Deuteronomy 27 - 30
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Now Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, "Keep the whole commandment that I command you today.
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And on the day s you cross over the Jordan to the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall set up large stones and plaster them with plaster.
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t And you shall write on them all the words of this law, when you cross over to enter the land that the Lord your God is giving you, u a land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
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And when you have crossed over the Jordan, you shall set up these stones, concerning which I command you today, v on Mount Ebal, and you shall plaster them with plaster.
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And there you shall build an altar to the Lord your God, an altar of stones. w You shall wield no iron tool on them;
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you shall build an altar to the Lord your God of uncut stones. And you shall offer burnt offerings on it to the Lord your God,
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and you shall sacrifice peace offerings and x shall eat there, and you x shall rejoice before the Lord your God.
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And y you shall write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly."
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Then Moses and the Levitical priests said to all Israel, "Keep silence and hear, O Israel: z this day you have become the people of the Lord your God.
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You shall therefore obey the voice of the Lord your God, keeping his commandments and his statutes, which I command you today."
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That day Moses charged the people, saying,
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"When you have crossed over the Jordan, a these shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.
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And these shall stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
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And b the Levites shall declare to all the men of Israel in a loud voice:
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c "'Cursed be the man who makes a carved or cast metal image, an abomination to the Lord, a thing made by the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret.' d And all the people shall answer and say, 'Amen.'
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e "'Cursed be anyone who dishonors his father or his mother.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
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f "'Cursed be anyone who moves his neighbor's landmark.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
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g "'Cursed be anyone who misleads a blind man on the road.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
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h "'Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
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i "'Cursed be anyone who lies with his father's wife, because he has j uncovered his father's nakedness.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
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k "'Cursed be anyone who lies with any kind of animal.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
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l "'Cursed be anyone who lies with his sister, whether the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
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m "'Cursed be anyone who lies with his mother-in-law.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
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n "'Cursed be anyone who strikes down his neighbor in secret.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
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o "'Cursed be anyone who takes a bribe to shed innocent blood.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
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p "'Cursed be anyone who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
Deuteronomy 28
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"And q if 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 r high above all the nations of the earth.
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And all these blessings shall come upon you and s overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God.
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Blessed shall you be in the city, and t blessed shall you be in the field.
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Blessed shall be u the 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.
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Blessed shall be your basket and your v kneading bowl.
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Blessed shall you be w when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.
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"The Lord x will 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.
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The Lord y will command the blessing on you in your barns and z in all that you undertake. a And he will bless you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
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b The 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.
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And c all the peoples of the earth shall see that you are d called by the name of the Lord, and they shall be e afraid of you.
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And f the Lord will make you abound in prosperity, in u the 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.
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The Lord will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, g to give the rain to your land in its season and h to bless all the work of your hands. And i you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
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And the Lord will make you j the 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,
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k and 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.
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"But l if 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 m overtake you.
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Cursed shall you be n in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.
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Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
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Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.
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Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.
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"The Lord o will send on you curses, confusion, and p frustration in all that you undertake to do, q until you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken me.
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The Lord will make r the pestilence stick to you until he has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
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s The Lord will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought and with t blight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish.
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And u the heavens over your head shall be bronze, and the earth under you shall be iron.
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The Lord will make the rain of your land powder. From heaven dust shall come down on you until you are destroyed.
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v "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 w shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
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And x your dead body shall be food for all birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth, and y there shall be no one to frighten them away.
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The Lord will strike you z with the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and a scabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed.
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The Lord will strike you with b madness and blindness and confusion of mind,
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and you shall c grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. And you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you.
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d You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall ravish her. e You shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it. f You shall plant a vineyard, but you shall not enjoy its fruit.
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Your 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.
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g Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, h but you shall be helpless.
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A 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,
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so that you are driven mad i by the sights that your eyes see.
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The Lord will strike you on the knees and on the legs j with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
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"The Lord will k bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you l nor your fathers have known. And m there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone.
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And you shall become n a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away.
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o You shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for p the locust shall consume it.
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q You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them.
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You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you r shall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off.
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You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for s they shall go into captivity.
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p The cricket shall possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground.
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t The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.
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u He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. t He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
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v "All 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.
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They shall be w a sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever.
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x Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things,
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therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he y will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.
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z The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, a swooping down like the eagle, a nation b whose language you do not understand,
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a hard-faced nation c who shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young.
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It shall d eat 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.
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"They shall e besiege 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.
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And f you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, g in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.
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The man who is the most tender and refined among you will h begrudge food to his brother, to i the wife he embraces, and to the last of the children whom he has left,
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so 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, j in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns.
