Chapter 28
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And it will be, if you do not hear the voice of the LORD your God, to keep and to do all his commandments and his statutes which I am commanding you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you.
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Cursed are you in the city, and cursed are you in the field.
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Cursed be your basket and your kneading trough.
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Cursed be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, the firstborn of your herds and the offspring of your flocks.
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You are cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.
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The LORD will send against you the curse, the confusion, and the rebuke, in every undertaking of your hand which you undertake, until your destruction and until your perishing, quickly, because of the evil of your deeds by which you have forsaken me.
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The LORD will cling to you until he has finished you off from the land that you are going there to possess.
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The LORD will strike you with consumption, fever, inflammation, heat, sword, blight, and mildew, and they will pursue you until you are destroyed.
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And the heavens that are over your head will be bronze, and the earth that is under you iron.
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The LORD will make the rain of your land dust and soil; from the heavens it will come down upon you until your destruction.
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The LORD will give you a defeat before your enemies. You will go out to them in one way, and you will flee before them in seven ways, and you will be an outrage to all the kingdoms of the earth.
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And your carcass will be food for all the birds of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them off.
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The LORD will strike you with the boil of Egypt and with tumors and with scab and with itch, from which you will not be able to be healed.
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The LORD will strike you with madness and with blindness and with confusion of heart.
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You will grope at noon as the blind man gropes in darkness, and you will not succeed in your ways. You will be only oppressed and robbed all the days, and there will be no savior.
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You will marry a woman, and another man will lie with her; you will build a house and not dwell in it; you will plant a vineyard and not profane it.
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Your ox is slaughtered before your eyes, and you will not eat any of it. Your donkey is taken from you, and it will not be returned to you. Your sheep are given to your enemies, and there is no one to save you.
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Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, and your eyes will see and wear out looking toward them all the day, and there will be no power in your hand.
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Fruit of your ground and all your toil, a people that you did not know will eat, and you will be only oppressed and crushed all the days.
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You will be driven mad by the sight of your eyes—what you will see.
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The LORD will afflict you with an evil boil on the knees and legs, which you will not be able to heal, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
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The LORD will take you and your king whom you set up over you to a nation that you have not known, you and your fathers, and you will serve there other gods, wood and stone.
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And you will become a name, a mashal, and a byword among all the peoples where the LORD will lead you.
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You will bring much seed out of the field, and you will gather little because the locust will finish it.
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You will plant vineyards and serve them, but you will not drink the wine nor gather it, for the worm will eat it.
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You will have olives throughout all your territory, but you will not anoint yourself with oil, for your olives will cast off.
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You will bear sons and daughters, but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.
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The grasshopper will possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground.
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The stranger who is in your midst will ascend over you, higher and higher, and you will descend lower and lower.
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He will lend to you, and you will not borrow; he will be the head, and you will be the tail.
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And all these curses will come upon you, and they will pursue you and overtake you until your destruction, 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 will be upon you as a sign and as a wonder, and upon your seed forever.
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because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and with a good heart from the abundance of all
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and you shall serve your enemies whom he will send against you, in famine and in thirst and in nakedness and in lack of everything, and he will give an iron yoke on your neck until they destroy you.
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The LORD will lift up against you a nation from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle swoops down—a nation whose tongue you will not hear.
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A nation fierce of face, which will not respect an elder, and a youth it will not favor.
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And it will eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your land until your destruction, which it will not leave for you: grain, new wine, and fresh oil, the firstborn of your cattle and the increase of your flock, until they destroy you.
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And he will distress you in all your gates until your high and fortified cities come down, in which you trust throughout your land, and he will distress you in all your gates throughout your land which the LORD your God has given you.
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You shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy distresses you.
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The man who is tender among you and very pampered—his eye will be evil against his brother and against the wife of his bosom and against the remnant of his sons whom he will leave.
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to give to one of them from the flesh of his sons which he will eat, without leaving anything to him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in all your gates.
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The tender and pampered one among you, who has not tested the sole of her foot on the earth from pampering and tenderness—her eye will be evil against the man of her bosom and against her son and against her daughter.
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and her afterbirth that comes out from between her legs and her children that she will bear—for she will eat them—for lack of all things in secret in the siege and in the distress that your enemy will straiten you in your gates.
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If you do not keep and do all the words of this Torah, the written ones in this book, to fear this honored and awesome name, the LORD your God.
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And the LORD will make extraordinary your blows and the blows of your seed, blows great and persistent and sicknesses evil and persistent.
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And he will bring back upon you all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of because of them, and they will cling to you.
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The LORD will also bring on you every disease and every plague not written in the book of this law, until you are destroyed.
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And you will be left few in number, even though you were like the stars of the heavens for multitude, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
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And it will be just as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you, so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you and to exterminate you, and you will be uprooted from upon the ground which you are going there to possess.
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And the LORD will scatter you among all the peoples from the end of the earth to the end of the earth, and there you will serve other gods that you have not known, gods of wood and stone, you and your fathers.
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And among those nations you will not find rest, and there will not be rest for the sole of your foot, and the LORD will give you there a trembling heart and wasting of eyes and pining of soul.
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Your lives will hang in doubt before you, and you will fear night and day, and you will not be assured of your life.
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In the morning you will say, "Who will give evening?" and in the evening you will say, "Who will give morning?" from the fear of your heart which you will fear and from the sight of your eyes which you will see.
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And the LORD will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said to you, "You shall not add again to see it," and you will sell yourselves there to your enemies as slaves and handmaids, but there is no buyer.