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| 1And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: | 1"Indeed, if you diligently obey the LORD your God to carry out all his commands that I'm giving you today, then the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. |
| 2And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. | 2Moreover, all these blessings will come upon you in abundance, if you obey the LORD your God: |
| 3Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. | 3"Blessed will you be in the city and blessed will you be in the country. |
| 4Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. | 4"Blessed will your children be, as well as the produce of your land, the offspring of your beasts and cattle, and the offspring of your flock. |
| 5Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. | 5"Blessed will be your grain basket and your kneading bowl. |
| 6Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out. | 6"Blessed will you be in your comings and goings." |
| 7The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways. | 7"The LORD will make your enemies, who rise against you and attack from one direction, to flee from you in seven directions. |
| 8The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. | 8"The LORD will send blessings for you with regard to your barns and everything you undertake. Indeed, he will bless you in the land that the LORD your God is about to give you. |
| 9The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways. | 9"The LORD will assign you to be a holy people for himself, just as he promised you, as long as you keep his commands and walk in his ways. |
| 10And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee. | 10"Then all the people of the earth will observe that the name of the LORD is proclaimed among you, and they will fear you. |
| 11And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee. | 11"The LORD will show his abundant goodness with respect to your children, the offspring of your animals, and the produce of your farmland that he promised your ancestors he would give you. |
| 12The 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. | 12"The LORD will open his rich treasury, the heavens, to release rain upon your land in season and bless everything you undertake so that you'll lend to many nations but won't borrow. |
| 13And 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: | 13"The LORD your God will make you the head and not the tail—placing you above and not beneath—if you obey the commands of the LORD your God that I'm giving you today to keep and observe. |
| 14And 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. | 14Do not deviate from any of his commands that I'm giving you today—neither to the right nor the left—to follow and serve other gods." |
| 15But 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: | 15"But if you don't obey the LORD your God and faithfully carry out all his commands and statutes that I'm giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you and overwhelm you. |
| 16Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. | 16"Cursed will you be in the city and cursed will you be in the country. |
| 17Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. | 17"Cursed will be your grain basket and your kneading bowl. |
| 18Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. | 18"Cursed will your children be, as well as the produce of your land, the offspring of your beasts and cattle, and the offspring of your flock. |
| 19Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out. | 19"Cursed will you be in your comings and goings." |
| 20The 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. | 20"The LORD will send the curse among you, will confuse you, and will rebuke you in everything you undertake until you are destroyed and perish quickly because of your evil deeds, since you will have forsaken him. |
| 21The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it. | 21The LORD will cause you to be ill with long-lasting diseases until you are wiped out from the land that you are entering to possess. |
| 22The 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. | 22The LORD will afflict you with tuberculosis, fever, inflammation, high fever, drought, blight, and mildew. These will attack you until you are completely destroyed. |
| 23And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. | 23The sky above your head will become bronze while the ground beneath you will become iron. |
| 24The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed. | 24The LORD will change the rain on your land to powder and dust. It will come down from the sky until you are exterminated." |
| 25The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth. | 25"The LORD will cause you to be defeated by your enemies. You'll go out against them in one direction, but you'll flee from them in seven directions. Consequently, you'll be in a state of great terror throughout all the kingdoms of the earth. |
| 26And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away. | 26Your dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the earth, with no one to chase them away. |
| 27The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed. | 27"The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors, skin disease, and festering rashes, and none of them will be curable. |
| 28The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart: | 28The LORD will afflict you with insanity, blindness, and mental confusion. |
| 29And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee. | 29As a result, you'll wander aimlessly in broad daylight just as a blind person wanders in darkness. You won't prosper in life. Instead you'll be oppressed and plundered all day long, with no deliverer. |
| 30Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof. | 30You'll be engaged to a woman, but another man will rape her. You'll build a house but you won't live in it. You'll plant a vineyard but you won't harvest it. |
| 31Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them. | 31Your ox will be slaughtered in front of you, and you won't be able to eat it. Your donkey will be stolen from you while you watch and won't be returned to you. Your flock of sheep will be handed to your enemies and there will be no deliverer. |
| 32Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand. | 32Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you watch, and you won't be able to approach them at all, and you'll be powerless to help. |
| 33The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway: | 33"A people whom you don't know will devour what your land and labor produces. You'll be only oppressed and discouraged continuously |
| 34So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. | 34until you are driven insane from what your eyes will see. |
| 35The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head. | 35"The LORD will inflict you with incurable boils on your knees and legs, and from the sole of your foot to the top of your head. |
| 36The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone. | 36"The LORD will banish you and your king whom you will appoint over you to go to a nation that neither you nor your ancestors have known, and there you'll serve other gods of wood and stone. |