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k The 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, to her son and to her daughter,
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her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, j in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.
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"If 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, l the Lord your God,
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then the Lord will bring on you and your offspring extraordinary afflictions, afflictions severe and lasting, and sicknesses grievous and lasting.
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And he will bring upon you again all m the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you.
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Every 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.
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Whereas n you were as numerous o as the stars of heaven, you shall be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God.
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And as the Lord p took delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the Lord will q take 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.
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"And the Lord r will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and s there you shall serve other gods t of wood and stone, u which neither you nor your fathers have known.
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And v among these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but w the Lord will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and x a languishing soul.
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Your life shall hang in doubt before you. Night and day you shall be in dread and have no assurance of your life.
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y In 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 z the sights that your eyes shall see.
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And the Lord a will bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey that I promised that b you 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."
Deuteronomy 29
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These are the words of the covenant that the Lord commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel c in the land of Moab, besides d the covenant that he had made with them at Horeb.
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And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: e "You have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land,
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the great f trials that your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders.
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But to this day g the Lord has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear.
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h I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn off your feet.
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i You have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.
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And when you came to this place, j Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us to battle, but we defeated them.
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We took their land and k gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites.
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l Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.
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"You are standing today all of you before the Lord your God: the heads of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel,
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your little ones, your wives, and the m sojourner who is in your camp, from n the one who chops your wood to the one who draws your water,
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so that you may enter into the o sworn covenant of the Lord your God, which the Lord your God is making with you today,
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that he may p establish you today as his people, and that q he may be your God, as he promised you, and r as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
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It is not with you alone s that I am making this sworn covenant,
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but with whoever is standing here with us today before the Lord our God, t and with whoever is not here with us today.
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"You know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed.
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And you have seen their detestable things, their idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold, which were among them.
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Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the Lord our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware lest there be among you u a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit,
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one who, when he hears the words of this sworn covenant, blesses himself in his heart, saying, 'I shall be safe, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.' This will lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike.
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The Lord will not be willing to forgive him, but rather v the anger of the Lord and w his jealousy will smoke against that man, and the curses written in this book will settle upon him, and the Lord x will blot out his name from under heaven.
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And the Lord will single him out from all the tribes of Israel for calamity, in accordance with all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.
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And the next generation, your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, y will say, when they see the afflictions of that land and the sicknesses with which the Lord has made it sick -
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the whole land burned out with brimstone and z salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, a an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, b Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath -
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all the nations c will say, d 'Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What caused the heat of this great anger?'
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Then people will say, 'It is because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt,
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and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they had not known and whom he had not allotted to them.
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Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, e bringing upon it all the curses written in this book,
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and the Lord f uprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath, and g cast them into another land, as they are this day.'
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"The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy 30
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h "And i when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and j you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you,
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and k return to the Lord your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul,
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then the Lord your God l will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you, and he will m gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you.
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n If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there he will take you.
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And the Lord your God will bring you into the land that your fathers possessed, that you may possess it. o And he will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers.
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And p the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, q so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
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And the Lord your God will put all these curses on your foes and enemies who persecuted you.
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And you shall again obey the voice of the Lord and keep all his commandments that I command you today.
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r The Lord your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground. s For the Lord will again take delight in prospering you, as he took delight in your fathers,
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when you obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, when you turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
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"For this commandment that I command you today t is not too hard for you, neither is it far off.
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u It is not in heaven, that you should say, 'Who will ascend to heaven for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?'
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Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, 'Who will go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?'
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But the word is very near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it.
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"See, v I have set before you today life and good, death and evil.
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If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you today, w by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
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But if x your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them,
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y I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess.
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I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, z blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live,
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loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice a and holding fast to him, for b he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in c the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them."
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Joshua 4:1
When all the nation had finished passing over the Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua.
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Joshua 8:32
And there, in the presence of the people of Israel, he wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written.
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Exodus 3:8
And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
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Deuteronomy 11:29
And when the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.
Joshua 8:30
At that time Joshua built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal.
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Exodus 20:25
If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones, for if you wield your tool on it you profane it.
Joshua 8:31
Just as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the people of Israel, as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, "an altar of uncut stones, upon which no man has wielded an iron tool." And they offered on it burnt offerings to the Lord and sacrificed peace offerings.
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Deuteronomy 12:7
And there you shall eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your households, in all that you undertake, in which the Lord your God has blessed you.
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Deuteronomy 12:7
And there you shall eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your households, in all that you undertake, in which the Lord your God has blessed you.
