Deuteronomy Chapter 28

• Deuteronomy 28:1
  Deuteronomy.
• Deuteronomy 28:2
  It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the LORD your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that th...
• Deuteronomy 28:3
  All these blessings will come upon you, and overtake you, if you listen to the LORD your God’s voice.
• Deuteronomy 28:4
  You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field.
• Deuteronomy 28:5
  You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of ...
• Deuteronomy 28:6
  Your basket and your kneading trough shall be blessed.
• Deuteronomy 28:7
  You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed when you go out.
• Deuteronomy 28:8
  The LORD will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck before you. They will come out against you one way, and will flee before you sev...
• Deuteronomy 28:9
  The LORD will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to. He will bless you in the land which the LORD your God g...
• Deuteronomy 28:10
  The LORD will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and walk in...
• Deuteronomy 28:11
  All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the LORD’s name, and they will be afraid of you.
• Deuteronomy 28:12
  The LORD will grant you abundant prosperity in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land wh...
• Deuteronomy 28:13
  The LORD will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You will ...
• Deuteronomy 28:14
  The LORD will make you the head, and not the tail. You will be above only, and you will not be beneath, if you listen to the commandments of the LORD ...
• Deuteronomy 28:15
  and shall not turn away from any of the words which I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
• Deuteronomy 28:16
  But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the LORD your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command...
• Deuteronomy 28:17
  You will be cursed in the city, and you will be cursed in the field.
• Deuteronomy 28:18
  Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.
• Deuteronomy 28:19
  The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock will be cursed.
• Deuteronomy 28:20
  You will be cursed when you come in, and you will be cursed when you go out.
• Deuteronomy 28:21
  The LORD will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, be...
• Deuteronomy 28:22
  The LORD will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from off the land where you go in to possess it.
• Deuteronomy 28:23
  The LORD will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with fiery heat, with the sword, with blight, and with mildew. They will pur...
• Deuteronomy 28:24
  Your sky that is over your head will be bronze, and the earth that is under you will be iron.
• Deuteronomy 28:25
  The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust. It will come down on you from the sky, until you are destroyed.
• Deuteronomy 28:26
  The LORD will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them, and will flee seven ways before them. You will be toss...
• Deuteronomy 28:27
  Your dead bodies will be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there will be no one to frighten them away.
• Deuteronomy 28:28
  The LORD will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with the tumors, with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed.
• Deuteronomy 28:29
  The LORD will strike you with madness, with blindness, and with astonishment of heart.
• Deuteronomy 28:30
  You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and ...
• Deuteronomy 28:31
  You will betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. You will build a house, and you won’t dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, and not use...
• Deuteronomy 28:32
  Your ox will be slain before your eyes, and you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be violently taken away from before your face, and will not b...
• Deuteronomy 28:33
  Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power ...
• Deuteronomy 28:34
  A nation which you don’t know will eat the fruit of your ground and all of your work. You will only be oppressed and crushed always,
• Deuteronomy 28:35
  so that the sights that you see with your eyes will drive you mad.
• Deuteronomy 28:36
  The LORD will strike you in the knees and in the legs with a sore boil, of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your...
• Deuteronomy 28:37
  The LORD will bring you, and your king whom you will set over yourselves, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers. There you will se...
• Deuteronomy 28:38
  You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the LORD will lead you away.
• Deuteronomy 28:39
  You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it.
• Deuteronomy 28:40
  You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink of the wine, nor harvest, because worms will eat them.
• Deuteronomy 28:41
  You will have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you won’t anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off.
• Deuteronomy 28:42
  You will father sons and daughters, but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.
• Deuteronomy 28:43
  Locusts will consume all of your trees and the fruit of your ground.
• Deuteronomy 28:44
  The foreigner who is among you will mount up above you higher and higher, and you will come down lower and lower.
• Deuteronomy 28:45
  He will lend to you, and you won’t lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.
• Deuteronomy 28:46
  All these curses will come on you, and will pursue you and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you didn’t listen to the LORD your God’s voi...
• Deuteronomy 28:47
  They will be for a sign and for a wonder to you and to your offspring forever.
• Deuteronomy 28:48
  Because you didn’t serve the LORD your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;
• Deuteronomy 28:49
  therefore you will serve your enemies whom the LORD sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an i...
• Deuteronomy 28:50
  The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies: a nation whose language you will not understand...
• Deuteronomy 28:51
  a nation of fierce facial expressions, that doesn’t respect the elderly, nor show favor to the young.
• Deuteronomy 28:52
  They will eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed. They also won’t leave you grain, new wine, oil, the i...
• Deuteronomy 28:53
  They will besiege you in all your gates until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout all your land. They will besiege...
• Deuteronomy 28:54
  You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and in the d...
• Deuteronomy 28:55
  The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves, and toward the remnant of ...
• Deuteronomy 28:56
  so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left to him, in the siege and in the dis...
• Deuteronomy 28:57
  The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will...
• Deuteronomy 28:58
  toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of all thing...
• Deuteronomy 28:59
  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...
• Deuteronomy 28:60
  then the LORD will make your plagues and the plagues of your offspring fearful, even great plagues, and of long duration, and severe sicknesses, and o...
• Deuteronomy 28:61
  He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they will cling to you.
• Deuteronomy 28:62
  Also every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, the LORD will bring them on you until you are destroyed.
• Deuteronomy 28:63
  You will be left few in number, even though you were as the stars of the sky for multitude, because you didn’t listen to the LORD your God’s voice.
• Deuteronomy 28:64
  It will happen that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so the LORD will rejoice over you to cause you to perish and to...
• Deuteronomy 28:65
  The LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth. There you will serve other gods which you have n...
• Deuteronomy 28:66
  Among these nations you will find no ease, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; but the LORD will give you there a trembling heart, fa...
• Deuteronomy 28:67
  Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be afraid night and day, and will have no assurance of your life.
• Deuteronomy 28:68
  In the morning you will say, “I wish it were evening!” and at evening you will say, “I wish it were morning!” for the fear of your heart which you wil...
• Deuteronomy 28:69
  The LORD will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I told you that you would never see it again. There you will offer yourselves...