in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you at all your gates .
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The tender and delicate woman among you ,
who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her delicateness and sensitivity ,
will refuse to the husband of her bosom ,
and to her son and her daughter ,
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her placenta which comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears ;
for she will eat them secretly for lack of everything in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you at all your gates .
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If you do not carefully observe all the words of this law that are written in this book ,
that you may fear this glorious and awesome name ,
THE LORD YOUR GOD ,
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then the LORD will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary plagues--great and prolonged plagues--and serious and prolonged sicknesses .
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Moreover He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt ,
of which you were afraid ,
and they shall cling to you .
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Also every sickness and every plague ,
which is not written in this Book of the Law ,
will the LORD bring upon you until you are destroyed .
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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 the LORD your God .
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And it shall be ,
that just as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good and multiply you ,
so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you and bring you to nothing ;
and you shall be plucked from off the land which you go to possess .
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Then the LORD 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 .
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And among those nations you shall find no rest ,
nor shall the sole of your foot have a resting place ;
but there the LORD will give you a trembling heart ,
failing eyes ,
and anguish of soul .
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Your life shall hang in doubt before you ;
you shall fear day and night ,
and have no assurance of life .
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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 .
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And the LORD will take you back to Egypt in ships ,
by the way of which I said to you , "
You shall never see it again .'
And there you shall be offered for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves ,
but no one will buy you ."
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