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Habakkuk 2:2
And the Lord answered me: "Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it.
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Deuteronomy 26:18
And the Lord has declared today that you are a people for his treasured possession, as he has promised you, and that you are to keep all his commandments.
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Deuteronomy 11:29
And when the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.
Joshua 8:33
And all Israel, sojourner as well as native born, with their elders and officers and their judges, stood on opposite sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded at the first, to bless the people of Israel.
Judges 9:7
When it was told to Jotham, he went and stood on top of Mount Gerizim and cried aloud and said to them, "Listen to me, you leaders of Shechem, that God may listen to you.
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Deuteronomy 33:10
They shall teach Jacob your rules and Israel your law; they shall put incense before you and whole burnt offerings on your altar.
Daniel 9:11
All Israel has transgressed your law and turned aside, refusing to obey your voice. And the curse and oath that are written in the Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because we have sinned against him.
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Exodus 20:4
You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
Exodus 34:17
You shall not make for yourself any gods of cast metal.
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Numbers 5:22
May this water that brings the curse pass into ...
Nehemiah 5:13
I also shook out the fold of my garment and sai...
Psalms 106:48
Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from ev...
Jeremiah 11:5
That I may confirm the oath that I swore to you...
Jeremiah 28:6
And the prophet Jeremiah said, "Amen! May the L...
1 Corinthians 14:16
Otherwise, if you give thanks with your spirit,...
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Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
Exodus 21:17
Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death.
Leviticus 19:3
Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them.
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Deuteronomy 19:14
You shall not move your neighbor's landmark, which the men of old have set, in the inheritance that you will hold in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.
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Leviticus 19:14
You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.
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Exodus 22:21 - 22
You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
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Leviticus 18:8
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is your father's nakedness.
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Deuteronomy 22:30
A man shall not take his father's wife, so that he does not uncover his father's nakedness.
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Leviticus 18:23
And you shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is perversion.
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Leviticus 18:9
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether brought up in the family or in another home.
Leviticus 20:17
If a man takes his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace, and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has uncovered his sister's nakedness, and he shall bear his iniquity.
Ezekiel 22:11
One commits abomination with his neighbor's wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; another in you violates his sister, his father's daughter.
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Leviticus 18:17
You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, and you shall not take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are relatives; it is depravity.
Leviticus 20:14
If a man takes a woman and her mother also, it is depravity; he and they shall be burned with fire, that there may be no depravity among you.
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Deuteronomy 19:11
But if anyone hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and attacks him and strikes him fatally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities.
Exodus 21:12
Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death.
Exodus 21:14
But if a man willfully attacks another to kill him by cunning, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
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Deuteronomy 16:19
You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality, and you shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous.
Exodus 23:7 - 8
Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.
Ezekiel 22:12
In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and profit and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but me you have forgotten, declares the Lord God.
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Deuteronomy 28:15
But if 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 overtake you.
Jeremiah 11:3
You shall say to them, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Cursed be the man who does not hear the words of this covenant
Galatians 3:10
For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, "Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.
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Exodus 15:26
Saying, "If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.
Exodus 23:22
But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.
Leviticus 26:3
If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them.
Isaiah 55:2
Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.
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Deuteronomy 26:19
And that he will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that he has made, and that you shall be a people holy to the Lord your God, as he promised.
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Deuteronomy 28:15
But if 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 overtake you.
Zechariah 1:6
But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? So they repented and said, As the Lord of hosts purposed to deal with us for our ways and deeds, so has he dealt with us.
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Genesis 39:5
From the time that he made him overseer in his house and over all that he had the Lord blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; the blessing of the Lord was on all that he had, in house and field.
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Deuteronomy 7:13
He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock, in the land that he swore to your fathers to give you.
Deuteronomy 30:9
The Lord your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground. For the Lord will again take delight in prospering you, as he took delight in your fathers.
Genesis 49:25
By the God of your father who will help you, by the Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that crouches beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
Exodus 23:26
None shall miscarry or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.
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Deuteronomy 28:17
Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
Exodus 8:3
The Nile shall swarm with frogs that shall come up into your house and into your bedroom and on your bed and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and your kneading bowls.
Exodus 12:34
So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders.
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Psalms 121:8
The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.
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Exodus 23:22
But if you carefully obey his voice and do all ...
Exodus 23:27
I will send my terror before you and will throw...
Leviticus 26:7 - 8
You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fa...
Deuteronomy 28:25
The Lord will cause you to be defeated before y...
2 Samuel 22:38 - 41
I pursued my enemies and destroyed them, and di...
Psalms 18:37 - 40
I pursued my enemies and overtook them, and did...
