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The Book of Deuteronomy 28

28 If you do what Yahweh our God tells you to do and faithfully obey everything that I am today commanding you to do, he will cause you to become greater than any other people group on the earth. 2 If you obey Yahweh your God, he will bless you in all these ways:

3 He will bless everything that you do when you are in the cities, and he will bless everything that you do when you are working in the fields.

4 He will bless you by giving you many children, abundant crops, plenty of fertile cattle, and many sheep.

5 He will bless you by giving you plenty of grain to make bread.

6 He will bless you everywhere—whether you are at home or elsewhere.

7 Yahweh will enable you to defeat the armies of your enemies; they will attack you from one direction, but they will run away from you in many directions.

8 Yahweh will bless you by filling your barns with grain, and he will bless all the work that you do; he will bless you in the land that he is giving to you.

9 If you obey all that Yahweh our God is commanding you to do throughout your lives, he will keep you as his own holy people, just as he promised you. 10 Then all the people groups on the earth will realize that you belong to Yahweh, and they will be afraid of you. 11 And Yahweh will cause you to prosper very much. He will give you many children, many cattle, and abundant crops in the land that he solemnly promised to our ancestors that he would give to you.

12 At the time that your land needs rain, Yahweh will send it from where he stores it in the sky, and he will bless all your work, with the result that you will be able to lend money to many other people groups, but you will not need to borrow money from them. 13 If you faithfully obey all of the commands of Yahweh our God that I am giving you today, then Yahweh will cause your people group to be superior to other people groups, not inferior to them. 14 Yahweh will do all these things for you if you do not stop obeying what I am commanding you today, and if you never worship other gods.

15 But if you do not do what Yahweh our God tells you to do and do not faithfully obey all his rules and regulations that I am today commanding you to do, he will curse you in all these ways:

16 He will curse everything that you do when you are in the cities, and he will curse everything that you do when you are working in the fields.

17 He will curse you by not giving you much grain to make bread.

18 He will curse you by giving you few and sickly children, crops, cattle, and sheep.

19 He will curse you everywhere—whether you are at home or elsewhere.

20 Yahweh will curse you by confusing and frustrating you in all that you do until your enemies destroy you. They will quickly kill you for your wicked sins and for rebelling against him. 21 Yahweh will make you very sick, until all of you die in the land that you are about to enter and occupy. 22 Yahweh will afflict you with diseases that shrivel your bodies, with fever, with inflammation. It will be extremely hot, there will be violence everywhere, there will be scorching winds, and he will cause your crops to rot. He will afflict you with these until you die. 23 It will not rain so the ground will be very hard and unproductive. 24 Instead of sending rain, Yahweh will send strong winds to blow sand and dust over your land, until your land is ruined.

25 Yahweh will enable your enemies to defeat you; your soldiers will attack them from one direction, but will run away from them in many directions. People from every other nation will be horrified at what Yahweh has done to you. 26 You will die, and birds and wild animals will come and eat your corpses, and there will not be anyone to scare them away. 27 Yahweh will cause you to have boils on your skin, like he caused the people of Egypt to have many years ago.He will cause you to have tumors, open sores, and your skin will itch, but there will be nothing that will cure those diseases. 28 Yahweh will cause some of you to become insane; he will cause some of you to become blind, and he will cause some of your minds to become confused. 29 At midday you will feel around with your hands, like you are blind or in the dark. You will not prosper in anything that you do. Enemies will continually oppress and rob you, and there will not be anyone to help you.

30 A man will formally arrange to marry a young woman, but someone else will rape her. You will build houses, but you will never live in them. You will plant grapevines, but you will not pick any grapes or drink any wine. 31 Your enemies will butcher your cattle while you watch them, but you will not get any of the meat to eat. They will drag away your donkeys while you watch them do it, and they will not give them back to you. They will take away your sheep and there will not be anyone to help you rescue them. 32 Foreigners will steal your sons and daughters. You will constantly watch for your children to return, but you will not be able to do anything for them. 33 People from a foreign nation will eat all the crops that you worked hard to produce, and they will constantly treat you harshly and cruelly. 34 All these terrible things that you see will cause you to become insane. 35 Yahweh will cause painful boils that no one can heal to cover your knees and legs, and you will have boils from the bottom of your feet to the top of your head.

