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Deuteronomy 28 (WEBP)

[1] It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
[2] All these blessings will come upon you, and overtake you, if you listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.
[3] You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field.
[4] You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.
[5] Your basket and your kneading trough shall be blessed.
[6] You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed when you go out.
[7] Yahweh will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck before you. They will come out against you one way, and will flee before you seven ways.
[8] Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to. He will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
[9] Yahweh will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and walk in his ways.
[10] All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by Yahweh’s name, and they will be afraid of you.
[11] Yahweh will grant you abundant prosperity in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.
[12] Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow.
[13] Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail. You will be above only, and you will not be beneath, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you today, to observe and to do,
[14] and shall not turn away from any of the words which I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
[15] But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come on you and overtake you.
[16] You will be cursed in the city, and you will be cursed in the field.
[17] Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.
[18] The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock will be cursed.
[19] You will be cursed when you come in, and you will be cursed when you go out.
[20] Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.
[21] Yahweh will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from off the land where you go in to possess it.
[22] Yahweh will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with fiery heat, with the sword, with blight, and with mildew. They will pursue you until you perish.
[23] Your sky that is over your head will be bronze, and the earth that is under you will be iron.
[24] Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust. It will come down on you from the sky, until you are destroyed.
[25] Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them, and will flee seven ways before them. You will be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
[26] Your dead bodies will be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there will be no one to frighten them away.
[27] Yahweh will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with the tumors, with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed.
[28] Yahweh will strike you with madness, with blindness, and with astonishment of heart.
[29] You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you.
[30] You will betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. You will build a house, and you won’t dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, and not use its fruit.
[31] Your ox will be slain before your eyes, and you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be violently taken away from before your face, and will not be restored to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to save you.
[32] Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power in your hand.
[33] A nation which you don’t know will eat the fruit of your ground and all of your work. You will only be oppressed and crushed always,
[34] so that the sights that you see with your eyes will drive you mad.
[35] Yahweh will strike you in the knees and in the legs with a sore boil, of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
[36] Yahweh will bring you, and your king whom you will set over yourselves, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods of wood and stone.
[37] You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where Yahweh will lead you away.
[38] You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it.
[39] You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink of the wine, nor harvest, because worms will eat them.
[40] You will have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you won’t anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off.
[41] You will father sons and daughters, but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.
[42] Locusts will consume all of your trees and the fruit of your ground.
[43] The foreigner who is among you will mount up above you higher and higher, and you will come down lower and lower.
[44] He will lend to you, and you won’t lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.
[45] All these curses will come on you, and will pursue you and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you didn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you.
[46] They will be for a sign and for a wonder to you and to your offspring forever.
[47] Because you didn’t serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;
[48] therefore you will serve your enemies whom Yahweh sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.
[49] Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies: a nation whose language you will not understand,
[50] a nation of fierce facial expressions, that doesn’t respect the elderly, nor show favor to the young.
[51] They will eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed. They also won’t leave you grain, new wine, oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
[52] They will besiege you in all your gates until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout all your land. They will besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land which Yahweh your God has given you.
[53] You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you.
[54] The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining,
[55] so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left to him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in all your gates.
[56] The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil toward the husband that she loves, toward her son, toward her daughter,
[57] toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of all things in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in your gates.
[58] If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, YAHWEH your God,
[59] then Yahweh will make your plagues and the plagues of your offspring fearful, even great plagues, and of long duration, and severe sicknesses, and of long duration.
[60] He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they will cling to you.
[61] Also every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, Yahweh will bring them on you until you are destroyed.
[62] You will be left few in number, even though you were as the stars of the sky for multitude, because you didn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.
[63] It will happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You will be plucked from the land that you are going in to possess.
[64] Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth. There you will serve other gods which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.
[65] Among these nations you will find no ease, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and pining of soul.
[66] Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be afraid night and day, and will have no assurance of your life.
[67] In the morning you will say, “I wish it were evening!” and at evening you will say, “I wish it were morning!” for the fear of your heart which you will fear, and for the sights which your eyes will see.
[68] Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I told to you that you would never see it again. There you will offer yourselves to your enemies for male and female slaves, and nobody will buy you.

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King James w/Strong’s #s

Deuteronomy 28 (KJVS)

[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 .
[4] Blessed () [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 .
[5] Blessed () [shall be] thy basket and thy store .
[6] Blessed () [shalt] thou [be] when thou comest in (), and blessed () [shalt] thou [be] when thou goest out ().
[7] The 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 .
[8] The 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.
[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.
[11] And 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.
[12] The 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 ().
[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 () (8675) () 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 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].