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Leviticus 25:21
I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years.
Psalms 133:3
It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion! For there the Lord has commanded the blessing, life forevermore.
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Deuteronomy 12:7
And there you shall eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your households, in all that you undertake, in which the Lord your God has blessed you.
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Deuteronomy 15:4
But there will be no poor among you; for the Lord will bless you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess -
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Deuteronomy 7:6
For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 26:18 - 19
And the Lord has declared today that you are a people for his treasured possession, as he has promised you, and that you are to keep all his commandments.
Deuteronomy 29:13
That he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he promised you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Exodus 19:5 - 6
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine.
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Isaiah 61:9
Their offspring shall be known among the nations, and their descendants in the midst of the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are an offspring the Lord has blessed.
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Numbers 6:27
"So shall they put my name upon the people of Israel, and I will bless them."
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Deuteronomy 2:25
This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.
Deuteronomy 11:25
No one shall be able to stand against you. The Lord your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you shall tread, as he promised you.
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Deuteronomy 30:9
The Lord your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground. For the Lord will again take delight in prospering you, as he took delight in your fathers.
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Deuteronomy 28:4
Blessed shall be the 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.
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Deuteronomy 11:14
He will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil.
Leviticus 26:4
Then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
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Deuteronomy 14:29
And the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, shall come and eat and be filled, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do.
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Deuteronomy 15:6
For the Lord your God will bless you, as he promised you, and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow, and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
Deuteronomy 28:44
He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
Psalms 37:26
He is ever lending generously, and his children become a blessing.
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Isaiah 9:14 - 15
So the Lord cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in one day -
Isaiah 19:15
And there will be nothing for Egypt that head or tail, palm branch or reed, may do.
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Deuteronomy 5:32
You shall be careful therefore to do as the Lord your God has commanded you. You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
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Leviticus 26:14
But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments.
Lamentations 2:17
The Lord has done what he purposed; he has carried out his word, which he commanded long ago; he has thrown down without pity; he has made the enemy rejoice over you and exalted the might of your foes.
Daniel 9:11
All Israel has transgressed your law and turned aside, refusing to obey your voice. And the curse and oath that are written in the Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because we have sinned against him.
Daniel 9:13
As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us; yet we have not entreated the favor of the Lord our God, turning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth.
Malachi 2:2
If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart.
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Deuteronomy 28:2
And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God.
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Deuteronomy 28:3 - 6
Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.
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Malachi 2:2
If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart.
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Psalms 80:16
They have burned it with fire; they have cut it down; may they perish at the rebuke of your face!
Isaiah 30:17
A thousand shall flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you shall flee, till you are left like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain, like a signal on a hill.
Isaiah 51:20
Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street like an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of the Lord, the rebuke of your God.
Isaiah 66:15
For behold, the Lord will come in fire, and his chariots like the whirlwind, to render his anger in fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
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Joshua 23:16
If you transgress the covenant of the Lord your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them. Then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land that he has given to you.
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Leviticus 26:25
And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
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Leviticus 26:16
Then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
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1 Kings 8:37
If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemy besieges them in the land at their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is.
2 Chronicles 6:28
If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemies besiege them in the land at their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is.
Amos 4:9
I struck you with blight and mildew; your many gardens and your vineyards, your fig trees and your olive trees the locust devoured; yet you did not return to me," declares the Lord.
Haggai 2:17
I struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and with mildew and with hail, yet you did not turn to me, declares the Lord.
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Leviticus 26:19
And I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.
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Deuteronomy 32:30
How could one have chased a thousand, and two have put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had given them up?
Leviticus 26:17
I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck down before your enemies. Those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when none pursues you.
Leviticus 26:37
They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues. And you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
Isaiah 30:17
A thousand shall flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you shall flee, till you are left like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain, like a signal on a hill.
Deuteronomy 28:7
The Lord will 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.
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Ezekiel 23:46
For thus says the Lord God : "Bring up a vast host against them, and make them an object of terror and a plunder.
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1 Samuel 17:44
The Philistine said to David, "Come to me, and ...
1 Samuel 17:46
This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand...
Psalms 79:2
They have given the bodies of your servants to ...
Jeremiah 16:4
They shall die of deadly diseases. They shall n...
Jeremiah 19:7
And in this place I will make void the plans of...
Jeremiah 34:20
And I will give them into the hand of their ene...
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Jeremiah 7:33
And the dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the air, and for the beasts of the earth, and none will frighten them away.
