1: And
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:
2: And all these blessings shall come on thee,
and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice
of the LORD thy God.
3: Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed
shalt thou be in the field.
9: The
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.
10: And all people of the earth shall see that
thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall
be afraid of thee.
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.
24: The LORD shall make the rain of thy land
powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon
thee, until thou be destroyed.
25: The 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.
26: And 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.
27: The 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.
28: The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and
blindness, and astonishment of heart:
29: And 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.
30: Thou 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.
31: Thine 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.
32: Thy 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.
33: The 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 always:
34: So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of
thine eyes which thou shalt see.
35: The 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.
36: The 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.
37: And thou shalt become an astonishment, a
proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the
LORD shall lead thee.
38: Thou shalt carry much seed out into the
field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust
shall consume it.
39: Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them,
but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the
grapes; for the worms shall eat them.
40: Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all
thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the
oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.
41: Thou shalt beget
sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for
they shall go into captivity.
42: All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the
locust consume.
43: The stranger
that is within thee shall get up above thee very high;
and thou shalt come down very low.
44: He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not
lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the
tail.
45: Moreover 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:
46: And they shall be upon thee for a sign and
for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.
47: Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God
with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the
abundance of all things;
48: Therefore 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.
49: The 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;
50: A nation of fierce countenance, which shall
not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the
young:
51: And 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.
52: And 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.
53: And 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:
54: So 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:
55: So 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.
56: The 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,
57: And 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.
58: If 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;
59: Then 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.
60: Moreover he will bring upon thee all the
diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they
shall cleave unto thee.
61: Also 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.
62: And 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.
63: And 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.
64: And 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.
65: And 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:
66: And thy life
shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day
and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:
67: In 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.
68: And 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.
Deuteronomy,
chapter 28 of The HOLY BIBLE
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