Deuteronomy 28

1It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.Cross-references: Ex 15:26 · Ex 23:22 · Lev 26:3 · Deut 7:12 · Deut 11:13 · Deut 15:5 · +20 more

2All these blessings will come upon you, and overtake you, if you listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.Cross-references: Deut 28:15 · Deut 28:45 · Zech 1:6 · 1Tim 4:8

3You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field.Cross-references: Gen 26:12 · Gen 39:5 · Ps 107:36 · Ps 128:1 · Ps 144:12 · Isa 65:21 · +4 more

4You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.Cross-references: Gen 22:17 · Gen 49:25 · Lev 26:9 · Deut 7:13 · Deut 28:11 · Ps 107:38 · +6 more

5Your basket and your kneading trough shall be blessed.

6You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed when you go out.Cross-references: Num 27:17 · Deut 31:2 · 2Sam 3:25 · 2Chr 1:10 · Ps 121:8

7Yahweh will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck before you. They will come out against you one way, and will flee before you seven ways.Cross-references: Lev 26:7 · Deut 28:25 · Deut 32:30 · Josh 8:22 · Josh 10:10 · Josh 10:42 · +10 more

8Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to. He will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.Cross-references: Lev 25:21 · Lev 26:4 · Lev 26:10 · Deut 15:10 · 2Ki 6:27 · Ps 42:8 · +10 more

9Yahweh will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and walk in his ways.Cross-references: Gen 17:7 · Ex 19:5 · Deut 7:6 · Deut 7:8 · Deut 13:17 · Deut 26:18 · +10 more

10All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by Yahweh’s name, and they will be afraid of you.Cross-references: Ex 12:33 · Ex 14:25 · Num 6:27 · Deut 4:6 · Deut 11:25 · Josh 5:1 · +9 more

11Yahweh will grant you abundant prosperity in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.Cross-references: Lev 26:9 · Deut 28:4 · Deut 30:9 · Job 19:17 · Ps 132:11 · Prov 10:22

12Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow.Cross-references: Lev 26:4 · Deut 11:14 · Deut 14:29 · Deut 15:6 · Deut 15:10 · Deut 28:44 · +5 more

13Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail. You will be above only, and you will not be beneath, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you today, to observe and to do,Cross-references: Num 24:18 · Deut 4:6 · Deut 28:1 · Isa 9:14 · Phil 1:27

14and shall not turn away from any of the words which I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.Cross-references: Deut 5:32 · Deut 11:16 · Deut 11:26 · Josh 23:6 · 2Ki 22:2 · Prov 4:26 · +1 more

15But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come on you and overtake you.Cross-references: Lev 26:14 · Deut 27:15 · Deut 28:2 · Deut 29:20 · Josh 23:15 · Isa 3:11 · +5 more

16You will be cursed in the city, and you will be cursed in the field.Cross-references: Gen 3:17 · Gen 4:11 · Gen 5:29 · Gen 8:21 · Deut 28:3 · Deut 28:55 · +24 more

17Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.Cross-references: Deut 28:5 · Ps 69:22 · Prov 1:32 · Hag 1:6 · Zech 5:3 · Mal 2:2 · +1 more

18The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock will be cursed.Cross-references: Lev 26:19 · Lev 26:26 · Deut 5:9 · Deut 28:4 · Deut 28:16 · Job 18:16 · +7 more

19You will be cursed when you come in, and you will be cursed when you go out.Cross-references: Deut 28:6 · Judg 5:6 · 2Chr 15:5

20Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.Cross-references: Lev 26:31 · Lev 26:38 · Deut 4:26 · Josh 23:16 · 1Sam 14:20 · Ps 7:11 · +9 more

21Yahweh will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from off the land where you go in to possess it.Cross-references: Ex 5:3 · Lev 26:25 · Num 14:12 · Num 16:46 · Num 25:9 · 2Sam 24:15 · +5 more

22Yahweh will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with fiery heat, with the sword, with blight, and with mildew. They will pursue you until you perish.Cross-references: Lev 26:16 · 1Ki 8:37 · 2Chr 6:28 · Jer 14:12 · Amos 4:9 · Hag 2:17

23Your sky that is over your head will be bronze, and the earth that is under you will be iron.Cross-references: Lev 26:19 · 1Ki 17:1 · 1Ki 18:2 · Jer 14:1 · Amos 4:7

24Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust. It will come down on you from the sky, until you are destroyed.Cross-references: Gen 19:24 · Deut 28:12 · Job 18:15 · Isa 5:24 · Amos 4:11

25Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them, and will flee seven ways before them. You will be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.Cross-references: Lev 26:17 · Lev 26:36 · Deut 28:7 · Deut 32:30 · Isa 30:17 · Jer 15:2 · +5 more

26Your dead bodies will be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there will be no one to frighten them away.Cross-references: 1Sam 17:44 · Ps 79:1 · Isa 34:3 · Jer 7:33 · Jer 8:1 · Jer 16:4 · +3 more

27Yahweh will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with the tumors, with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed.Cross-references: Ex 9:9 · Ex 9:11 · Ex 15:26 · Lev 13:2 · Lev 21:20 · Deut 28:35 · +6 more

28Yahweh will strike you with madness, with blindness, and with astonishment of heart.Cross-references: 1Sam 16:14 · Ps 60:3 · Isa 6:9 · Isa 19:11 · Isa 43:19 · Jer 4:9 · +4 more

29You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you.Cross-references: Judg 3:14 · Judg 4:2 · Judg 6:1 · Judg 10:8 · Judg 13:1 · 1Sam 13:5 · +15 more

30You will betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. You will build a house, and you won’t dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, and not use its fruit.Cross-references: Deut 20:6 · Job 3:18 · Job 31:10 · Isa 5:9 · Isa 65:21 · Jer 8:10 · +6 more

31Your ox will be slain before your eyes, and you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be violently taken away from before your face, and will not be restored to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to save you.Cross-references: Judg 6:1 · Job 1:14

32Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power in your hand.Cross-references: Num 21:29 · Deut 28:18 · Deut 28:41 · Deut 28:65 · 2Chr 29:9 · Neh 5:2 · +15 more

33A nation which you don’t know will eat the fruit of your ground and all of your work. You will only be oppressed and crushed always,Cross-references: Lev 26:16 · Deut 28:29 · Deut 28:51 · Neh 9:36 · Isa 1:7 · Jer 4:17 · +3 more

34so that the sights that you see with your eyes will drive you mad.Cross-references: Deut 28:28 · Deut 28:68 · Isa 33:14 · Jer 25:15 · Rev 16:10

35Yahweh will strike you in the knees and in the legs with a sore boil, of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.Cross-references: Deut 28:27 · Job 2:6 · Isa 1:6 · Isa 3:17 · Isa 3:24

36Yahweh will bring you, and your king whom you will set over yourselves, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods of wood and stone.Cross-references: Deut 4:28 · Deut 28:64 · 2Ki 17:4 · 2Ki 24:12 · 2Ki 25:6 · 2Ki 25:11 · +15 more

37You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where Yahweh will lead you away.Cross-references: Deut 28:28 · Deut 29:22 · 1Ki 9:7 · 2Chr 7:20 · Ps 44:13 · Jer 24:9 · +3 more

38You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it.Cross-references: Ex 10:14 · Isa 5:10 · Joel 1:4 · Joel 2:3 · Joel 2:25 · Amos 4:9 · +3 more

39You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink of the wine, nor harvest, because worms will eat them.Cross-references: Isa 5:10 · Isa 17:10 · Joel 1:4 · Joel 2:2 · Jonah 4:7

40You will have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you won’t anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off.Cross-references: Ps 23:5 · Ps 104:15 · Mic 6:15

41You will father sons and daughters, but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.Cross-references: Deut 28:32 · 2Ki 24:14 · Lam 1:5

42Locusts will consume all of your trees and the fruit of your ground.Cross-references: Deut 28:38 · Amos 7:1

43The foreigner who is among you will mount up above you higher and higher, and you will come down lower and lower.Cross-references: Deut 28:13 · Judg 2:3 · Judg 2:11 · Judg 4:2 · Judg 10:7 · Judg 14:4 · +8 more

44He will lend to you, and you won’t lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.Cross-references: Deut 28:12 · Lam 1:5

45All these curses will come on you, and will pursue you and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you didn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you.Cross-references: Lev 26:28 · Deut 11:27 · Deut 28:5 · Deut 28:15 · Deut 29:20 · 2Ki 17:20 · +9 more

46They will be for a sign and for a wonder to you and to your offspring forever.Cross-references: Deut 28:37 · Deut 28:59 · Deut 29:20 · Deut 29:28 · Isa 8:18 · Jer 19:8 · +5 more