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Deuteronomy 28:35
The Lord will strike you on the knees and on the legs with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
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Leviticus 21:20
Or a hunchback or a dwarf or a man with a defect in his sight or an itching disease or scabs or crushed testicles.
Leviticus 22:22
Animals blind or disabled or mutilated or having a discharge or an itch or scabs you shall not offer to the Lord or give them to the Lord as a food offering on the altar.
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Deuteronomy 28:34
So that you are driven mad by the sights that your eyes see.
Zechariah 12:4
On that day, declares the Lord, I will strike every horse with panic, and its rider with madness. But for the sake of the house of Judah I will keep my eyes open, when I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.
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Job 5:14
They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope at noonday as in the night.
Isaiah 59:10
We grope for the wall like the blind; we grope like those who have no eyes; we stumble at noon as in the twilight, among those in full vigor we are like dead men.
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Deuteronomy 20:5 - 7
Then the officers shall speak to the people, saying, 'Is there any man who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it.
Jeremiah 8:10
Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to conquerors, because from the least to the greatest everyone is greedy for unjust gain; from prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely.
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Amos 5:11
Therefore because you trample on the poor and you exact taxes of grain from him, you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
Zephaniah 1:13
Their goods shall be plundered, and their houses laid waste. Though they build houses, they shall not inhabit them; though they plant vineyards, they shall not drink wine from them.
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Deuteronomy 20:6
And is there any man who has planted a vineyard and has not enjoyed its fruit? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man enjoy its fruit.
Leviticus 19:23 - 25
When you come into the land and plant any kind of tree for food, then you shall regard its fruit as forbidden. Three years it shall be forbidden to you; it must not be eaten.
Micah 6:15
You shall sow, but not reap; you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil; you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine.
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2 Chronicles 29:9
For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
Joel 3:6
You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border.
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Nehemiah 5:5
Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.
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Deuteronomy 28:67
In 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 the sights that your eyes shall see.
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Deuteronomy 28:27
The Lord will strike you with the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and scabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed.
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2 Kings 17:4
But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hosh...
2 Kings 17:6
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyri...
2 Kings 24:12
And Jehoiachin the king of Judah gave himself u...
2 Kings 24:14
He carried away all Jerusalem and all the offic...
2 Kings 25:7
They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before hi...
2 Kings 25:11
And the rest of the people who were left in the...
2 Chronicles 33:11
Therefore the Lord brought upon them the comman...
2 Chronicles 36:6
Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Baby...
2 Chronicles 36:20
He took into exile in Babylon those who had esc...
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Jeremiah 9:16
I will scatter them among the nations whom neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.
Jeremiah 16:13
Therefore I will hurl you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.
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Deuteronomy 28:64
And the Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
Deuteronomy 4:28
And there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of human hands, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
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1 Kings 9:7 - 8
Then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
2 Chronicles 7:20
Then I will pluck you up from my land that I have given you, and this house that I have consecrated for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
Jeremiah 24:9
I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a reproach, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I shall drive them.
Jeremiah 25:9
Behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the Lord, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
Ezekiel 14:8
And I will set my face against that man; I will make him a sign and a byword and cut him off from the midst of my people, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
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Micah 6:15
You shall sow, but not reap; you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil; you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine.
Haggai 1:6
You have sown much, and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.
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Joel 1:4
What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.
Joel 2:25
I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent among you.
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Zephaniah 1:13
Their goods shall be plundered, and their houses laid waste. Though they build houses, they shall not inhabit them; though they plant vineyards, they shall not drink wine from them.
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Micah 6:15
You shall sow, but not reap; you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil; you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine.
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Lamentations 1:5
Her foes have become the head; her enemies prosper, because the Lord has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions; her children have gone away, captives before the foe.
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Deuteronomy 28:38
You shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for the locust shall consume it.
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Deuteronomy 28:13
And the Lord will make you the 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.
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Deuteronomy 28:12
The Lord will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
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Deuteronomy 28:43
The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.
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Deuteronomy 28:15
But if 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 overtake you.
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Isaiah 8:18
Behold, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are signs and portents in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
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Nehemiah 9:35 - 37
Even in their own kingdom, and amid your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and rich land that you set before them, they did not serve you or turn from their wicked works.
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Jeremiah 28:14
For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put upon the neck of all these nations an iron yoke to serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they shall serve him, for I have given to him even the beasts of the field.'
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Jeremiah 5:15 - 17
Behold, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, declares the Lord. It is an enduring nation; it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor can you understand what they say.
Jeremiah 6:22 - 23
Thus says the Lord : "Behold, a people is coming from the north country, a great nation is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.
