Deuteronomy 28:12-23

New International Version

¹²The Lord will open the heavens, the storehouse^(A) of his bounty,^(B) to send rain^(C) on your land in season and to bless^(D) all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none.^(E) ¹³The Lord will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the Lord your God that I give you this day and carefully follow^(F) them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom.^(G) ¹⁴Do not turn aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left,^(H) following other gods and serving them.

Curses for Disobedience

¹⁵However, if you do not obey^(I) the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today,^(J) all these curses will come on you and overtake you:^(K)

¹⁶You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.^(L)

¹⁷Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.^(M)

¹⁸The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.^(N)

¹⁹You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.^(O)

²⁰The Lord will send on you curses,^(P) confusion and rebuke^(Q) in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin^(R) because of the evil^(S) you have done in forsaking him.^[a] ²¹The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess.^(T) ²²The Lord will strike you with wasting disease,^(U) with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought,^(V) with blight^(W) and mildew, which will plague^(X) you until you perish.^(Y) ²³The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron.^(Z)