Deuteronomy 28:15-46
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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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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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