Young’s Literal Translation

Deuteronomy 28 (YLT)

[1] ‘And it hath been, if thou dost hearken diligently to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all His commands which I am commanding thee to-day, that Jehovah thy God hath made thee uppermost above all the nations of the earth,
[2] and all these blessings have come upon thee, and overtaken thee, because thou dost hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God:
[3] ‘Blessed art thou in the city, and blessed art thou in the field.
[4] ‘Blessed is the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock.
[5] ‘Blessed is thy basket and thy kneading-trough.
[6] ‘Blessed art thou in thy coming in, and blessed art thou in thy going out.
[7] ‘Jehovah giveth thine enemies, who are rising up against thee-smitten before thy face; in one way they come out unto thee, and in seven ways they flee before thee.
[8] ‘Jehovah commandeth with thee the blessing in thy storehouses, and in every putting forth of thy hand, and hath blessed thee in the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.
[9] ‘Jehovah doth establish thee to Himself for a holy people, as He hath sworn to thee, when thou keepest the commands of Jehovah thy God, and hast walked in His ways;
[10] and all the peoples of the land have seen that the name of Jehovah is called upon thee, and they have been afraid of thee.
[11] ‘And Jehovah hath made thee abundant in good, in the fruit of the womb, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, on the ground which Jehovah hath sworn to thy fathers to give to thee.
[12] ‘Jehovah doth open to thee his good treasure-the heavens-to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand, and thou hast lent to many nations, and thou-thou dost not borrow.
[13] ‘And Jehovah hath given thee for head, and not for tail; and thou hast been only above, and art not beneath, for thou dost hearken unto the commands of Jehovah thy God, which I am commanding thee to-day, to keep and to do,
[14] and thou dost not turn aside from all the words which I am commanding you to-day-right or left-to go after other gods, to serve them.
[15] ‘And it hath been, if thou dost not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God to observe to do all His commands, and His statutes, which I am commanding thee to-day, that all these revilings have come upon thee, and overtaken thee:
[16] ‘Cursed art thou in the city, and cursed art thou in the field.
[17] ‘Cursed is thy basket and thy kneading-trough.
[18] ‘Cursed is the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock.
[19] ‘Cursed art thou in thy coming in, and cursed art thou in thy going out.
[20] ‘Jehovah doth send on thee the curse, the trouble, and the rebuke, in every putting forth of thy hand which thou dost, till thou art destroyed, and till thou perish hastily, because of the evil of thy doings by which thou hast forsaken Me.
[21] ‘Jehovah doth cause to cleave to thee the pestilence, till He consume thee from off the ground whither thou art going in to possess it.
[22] ‘Jehovah doth smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with extreme burning, and with sword, and with blasting, and with mildew, and they have pursued thee till thou perish
[23] ‘And thy heavens which are over thy head have been brass, and the earth which is under thee iron;
[24] Jehovah giveth the rain of thy land-dust and ashes; from the heavens it cometh down on thee till thou art destroyed.
[25] ‘Jehovah giveth thee smitten before thine enemies; in one way thou goest out unto them, and in seven ways dost flee before them, and thou hast been for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth;
[26] and thy carcase hath been for food to every fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth, and there is none causing trembling.
[27] ‘Jehovah doth smite thee with the ulcer of Egypt, and with emerods, and with scurvy, and with itch, of which thou art not able to be healed.
[28] ‘Jehovah doth smite thee with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart;
[29] and thou hast been gropling at noon, as the blind gropeth in darkness; and thou dost not cause thy ways to prosper; and thou hast been only oppressed and plundered all the days, and there is no saviour.
[30] ‘A woman thou dost betroth, and another man doth lie with her; a house thou dost build, and dost not dwell in it; a vineyard thou dost plant, and dost not make it common;
[31] thine ox is slaughtered before thine eyes, and thou dost not eat of it; thine ass is taken violently away from before thee, and it is not given back to thee; thy sheep are given to thine enemies, and there is no saviour for thee.
[32] ‘Thy sons and thy daughters are given to another people, and thine eyes are looking and consuming for them all the day, and thy hand is not to God!
[33] The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labour, eat up doth a people whom thou hast not known; and thou hast been only oppressed and bruised all the days;
[34] and thou hast been mad, because of the sight of thine eyes which thou dost see.
[35] ‘Jehovah doth smite thee with an evil ulcer, on the knees, and on the legs (of which thou art not able to be healed), from the sole of thy foot even unto thy crown.
[36] ‘Jehovah doth cause thee to go, and thy king whom thou raisest up over thee, unto a nation which thou hast not known, thou and thy fathers, and thou hast served there other gods, wood and stone;
