Deuteronomy 28:20-22

Curses for Disobedience

20 "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. 21 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. 22 s The Lord will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought 1 and with t blight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish.

  1. Cross References
    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.
  2. Cross References
    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.
  3. Cross References
    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.
  4. Cross References
    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.
  5. Cross References
    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.
  6. Cross References
    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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