| 37And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee. | 37You'll become a desolation and a proverb, and you'll be mocked among the people where the LORD will drive you." |
| 38Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it. | 38"You'll plant many seeds in a field, but your harvest will be small because the locust will consume it. |
| 39Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them. | 39You'll plant a vineyard, but you won't drink wine or harvest any grapes, because worms will consume it. |
| 40Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit. | 40You'll have olive trees throughout your territory, but you won't be able to anoint yourself with oil, because the olives will drop off the trees. |
| 41Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity. | 41You'll bear sons and daughters, but they won't belong to you, because they'll go into captivity. |
| 42All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume. | 42Whirling locusts will consume every tree and the produce of your land. |
| 43The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low. | 43The foreigner in your midst will be elevated higher and higher over you, while you are brought low little by little. |
| 44He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail. | 44He will lend to you, but you won't lend to him. He'll be the head, but you'll be the tail. |
| 45Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee: | 45All these curses will come upon you and will overwhelm you until you are exterminated, because you didn't obey the LORD your God to keep his commands and statutes, which he had commanded you. |
| 46And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever. | 46These curses will serve as a sign and wonder for you and your descendants as long as you live." |
| 47Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; | 47"Because you didn't serve the LORD your God joyfully and wholeheartedly, despite the abundance of everything you have, |
| 48Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee. | 48you'll serve your enemies whom the LORD your God will send against you. You will serve in famine and in drought, in nakedness, and in lack of everything. They'll set a yoke of iron upon your neck until they have exterminated you. |
| 49The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; | 49"The LORD will raise a distant nation against you from the other side of the earth. Swooping down like a vulture, |
| 50A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young: | 50it will be a nation whose language you don't understand, whose stern appearance neither shows regard nor extends grace to anyone whether old or young. |
| 51And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee. | 51Its army will consume the offspring of your animals and the produce of your soil until you are exterminated. They will leave you without your grain, wine, oil, the increase of your cattle, and the lamb of your flock, until you are completely destroyed. |
| 52And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee. | 52They'll besiege all your cities until your high and fortified walls in which you have trusted collapse throughout the land. Indeed, they will besiege all your cities, which the LORD your God gave you." |
| 53And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee: | 53"You'll eat your own children —the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God gave you—on account of the siege and the distress with which your enemy will oppress you. |
| 54So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave: | 54Even the compassionate man among you—the very sensitive one—will look with evil in his eyes toward his brother, his beloved wife, and his surviving sons, whom he spared. |
| 55So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates. | 55He will withhold from each of them the flesh of his sons that he is eating—since there will be nothing left—on account of the siege and distress with which your enemy will oppress you in all your cities. |
| 56The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, | 56The most tender and sensitive lady among you, who doesn't venture to touch the soles of her feet to the ground on account of her daintiness, will look with hostility in her eyes against her beloved husband, her sons, and her daughters. |
| 57And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates. | 57She will eat her afterbirth and her newborn children secretly—since there will be nothing left—on account of the siege and distress with which your enemy will oppress you in your cities." |
| 58If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD; | 58"If you aren't careful to observe all the words of this Law that have been written in this book, instructing you to fear this glorious and awesome name of the LORD your God, |
| 59Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. | 59then he will inflict extraordinary plagues on you and your children, great and lasting plagues, and severe and lasting illnesses. |
| 60Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee. | 60He will inflict on you all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they won't be curable. |
| 61Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed. | 61Moreover, the LORD will inflict you with illnesses and plagues that were not written in this Book of the Law, until you are exterminated. |
| 62And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God. | 62Because you will not have obeyed the LORD your God, very few of you will be left—instead of you being as numerous as the stars in the heavens. |
| 63And it shall come to pass, that 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 bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it. | 63Just as the LORD delighted to prosper and increase you, so now the LORD will delight to destroy, exterminate, and banish you from the land that you are about to enter to possess." |
| 64And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone. | 64"He'll scatter you among the peoples from one end of the earth to the other, and there you'll serve other gods made of wood and stones, which neither you nor your ancestors have known. |
| 65And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind: | 65Among those nations you'll have no rest. There'll be no resting place for the soles of your feet. Instead, the LORD will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a despairing spirit. |
| 66And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life: | 66You'll cling to life, being fearful by both night and day, with no assurance of survival. |
| 67In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. | 67In the morning you'll say, 'I wish it were evening.' Yet in the evening you'll say, "I wish it were morning," on account of what you'll dread and what you'll see. |
| 68And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you. | 68Finally, the LORD will bring you back to Egypt by ship, a place that I said you'll never see again. There you'll try to sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you." |
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