Deuteronomy 28:45-68


45 “So all these curses shall come on you and pursue you and overtake you auntil you are destroyed, because you would not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.
46 And they shall become aa sign and a wonder on you and your seed forever.
47 “aBecause you did not serve Yahweh your God with gladness and a merry heart—because of the abundance of all things,
48 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom Yahweh will send against you, ain hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the lack of all things; and He bwill put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
49 “aYahweh will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, bas the eagle swoops down, a nation whose tongue you shall not understand,
50 a nation of fierce countenance who will ahave no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young. 51 Moreover, it shall eat the 1offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed, who also will not allow grain, new wine, or oil, and the increase of your herd or the young of your flock to remain for you until they have caused you to perish. 52 aAnd it shall besiege you in all your gates until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout your land, and it shall besiege you in all your gates throughout your land which Yahweh your God has given you. 53 aThen you shall eat the 1offspring of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters whom Yahweh your God has given you, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will 2oppress you. 54 The man who is 1refined and very delicate among you 2shall be hostile toward his brother and toward the wife 3he cherishes and toward the rest of his children who remain, 55 so that he will not give even one of them any of the flesh of his children which he will eat, since he has nothing else remaining, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will 1oppress you in all your gates. 56 aThe 1refined and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and 2refinement, 3shall be hostile toward the husband 4she cherishes and toward her son and daughter, 57 and toward her afterbirth which issues from between her 1legs and toward her children whom she bears; for ashe will eat them secretly for lack of anything else, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will 2oppress you in your gates.
58 “If you are not careful to do all the words of this law which are written in this book, to 1afear this glorious and fearsome bname, Yahweh your God,
59 then Yahweh will bring wondrous plagues on you and plagues on those who are your seed, even great and enduring plagues, and miserable and enduring sicknesses. 60 aAnd He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you. 61 Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, Yahweh will bring on you auntil you are destroyed. 62 Then you shall remain few in number, awhereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God. 63 And it will be that as Yahweh adelighted over you to prosper you and multiply you, so Yahweh will bdelight over you to make you perish and destroy you; and you will be ctorn from the land where you are entering to possess it. 64 Moreover, Yahweh will ascatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; and there you shall bserve other gods, wood and stone, which you or your fathers have not known. 65 aMoreover, among those nations you shall find no relief, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there bYahweh will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul. 66 So your life shall 1hang in doubt before you; and you will be in dread night and day and shall not have any faith in your life. 67 aIn the morning you shall say, ‘Would that it were evening!’ And at evening you shall say, ‘Would that it were morning!’ because of the dread of your heart which you dread, and because of the sight of your eyes which you will see. 68 And Yahweh will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way about which I spoke to you, ‘You will never see it again!’ And there you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”
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