Isaiah 5:26 - 30
He will raise a signal for nations far away, and whistle for them from the ends of the earth; and behold, quickly, speedily they come!
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Jeremiah 48:40
For thus says the Lord : "Behold, one shall fly...
Jeremiah 49:22
Behold, one shall mount up and fly swiftly like...
Lamentations 4:19
Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles in th...
Hosea 8:1
Set the trumpet to your lips! One like a vultur...
Habakkuk 1:8
Their horses are swifter than leopards, more fi...
Ezekiel 17:3
Say, Thus says the Lord God : A great eagle wit...
Ezekiel 17:12
Say now to the rebellious house, Do you not kno...
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Isaiah 28:11
For by people of strange lips and with a foreign tongue the Lord will speak to this people.
Isaiah 33:19
You will see no more the insolent people, the people of an obscure speech that you cannot comprehend, stammering in a tongue that you cannot understand.
Jeremiah 5:15
Behold, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, declares the Lord. It is an enduring nation; it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor can you understand what they say.
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2 Chronicles 36:17
Therefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or aged. He gave them all into his hand.
Isaiah 47:6
I was angry with my people; I profaned my heritage; I gave them into your hand; you showed them no mercy; on the aged you made your yoke exceedingly heavy.
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Deuteronomy 28:33
A 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.
Jeremiah 5:17
They shall eat up your harvest and your food; they shall eat up your sons and your daughters; they shall eat up your flocks and your herds; they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees; your fortified cities in which you trust they shall beat down with the sword.
Isaiah 62:8 - 9
The Lord has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: "I will not again give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners shall not drink your wine for which you have labored.
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2 Kings 17:5
Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Samaria, and for three years he besieged it.
2 Kings 25:1 - 2
And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem and laid siege to it. And they built siegeworks all around it.
2 Kings 25:4
Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the king's garden, though the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah.
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Deuteronomy 28:57
Her afterbirth that comes out from between her ...
Leviticus 26:29
You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you s...
Jeremiah 19:9
And I will make them eat the flesh of their son...
Ezekiel 5:10
Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your ...
2 Kings 6:28 - 29
And the king asked her, "What is your trouble?"...
Lamentations 2:20
Look, O Lord, and see! With whom have you dealt...
Lamentations 4:10
The hands of compassionate women have boiled th...
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Deuteronomy 28:55
So 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, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns.
Deuteronomy 28:57
Her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.
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Deuteronomy 15:9
Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, 'The seventh year, the year of release is near,' and your eye look grudgingly on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the Lord against you, and you be guilty of sin.
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Deuteronomy 13:6
If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife you embrace or your friend who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods,' which neither you nor your fathers have known.
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Deuteronomy 28:53
And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.
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Deuteronomy 28:54
The man who is the most tender and refined among you will begrudge food to his brother, to the wife he embraces, and to the last of the children whom he has left.
Isaiah 47:1
Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
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Deuteronomy 28:55
So 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, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns.
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Exodus 6:3
I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the Lord I did not make myself known to them.
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Deuteronomy 7:15
And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict on you, but he will lay them on all who hate you.
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Deuteronomy 4:27
And the Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord will drive you.
2 Kings 24:14
He carried away all Jerusalem and all the officials and all the mighty men of valor, 10,000 captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remained, except the poorest people of the land.
Nehemiah 7:4
The city was wide and large, but the people within it were few, and no houses had been rebuilt.
Jeremiah 42:2
And said to Jeremiah the prophet, "Let our plea for mercy come before you, and pray to the Lord your God for us, for all this remnant - because we are left with but a few, as your eyes see us -
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Deuteronomy 10:22
Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons, and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.
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Deuteronomy 30:9
The Lord your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground. For the Lord will again take delight in prospering you, as he took delight in your fathers.
Jeremiah 32:41
I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, with all my heart and all my soul.
Zephaniah 3:17
The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.
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Proverbs 1:26
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when terror strikes you.
Isaiah 1:24
Therefore the Lord declares, the Lord of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: "Ah, I will get relief from my enemies and avenge myself on my foes.
Ezekiel 5:13
Thus shall my anger spend itself, and I will vent my fury upon them and satisfy myself. And they shall know that I am the Lord - that I have spoken in my jealousy - when I spend my fury upon them.
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Leviticus 26:33
And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
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Deuteronomy 28:36
The Lord will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone.
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Deuteronomy 4:28
And there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of human hands, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
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Deuteronomy 13:6
If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife you embrace or your friend who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods,' which neither you nor your fathers have known.
Jeremiah 19:4
Because the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; and because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents.
