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Deuteronomy 28:12-23
New International Version
Deuteronomy 28:12-23
New International Version
12 The 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) 13 The 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) 14 Do 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
15 However, 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)
16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.(L)
17 Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.(M)
18 The 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)
19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.(O)
20 The 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] 21 The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess.(T) 22 The 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) 23 The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron.(Z)
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 28:20 Hebrew me
Deuteronomy 28:12-23
King James Version
Deuteronomy 28:12-23
King James Version
12 The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
13 And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:
14 And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
20 The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.
21 The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
22 The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
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