Deuteronomy 28:30-35

Curses for Disobedience

³⁰ _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. ³¹ 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. ³² _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. 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, ³⁴ so that you are driven mad _i by the sights that your eyes see. ³⁵ 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.

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