Jeremiah 44:3
Because of the evil that they committed, provoking me to anger, in that they went to make offerings and serve other gods that they knew not, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers.
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Amos 9:4
And if they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them; and I will fix my eyes upon them for evil and not for good.
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Leviticus 26:36
And as for those of you who are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues.
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Leviticus 26:16
Then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
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Job 7:3 - 4
So I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
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Deuteronomy 28:34
So that you are driven mad by the sights that your eyes see.
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Hosea 8:13
As for my sacrificial offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but the Lord does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins; they shall return to Egypt.
Hosea 9:3
They shall not remain in the land of the Lord, but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.
Jeremiah 43:7
And they came into the land of Egypt, for they did not obey the voice of the Lord. And they arrived at Tahpanhes.
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Deuteronomy 17:16
Only he must not acquire many horses for himself or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to acquire many horses, since the Lord has said to you, 'You shall never return that way again.
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Deuteronomy 1:5
Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses undertook to explain this law, saying.
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Deuteronomy 5:2 - 3
The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
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Exodus 19:4
You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself.
Joshua 23:3
And you have seen all that the Lord your God has done to all these nations for your sake, for it is the Lord your God who has fought for you.
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Deuteronomy 4:34
Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
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Isaiah 6:9 - 10
And he said, "Go, and say to this people: "'Kee...
Isaiah 63:17
O Lord, why do you make us wander from your way...
John 8:43
Why do you not understand what I say? It is bec...
Acts 28:26 - 27
'Go to this people, and say, You will indeed he...
Romans 11:8
As it is written, "God gave them a spirit of st...
Romans 11:10
Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot ...
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Deuteronomy 1:3
In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the people of Israel according to all that the Lord had given him in commandment to them.
Deuteronomy 8:2
And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.
Deuteronomy 8:4
Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years.
Amos 2:10
Also it was I who brought you up out of the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
Acts 13:18
And for about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.
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Deuteronomy 8:3
And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
Exodus 16:4
Then the Lord said to Moses, "Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.
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Deuteronomy 2:24
Rise up, set out on your journey and go over th...
Deuteronomy 2:26
So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Ked...
Deuteronomy 2:32
Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his ...
Deuteronomy 3:1
Then we turned and went up the way to Bashan. A...
Numbers 21:21 - 24
Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of th...
Numbers 21:33 - 35
Then they turned and went up by the way to Bash...
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Deuteronomy 3:12 - 13
When we took possession of this land at that time, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory beginning at Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities.
Numbers 32:33
And Moses gave to them, to the people of Gad and to the people of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land and its cities with their territories, the cities of the land throughout the country.
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Deuteronomy 4:6
Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
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Exodus 12:38
A mixed multitude also went up with them, and very much livestock, both flocks and herds.
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Joshua 9:21
And the leaders said to them, "Let them live." So they became cutters of wood and drawers of water for all the congregation, just as the leaders had said of them.
Joshua 9:23
Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you shall never be anything but servants, cutters of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.
Joshua 9:27
But Joshua made them that day cutters of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the Lord, to this day, in the place that he should choose.
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Nehemiah 10:29
Join with their brothers, their nobles, and enter into a curse and an oath to walk in God's Law that was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord our Lord and his rules and his statutes.
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Deuteronomy 28:9
The 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.
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Exodus 6:7
I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
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Genesis 17:7
And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.
Genesis 50:24
And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
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Jeremiah 31:31 - 33
Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
Hebrews 8:8 - 10
For he finds fault with them when he says: "Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
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Acts 2:39
For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.
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Hebrews 12:15
See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no "root of bitterness" springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled.
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Psalms 74:1
O God, why do you cast us off forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
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Psalms 79:5
How long, O Lord ? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
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Deuteronomy 9:14
Let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.
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Deuteronomy 29:24
All the nations will say, 'Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What caused the heat of this great anger?
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Judges 9:45
And Abimelech fought against the city all that day. He captured the city and killed the people who were in it, and he razed the city and sowed it with salt.
Jeremiah 17:6
He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.
Ezekiel 47:11
But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they are to be left for salt.
Zephaniah 2:9
Therefore, as I live," declares the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, "Moab shall become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits, and a waste forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.
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Genesis 19:24 - 25
Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven.
Jeremiah 20:16
Let that man be like the cities that the Lord overthrew without pity; let him hear a cry in the morning and an alarm at noon.
Jeremiah 49:18
As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities were overthrown, says the Lord, no man shall dwell there, no man shall sojourn in her.
Jeremiah 50:40
As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities, declares the Lord, so no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn in her.
2 Peter 2:6
If by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly.