36 Yahweh will cause enemies to take your king (who you will have chosen for yourself) and the rest of you to another country where you and your ancestors have never lived. There you will worship strange gods that men made of wood or stone. 37 The people in the countries where Yahweh drives you will use what has happened to you as a horror story, a proverb, and something to mock.

38 You will plant plenty of seeds in your fields, but you will reap only a small harvest, because locusts will eat the crops. 39 You will plant grapevines and take care of them, but you will not pick any grapes or drink any wine, because worms will eat the vines. 40 Olive trees will grow everywhere in your land, but you will not get any olive oil to rub on your skin because the olives will drop on the ground before they are ripe. 41 You will have sons and daughters, but they will not stay with you, because enemies will capture and take them away. 42 Swarms of crickets will eat your crops and the leaves of all your trees.

43 Foreigners who live in your land will become more and more powerful, and you will become less and less powerful. 44 They will have money to lend to you, but you will not have any money to lend to them.

They will be superior to you, and you will be inferior to them.

45 When all these disasters happen to you and continue to happen to you until they destroy you, you will know it is because you did not do what Yahweh your God told you to do and did not obey all the rules and regulations that he gave to you. 46 These disasters that Yahweh will bring on you and your descendants will forever show everyone his mighty power. 47 Because Yahweh our God blessed you abundantly in many ways, you should have served him very joyfully, but you did not do that. 48 Therefore, you will work for the enemies whom Yahweh will send to attack you. You will be hungry and thirsty; you will not have clothes to wear and you will lack everything else that you need. And Yahweh will cause you to become slaves and work hard until he destroys you.

49 Yahweh will bring against you an army from very far away. Their soldiers will speak a language that you will not understand. They will swoop down on you quickly like an eagle. 50 They will be fierce looking. They will not act mercifully toward anyone, not even old people or young children. 51 They will kill and eat your livestock, and they will eat your crops, and you will starve. They will not leave for you any grain, wine, olive oil, calves, or lambs. You will all die from hunger. 52 Your enemies will surround your towns throughout the land that Yahweh your God is about to give to you. They will break down the high and strong walls around your towns, walls which you trusted would protect you.

53 When your enemies are surrounding your towns, you will be so extremely hungry that you will eat your own sons and daughters whom Yahweh your God has given to you.54-55 54-55When your enemies have surrounded your towns, even the most dainty and sensitive men among you will want food very desperately, with the result that they will kill their own children and eat them, because they will not have anything else to eat. They will be greedy and not even share any of it with their brothers or wives whom they love very much or with any of their other children who are still alive.56-57 56-57Even the most dainty and sensitive women among you, so sensitive and dainty that they have never walked barefoot, will do the same thing. When your enemies have surrounded your towns, those women will be extremely hungry, with the result that after they give birth to a child, they will secretly kill the baby and eat it and also eat the afterbirth. And they will be greedy and will not share any of it with their husbands whom they love very much or with any of their other children.

58 If you do not faithfully obey all of the laws that I am writing, and if you do not have the utmost respect for Yahweh our glorious and amazing God, 59 he will punish you by sending on you and on your descendants great afflictions and plagues which will last for many years. 60 He will bring on you all the plagues that he sent on the people of Egypt, which terrified you, and you will always be sick. 61 He will also send on you many other sicknesses and diseases that I have not talked about in these laws, until you all will die. 62 You became as numerous as the stars in the sky, but only a few of you will remain alive, if you do not obey Yahweh your God. 63 Yahweh was very happy to do good things for you and to cause you to become very numerous, but now he will be happy to ruin you and get rid of you. Those of you who do not die from these plagues, he will snatch away from the land that you will soon be entering to possess.

64 Yahweh will scatter you among many people groups, all over the earth, and in those places, you will worship other gods that men made of wood or stone, gods which you and your ancestors have never known. 65 In those areas you will not have any peace or rest. Yahweh will make you afraid, hopeless, and discouraged. 66 You will always be afraid that your enemies will kill you. You will be very fearful, all day and all night. 67 Because you will be very fearful and because you will very distressed because of the terrible things that you see, each morning you will say ‘I wish it were evening already!’ and each evening you will say ‘I wish it were morning already!’ 68 Yahweh will send some of you back to Egypt in ships, even though he promised that he would never force you to go there again. There in Egypt you will try to sell yourselves to become slaves of your enemies in order to have food to eat, but no one will buy you.”

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