[37] and thou hast been for an astonishment, for a simile, and for a byword among all the peoples whither Jehovah doth lead thee.
[38] ‘Much seed thou dost take out into the field, and little thou dost gather in, for the locust doth consume it;
[39] vineyards thou dost plant, and hast laboured, and wine thou dost not drink nor gather, for the worm doth consume it;
[40] olives are to thee in all thy border, and oil thou dost not pour out, for thine olive doth fall off.
[41] ‘Sons and daughters thou dost beget, and they are not with thee, for they go into captivity;
[42] all thy trees and the fruit of thy ground doth the locust possess;
[43] the sojourner who is in thy midst goeth up above thee very high, and thou goest down very low;
[44] he doth lend to thee, and thou dost not lend to him; he is for head, and thou art for tail.
[45] ‘And come upon thee have all these curses, and they have pursued thee, and overtaken thee, till thou art destroyed, because thou hast not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep His commands, and His statutes, which he hath commanded thee;
[46] and they have been on thee for a sign and for a wonder, also on thy seed-to the age.
[47] ‘Because that thou hast not served Jehovah thy God with joy, and with gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things-
[48] thou hast served thine enemies, whom Jehovah sendeth against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in lack of all things; and he hath put a yoke of iron on thy neck, till He hath destroyed thee.
[49] ‘Jehovah doth lift up against thee a nation, from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle it flieth; a nation whose tongue thou hast not heard,
[50] a nation-fierce of countenance-which accepteth not the face of the aged, and the young doth not favour;
[51] and it hath eaten the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, till thou art destroyed; which leaveth not to thee corn, new wine, and oil, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock, till it hath destroyed thee.
[52] ‘And it hath laid siege to thee in all thy gates, till thy walls come down, the high and the fenced ones in which thou art trusting, in all thy land; yea, it hath laid siege to thee in all thy gates, in all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given to thee;
[53] and thou hast eaten the fruit of thy body, flesh of thy sons and thy daughters (whom Jehovah thy God hath given to thee), in the siege, and in the straitness with which thine enemies do straiten thee.
[54] ‘The man who is tender in thee, and who is very delicate-his eye is evil against his brother, and against the wife of his bosom, and against the remnant of his sons whom he leaveth,
[55] against giving to one of them of the flesh of his sons whom he eateth, because he hath nothing left to him, in the siege, and in the straitness with which thine enemy doth straiten thee in all thy gates.
[56] ‘The tender woman in thee, and the delicate, who hath not tried the sole of her foot to place on the ground because of delicateness and because of tenderness-her eye is evil against the husband of her bosom, and against her son, and against her daughter,
[57] and against her seed which cometh out from between her feet, even against her sons whom she doth bear, for she doth eat them for the lacking of all things in secret, in the siege and in the straitness with which thine enemy doth straiten thee within thy gates.
[58] ‘If thou dost not observe to do all the words of this law which are written in this book, to fear this honoured and fearful name-Jehovah thy God-
[59] then hath Jehovah made wonderful thy strokes, and the strokes of thy seed-great strokes, and stedfast, and evil sicknesses, and stedfast.
[60] ‘And He hath brought back on thee all the diseases of Egypt, of the presence of which thou hast been afraid, and they have cleaved to thee;
[61] also every sickness and every stroke which is not written in the book of this law; Jehovah doth cause them to go up upon thee till thou art destroyed,
[62] and ye have been left with few men, instead of which ye have been as stars of the heavens for multitude, because thou hast not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah thy God.
[63] ‘And it hath been, as Jehovah hath rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so doth Jehovah rejoice over you to destroy you, and to lay you waste; and ye have been pulled away from off the ground whither thou art going in to possess it;
[64] and Jehovah hath scattered thee among all the peoples, from the end of the earth even unto the end of the earth; and thou hast served there other gods which thou hast not known, thou and thy fathers-wood and stone.
[65] ‘And among those nations thou dost not rest, yea, there is no resting-place for the sole of thy foot, and Jehovah hath given to thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and grief of soul;
[66] and thy life hath been hanging in suspense before thee, and thou hast been afraid by night and by day, and dost not believe in thy life;
[67] in the morning thou sayest, O that it were evening! and in the evening thou sayest, O that it were morning! from the fear of thy heart, with which thou art afraid, and from the sight of thine eyes which thou seest.
[68] ‘And Jehovah hath brought thee back to Egypt with ships, by a way of which I said to thee, Thou dost not add any more to see it, and ye have sold yourselves there to thine enemies, for men-servants and for maid-servants, and there is no buyer.’