Deuteronomy 28:27-29

Curses for Disobedience

27 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. 28 The Lord will strike you with b madness and blindness and confusion of mind, 29 and you shall c grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. 1 And you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you.

  1. Cross References
    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.
  2. Cross References
    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.
  3. Cross References
    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.
  4. Cross References
    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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