Deuteronomy 28:1-40 ▼

1 “ And it shall come to pass, if you will listen carefully to the voice of YHWH your God, to observe carefully to do all His commandments that I command you today, that YHWH your God will set you high above all nations of the earth.

2 And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you if you listen to the voice of YHWH your God.

3 Blessed are you in the city, and blessed are you in the field.

4 Blessed is the fruit of your womb, and the fruit of your ground, and the increase of your herd, the increase of your cattle, and the increase of your flock.

5 Blessed is your basket and your kneading bowl.

6 Blessed are you in your coming in, and blessed are you in your going out.

7 YHWH will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face; in one way they shall come out against you, and in seven ways they shall flee before you.

8 YHWH will command with you the blessing in your barns and in every putting forth of your hand, and He will bless you in the land that YHWH your God is giving to you.

9 YHWH will establish you to Himself as a holy people, as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of YHWH your God and walk in His ways.

10 And all the peoples of the earth shall see that the name of YHWH is called upon you, and they shall be afraid of you.

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

12 YHWH will open to you His good treasure, the heavens, to give rain to your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. And you shall lend to many nations, and you shall not borrow.

13 And YHWH will make you the head and not the tail, and you shall be only above, and be not beneath, if you listen to the commandments of YHWH your God, which I am commanding you today to keep and do.

14 And you shall not turn aside from any of the words that I am commanding you? this day, to the right or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

15 And it shall come to pass, if you do not listen to the voice of YHWH your God, to observe carefully to do all His commandments and His statutes that I am commanding you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you.

16 Cursed are you in the city, and cursed are you in the field.

17 Cursed is your basket and your kneading bowl.

18 Cursed is the fruit of your womb, and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.

19 Cursed are you in your coming in, and cursed are you in your going out.

20 YHWH will send on you the cursing, the confusion, and the rebuke, in every putting forth of your hand that you do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the wickedness of your doings in which you have forsaken Me.

21 YHWH will make cling to you the plague, until He has consumed you from the land that you are going in to possess.

22 YHWH will strike you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with severe burning fever, and with the sword, and with scorching, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish.

23 And your heavens that are over your head shall be bronze, and the earth that is under you iron.

24 YHWH will give the rain of your land to be dust and powder; from the heavens it shall come down on you, until you are destroyed.

25 YHWH will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; one way you shall go out against him, and seven ways you shall flee before his face, and you shall become troublesome to all the kingdoms of the earth.

26 And your carcass shall be food for all the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth, and no one shall frighten them away.

27 YHWH will strike you with the boils of Egypt, and with the tumors, and with the scab, and with the itch, from which you are not able to be healed.

28 YHWH will strike you with madness and blindness and confusion of mind,

29 and you shall grope at noonday as a blind man gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. And you shall be only oppressed and plundered all of the days, and no one shall save you.

30 You shall betroth a wife and another man shall lie with her. You shall build a house and you shall not dwell in it. You shall plant a vineyard and you shall not gather its grapes.

31 Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, and you shall not eat of it. Your donkey shall be seized from before your face and shall not be restored to you. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have no one to rescue them.

32 Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, and your eyes are looking and wasting away toward them all the day, and there is no power in your hand.

33 A nation whom you have not known shall eat the fruit of your land and of all your toil, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed all the days.

34 And you shall be driven mad because of the sight of your eyes that you see.

35 YHWH will strike you with severe boils in the knees and on the legs, which are not able to be healed, from the sole of your foot and to the top of your head.

36 YHWH shall bring you and the king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will serve other gods of wood and stone.

37 And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the nations to which YHWH will drive you.

38 Much Seed you shall carry out into the field, and little gather in, for the locust shall consume it.

39 You shall plant vineyards and tend them, and of the wine you shall not drink and not gather, for the worms shall consume it.

40 Olive trees shall be unto you throughout all your territory, and with the oil you shall not anoint, for your olives shall drop off.