Deuteronomy 28

And it will be, if listening you listen to the voice of God your God, to keep doing all his commandments that I am commanding you today, then God your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

And all these blessings will come upon you and reach you, if you listen to the voice of God your God. \*

Blessed you {will be} in the city, and blessed you {will be} in the field.

Blessed {will be} the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock. \*

Blessed {will be} your basket and your kneading trough.

Blessed you {will be} in your coming in and blessed you {will be} in your going out. \*

God shall let your enemies who rise up against you be struck down to your faces; they will come out against you one way but will flee to your faces seven ways.

God will command for you the blessing in your barns and in all the sending out of your hand, and he will bless you in the land that God your God is giving to you. \*

God will establish you as his sanctified people, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of God your God and walk in his ways.

And all the peoples of the earth will see that the name of God is called upon you, and they will be afraid of you. \*

And God will make you abound in prosperity in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground, in the land that God swore to your fathers to give to you.

God will open to you his treasure, the good of the heavens, to give rain {for} your land at the appointed time, and to bless all the work of your hand, and you will lend to many nations, but you, you will not borrow. \*

And God will set you as head, and not as tail, and you will be only above, and you will not be beneath, if you listen to the commandments of God your God that I am commanding you today, to keep and do,

and you do not turn away from any of the words that I am commanding you today, right or left, going after other gods to serve them. \*

And it will happen, if you do not listen to the voice of God your God, to keep doing all his commandments and his statutes that I am commanding you today, then all these curses will come upon you and reach you. \*

Cursed you {will be} in the city and cursed you {will be} in the field.

Cursed {will be} your basket and your kneading trough. \*

Cursed {will be} the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.

Cursed you {will be} in your coming in and cursed you {will be} in your going out. \*

God will send against you curses, confusion, and rebukes in all the sending out of your hand that you will do until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly from the faces of your wicked deeds by which you will have forsaken me.

God will make the plague cling to you until he has finished you from off the land which you are going into to possess it. \*

God will strike {you} with emaciation and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with a sword and with scorching winds and with mildew. And they will pursue you until you perish. \*

And your skies that {are} over your head shall be bronze, and the earth that {is} under you {shall be} iron.

God will allow the rain of your land {to be} powder and dust; from the heavens it will come down on you until you are destroyed. \*

God shall let you be struck down to the faces of your enemies; you will go out one way against him but will flee to his face seven ways. And you will become a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

And your corpse will be as food for all the birds of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth, and there will be none to startle {them}. \*

God will smite {you} with the boils of Egypt and with ulcers and with rash and with itch, from which you are not able to be healed.

God will smite {you} with madness and with blindness and with confusion of heart.

And you will be groping about at noon like the blind grope in the darkness, and you will not succeed in your ways. And you shall again be oppressed and robbed all of the days, and there will be no deliverer. \*

You will betroth a woman, but another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it; you will plant a vineyard but not use it.

Your ox {will be} slain before your eyes, but you will not eat from it. Your donkey will be robbed from to your face and will not be returned to you. Your sheep {will be} given to your enemies, and there will be no deliverer for you. \*

Your sons and your daughters {will be} given to other peoples, and your eyes will look on and will long for them all the day, and your hand will have no strength. \*

A nation that you do not know will eat the fruit of your land and all your labor, and you will be only oppressed and crushed all the days.

And you will become insane from the view of your eyes that you will see.

God will strike {you} with bad boils on the knees and on the legs that you will not be able to heal, from the bottom of your foot and to the top of your head. \*

God will lead you and your king that you will raise up over yourself to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers, and there you will serve other gods, {of} wood and stone.

And you will become a horror, a proverb, and a taunt among all the peoples where God will drive you there. \*

You will take much seed out {into} the field, but will gather little seed in, for the locusts will consume it.

You will plant vineyards and cultivate {them}, but you will not drink the wine nor harvest, for the worms will eat it. \*

You will have olive trees within all your territory, but you will not grease yourself {with} the oil, for your olives will become detached.

You will bear sons and daughters, but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity. \*

All your trees and the fruit of your ground—the crickets will take possession.

The foreigner who {is} among you will rise up above you higher {and} higher, and you will descend lower {and} lower.

He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him; he will be the head, and you will be the tail. \*

And all these curses will come upon you and pursue you and reach you until you are destroyed because you did not listen to the voice of God your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you.

And they will be on you as signs and as wonders, and on your seed until forever. \*

Because you did not serve God your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart from the abundance of everything,

so you will serve your enemies that God will send against you: in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness and in lacking everything. And he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he destroys you. \*

God will lift up a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, like an eagle flies, a nation whose language you do not understand;

a nation fierce of face, which does not lift up a face for the elder and does not favor the young.

And it will eat the fruit of your cattle and the fruit of your land until you are destroyed, which will leave for you no grain, new wine, or oil, young of your cattle or young of your flock, until it causes you to perish. \*

And it will besiege you within all your gates until your high and fortified walls, in which you had trusted, come down in all your land. And it will besiege you within all your gates, in all your land that God your God has given to you.

And you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and your daughters, whom God your God gave to you, in the siege and in the distress when your enemies oppress you. \*

The tender man among you and the very delicate, his eye will do wrong against his brother and against the wife of his bosom and against the remainder of his children who remain,

without giving to any of them from the flesh of his children that he will eat, since nothing remains for himself {at} all in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will oppress you within all your gates. \*

The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not attempt to set the bottom of her foot on the ground because of delicateness and tenderness, her eye will do wrong against the husband of her bosom and against her son and against her daughter

and against her afterbirth coming out from between her legs and against the children whom she will bear, for she will secretly eat them {for} lack of anything else, in the siege and in the distress which your enemy will set upon you within your gates. \*

If you do not keep doing all the words of this law that are written in this book, to fear this glorious and feared name, God your God,

then God will cause extraordinary afflictions—your plagues and the plagues of your seed {will be} great and enduring plagues and great and enduring sicknesses. \*

And he will bring back to you all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid of their faces, and they will cling to you.

Also every sickness and every plague that {is} not written in the scroll of this law, God will cause them to rise against you until you are destroyed.

And you shall remain few in number, although you were like the stars of the heavens in number, because you did not listen to the voice of God your God. \*

And it will happen, as God rejoiced over you in doing you good, and in multiplying you, so God will rejoice over you in causing you to perish and in destroying you. And you will be torn away from the land which you are going into to possess it.

And God will scatter you among all the peoples from {one} end of the earth and to the {other} end of the earth, and there you will serve other gods of wood and stone that you have not known, you or your fathers. \*

And among these nations you will not have peace, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot. And there God will give you a trembling heart and failing eyes and a mourning spirit.

And it will happen, your life will hang before you, and you will fear, night and day, and you will have no certainty in your life. \*

In the morning you will say, ‘Who gives evening?’ and in the evening you will say, ‘Who gives morning?’ because of the fear in your hearts that you fear and the view of your eyes that you will see.

And God will bring you back {to} Egypt by ships, by the route which I had said to you, ‘You will not continue to see it again.’ And there you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male slaves and female slaves, but there will be no buyers.” \*