Deuteronomy 28:21-61

Deuteronomy 28:21-61

[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 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  [30] Thou shalt betroth  a wife,  and another  man  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  alway:  [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  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  [38] much  seed  out  into the field,  but little  in;  for the locust  shall consume  [39] Thou shalt plant  vineyards,  and dress  them, but shalt neither drink  of the wine,  nor gather  the grapes; for the worms  shall eat  [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,  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  and thou shalt come down  very  [44] He shall 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  [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  [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,  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  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  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  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.