47Because you didn’t serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;Cross-references: Deut 12:7 · Deut 16:11 · Deut 32:13 · Neh 9:35 · 1Tim 6:17

48therefore you will serve your enemies whom Yahweh sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.Cross-references: 2Chr 12:8 · Neh 9:35 · Isa 47:6 · Jer 5:19 · Jer 17:4 · Jer 27:12 · +10 more

49Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies: a nation whose language you will not understand,Cross-references: Num 24:24 · Isa 5:26 · Jer 4:13 · Jer 5:15 · Jer 6:22 · Jer 48:40 · +12 more

50a nation of fierce facial expressions, that doesn’t respect the elderly, nor show favor to the young.Cross-references: 2Chr 36:17 · Prov 7:13 · Eccl 8:1 · Isa 47:6 · Dan 7:7 · Dan 8:23 · +3 more

51They will eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed. They also won’t leave you grain, new wine, oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.Cross-references: Lev 26:26 · Deut 28:33 · Isa 1:7 · Isa 62:8 · Jer 15:13 · Jer 17:3 · +2 more

52They will besiege you in all your gates until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout all your land. They will besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land which Yahweh your God has given you.Cross-references: Lev 26:25 · 2Ki 17:1 · 2Ki 18:13 · 2Ki 24:10 · 2Ki 25:1 · Isa 1:7 · +15 more

53You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you.Cross-references: Lev 26:29 · Deut 28:18 · Deut 28:55 · Deut 28:57 · 2Ki 6:28 · Jer 19:9 · +4 more

54The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining,Cross-references: Deut 13:6 · Deut 15:9 · 2Sam 12:3 · Ps 103:13 · Prov 23:6 · Prov 28:22 · +5 more

55so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left to him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in all your gates.Cross-references: Jer 5:10 · Jer 34:2 · Jer 52:6

56The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil toward the husband that she loves, toward her son, toward her daughter,Cross-references: Deut 28:54 · Isa 3:16 · Lam 4:3

57toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of all things in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in your gates.Cross-references: Gen 49:10 · Isa 49:15

58If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, YAHWEH your God,Cross-references: Ex 3:14 · Ex 6:2 · Ex 20:2 · Ex 34:5 · Lev 26:14 · Deut 6:13 · +14 more

59then Yahweh will make your plagues and the plagues of your offspring fearful, even great plagues, and of long duration, and severe sicknesses, and of long duration.Cross-references: Deut 28:46 · Deut 29:20 · Deut 31:17 · Deut 32:22 · Deut 32:26 · 1Ki 9:7 · +7 more

60He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they will cling to you.Cross-references: Ex 15:26 · Deut 7:15 · Deut 28:27

61Also every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, Yahweh will bring them on you until you are destroyed.Cross-references: Deut 4:25

62You will be left few in number, even though you were as the stars of the sky for multitude, because you didn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.Cross-references: Lev 26:22 · Deut 4:27 · Deut 10:22 · 2Ki 13:7 · 2Ki 24:14 · Neh 7:4 · +7 more

63It will happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You will be plucked from the land that you are going in to possess.Cross-references: Deut 7:22 · Deut 30:9 · Prov 1:26 · Isa 1:24 · Isa 62:5 · Jer 12:14 · +15 more

64Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth. There you will serve other gods which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.Cross-references: Lev 26:33 · Deut 4:27 · Deut 28:36 · Neh 1:8 · Jer 16:13 · Jer 50:17 · +2 more

65Among these nations you will find no ease, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and pining of soul.Cross-references: Gen 8:9 · Lev 26:16 · Lev 26:36 · Isa 51:17 · Isa 57:21 · Isa 65:14 · +11 more

66Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be afraid night and day, and will have no assurance of your life.Cross-references: Deut 28:67 · Lam 1:13 · Heb 10:27 · Rev 6:15

67In the morning you will say, “I wish it were evening!” and at evening you will say, “I wish it were morning!” for the fear of your heart which you will fear, and for the sights which your eyes will see.Cross-references: Deut 28:34 · Job 7:3 · Rev 9:6

68Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I told you that you would never see it again. There you will offer yourselves to your enemies for male and female slaves, and nobody will buy you.Cross-references: Ex 20:2 · Deut 17:16 · Neh 5:8 · Esth 7:4 · Jer 43:7 · Jer 44:12 · +4 more