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Genesis 14:2
These kings made war with Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).
Hosea 11:8
How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I hand you over, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender.
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Deuteronomy 29:22
And the next generation, your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, will say, when they see the afflictions of that land and the sicknesses with which the Lord has made it sick -
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1 Kings 9:8 - 9
And this house will become a heap of ruins. Everyone passing by it will be astonished and will hiss, and they will say, 'Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?
Jeremiah 22:8 - 9
"'And many nations will pass by this city, and every man will say to his neighbor, "Why has the Lord dealt thus with this great city?"
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Deuteronomy 28:15 - 68
But if 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 overtake you.
Leviticus 26:14 - 39
But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments.
Daniel 9:11 - 14
All Israel has transgressed your law and turned aside, refusing to obey your voice. And the curse and oath that are written in the Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because we have sinned against him.
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1 Kings 14:15
The Lord will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water, and root up Israel out of this good land that he gave to their fathers and scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their Asherim, provoking the Lord to anger.
2 Chronicles 7:20
Then I will pluck you up from my land that I have given you, and this house that I have consecrated for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
Jeremiah 12:14
Thus says the Lord concerning all my evil neighbors who touch the heritage that I have given my people Israel to inherit: "Behold, I will pluck them up from their land, and I will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.
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Jeremiah 22:26
I will hurl you and the mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born, and there you shall die.
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Deuteronomy 11:26 - 28
See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:
Leviticus 26:40 - 42
But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me.
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Deuteronomy 28:1
And if 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 high above all the nations of the earth.
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Deuteronomy 4:29 - 31
But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
1 Kings 8:47 - 50
Yet if they turn their heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captors, saying, 'We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly.
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Nehemiah 1:9
But if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there I will gather them and bring them to the place that I have chosen, to make my name dwell there.
Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Lamentations 3:40
Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the Lord!
Joel 2:12 - 13
Yet even now," declares the Lord, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.
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Psalms 126:1
When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream.
Psalms 126:4
Restore our fortunes, O Lord, like streams in the Negeb!
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Jeremiah 32:37
Behold, I will gather them from all the countries to which I drove them in my anger and my wrath and in great indignation. I will bring them back to this place, and I will make them dwell in safety.
Ezekiel 34:13
And I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. And I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the ravines, and in all the inhabited places of the country.
Ezekiel 36:24
I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land.
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Deuteronomy 28:64
And the Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
Nehemiah 1:9
But if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there I will gather them and bring them to the place that I have chosen, to make my name dwell there.
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Zephaniah 3:19 - 20
Behold, at that time I will deal with all your oppressors. And I will save the lame and gather the outcast, and I will change their shame into praise and renown in all the earth.
Deuteronomy 28:63
And as the Lord took delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the Lord will take 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.
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Jeremiah 31:33
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord : I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Jeremiah 32:39 - 40
I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their own good and the good of their children after them.
Ezekiel 11:19
And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 36:26 - 27
And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
Deuteronomy 10:16
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn.
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Deuteronomy 30:16
If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you today, by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
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Deuteronomy 28:11
And the Lord will make you abound in prosperity, in the 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.
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Zephaniah 3:19 - 20
Behold, at that time I will deal with all your oppressors. And I will save the lame and gather the outcast, and I will change their shame into praise and renown in all the earth.
Deuteronomy 28:63
And as the Lord took delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the Lord will take 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.
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Isaiah 45:19
I did not speak in secret, in a land of darkness; I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, 'Seek me in vain.' I the Lord speak the truth; I declare what is right.
Isaiah 48:16
Draw near to me, hear this: from the beginning I have not spoken in secret, from the time it came to be I have been there." And now the Lord God has sent me, and his Spirit.
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Romans 10:6 - 8
But the righteousness based on faith says, "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?'" (that is, to bring Christ down)
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Deuteronomy 11:26
See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:
Deuteronomy 32:47
For it is no empty word for you, but your very life, and by this word you shall live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.
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Deuteronomy 30:6
And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
Deuteronomy 6:5
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
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Deuteronomy 29:18
Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the Lord our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit.
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Deuteronomy 4:26
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess. You will not live long in it, but will be utterly destroyed.
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Deuteronomy 30:1
And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you.
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Deuteronomy 10:20
You shall fear the Lord your God. You shall serve him and hold fast to him, and by his name you shall swear.
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Psalms 27:1
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Psalms 66:9
Who has kept our soul among the living and has not let our feet slip.
John 11:25
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live.
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Deuteronomy 1:8
See, I have set the land before you. Go in and take possession of the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their offspring after them.
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