q[See ver. 4 above]
bg[See ver. 38 above]
bk[See ver. 43 above]
cd[See ver. 55 above]

‏ Deuteronomy 28

Blessings for Obedience

1“And aif you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you bhigh above all the nations of the earth. 2And all these blessings shall come upon you and covertake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God. 3Blessed shall you be in the city, and dblessed shall you be in the field. 4Blessed shall be ethe fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. 5Blessed shall be your basket and your fkneading bowl. 6Blessed shall you be gwhen you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.

7“The Lord hwill cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you. They shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways. 8The Lord iwill command the blessing on you in your barns and jin all that you undertake. kAnd he will bless you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. 9 lThe Lord will establish you as a people holy to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in his ways. 10And mall the peoples of the earth shall see that you are ncalled by the name of the Lord, and they shall be oafraid of you. 11And pthe Lord will make you abound in prosperity, in qthe fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your livestock and in the fruit of your ground, within the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give you. 12The Lord will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, rto give the rain to your land in its season and sto bless all the work of your hands. And tyou shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. 13And the Lord will make you uthe head and not the tail, and you shall only go up and not down, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, being careful to do them, 14 vand if you do not turn aside from any of the words that I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

Curses for Disobedience

15“But wif you will not obey the voice of the Lord your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and xovertake you. 16Cursed shall you be yin the city, and cursed shall you be in the field. 17Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. 18Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. 19Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

20“The Lord zwill send on you curses, confusion, and aafrustration in all that you undertake to do, abuntil you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken me. 21The Lord will make acthe pestilence stick to you until he has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it. 22 adThe Lord will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought
Or sword
and with afblight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish.
23And agthe heavens over your head shall be bronze, and the earth under you shall be iron. 24The Lord will make the rain of your land powder. From heaven dust shall come down on you until you are destroyed.

25 ah“The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you aishall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26And ajyour dead body shall be food for all birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth, and akthere shall be no one to frighten them away. 27The Lord will strike you alwith the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and amscabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed. 28The Lord will strike you with anmadness and blindness and confusion of mind, 29and you shall aogrope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways.
Or  shall not succeed in finding your ways
And you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you.
30 aqYou shall betroth a wife, but another man shall ravish her. arYou shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it. asYou shall plant a vineyard, but you shall not enjoy its fruit. 31Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat any of it. Your donkey shall be seized before your face, but shall not be restored to you. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies, but there shall be no one to help you. 32 atYour sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, aubut you shall be helpless. 33A nation that you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually, 34so that you are driven mad avby the sights that your eyes see. 35The Lord will strike you on the knees and on the legs awwith grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

36“The Lord will axbring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you aynor your fathers have known. And azthere you shall serve other gods of wood and stone. 37And you shall become baa horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away. 38 bbYou shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for bcthe locust shall consume it. 39 bdYou shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them. 40You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you beshall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off. 41You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for bfthey shall go into captivity. 42 bgThe cricket
Identity uncertain
shall possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground.
43 biThe sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. 44 bjHe shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. bkHe shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.

45 blAll these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you. 46They shall be bma sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever. 47 bnBecause you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things, 48therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he bowill put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you. 49 bpThe Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, bqswooping down like the eagle, a nation brwhose language you do not understand, 50a hard-faced nation bswho shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young. 51It shall bteat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; it also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.

52“They shall bubesiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land. And they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the Lord your God has given you. 53And bvyou shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, bwin the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you. 54The man who is the most tender and refined among you will bxbegrudge food to his brother, to bythe wife he embraces,
Hebrew  the wife of his bosom
and to the last of the children whom he has left,
55so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, cain the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns. 56 cbThe most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces,
Hebrew  the husband of her bosom
to her son and to her daughter,
57her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, cdin the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.

58If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, cethe Lord your God, 59then the Lord will bring on you and your offspring extraordinary afflictions, afflictions severe and lasting, and sicknesses grievous and lasting. 60And he will bring upon you again all cfthe diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you. 61Every sickness also and every affliction that is not recorded in the book of this law, the Lord will bring upon you, until you are destroyed. 62Whereas cgyou were as numerous chas the stars of heaven, you shall be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God. 63And as the Lord citook delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the Lord will cjtake delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you. And you shall be plucked off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.

64“And the Lord ckwill scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and clthere you shall serve other gods cmof wood and stone, cnwhich neither you nor your fathers have known. 65And coamong these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but cpthe Lord will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and cqa languishing soul. 66Your life shall hang in doubt before you. Night and day you shall be in dread and have no assurance of your life. 67 crIn the morning you shall say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and at evening you shall say, ‘If only it were morning!’ because of the dread that your heart shall feel, and csthe sights that your eyes shall see. 68And the Lord ctwill bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey that I promised that cuyou should never make again; and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”

Copyright information for ESV