-
And it
shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken
diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to
observe and to do all his commandments which I
command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will
set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
02 And all these blessings shall come on thee,
and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the
voice of the Lord thy God.
03 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed
shalt thou be in the field.
04 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and
the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy
cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks
of thy sheep.
05 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
06 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and
blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
07 The Lord shall cause thine enemies that rise
up against thee to be smitten before thy face:
they shall come out against thee one way, and
flee before thee seven ways.
08 The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee
in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest
thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the
land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
09 The Lord shall establish thee an holy people
unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou
shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God,
and walk in his ways.
10 And all people of the earth shall see that
thou art called by the name of the Lord; and they
shall be afraid of thee.
11 And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in
goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit
of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in
the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers to
give thee.
12 The Lord shall open unto thee his good
treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy
land in his season, and to bless all the work of
thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many
nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
13 And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not
the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou
shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto
the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I
command thee this day, to observe and to do them:
14 And thou shalt not go aside from any of the
words which I command thee this day, to the right
hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to
serve them.
15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not
hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to
observe to do all his commandments and his
statutes which I command thee this day; that all
these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake
thee:
16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed
shalt thou be in the field.
17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the
fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and
the flocks of thy sheep.
19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and
cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
20 The Lord shall send upon thee cursing,
vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest
thine hand unto for to do, until thou be
destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because
of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou
hast forsaken me.
21 The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto
thee, until he have consumed thee from off the
land, whither thou goest to possess it.
22 The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption,
and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and
with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and
with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall
pursue thee until thou perish.
23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be
brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be
iron.
24 The Lord shall make the rain of thy land
powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down
upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
25 The Lord shall cause thee to be smitten before
thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against
them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt
be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
26 And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls
of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and
no man shall fray them away.
27 The Lord will smite thee with the botch of
Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab,
and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be
healed.
28 The Lord shall smite thee with madness, and
blindness, and astonishment of heart:
29 And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind
gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper
in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and
spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man
shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house,
and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt
plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes
thereof.
31 Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and
thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be
violently taken away from before thy face, and
shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be
given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have
none to rescue them.
32 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto
another people, and thine eyes shall look, and
fail with longing for them all the day long; and
there shall be no might in thine hand.
33 The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours,
shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and
thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:
34 So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of
thine eyes which thou shalt see.
35 The Lord shall smite thee in the knees, and in
the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be
healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of
thy head.
36 The Lord shall bring thee, and thy king which
thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which
neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and
there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and
stone.
__________________________________ |
37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a
proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither
the Lord shall lead thee.
38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field,
and shalt gather but little in; for the locust
shall consume it.
39 Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them,
but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather
the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.
40 Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy
coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with
the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.
41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou
shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into
captivity.
42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the
locust consume.
43 The stranger that is within thee shall get up
above thee very high; and thou shalt come down
very low.
44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend
to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be
the tail.
45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon
thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee,
till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst
not unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep
his commandments and his statutes which he
commanded thee:
46 And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for
a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.
47 Because thou servedst not the Lord thy God
with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for
the abundance of all things;
48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which
the Lord shall send against thee, in hunger, and
in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all
things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy
neck, until he have destroyed thee.
49 The Lord shall bring a nation against thee
from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as
the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou
shalt not understand;
50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall
not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour
to the young:
51 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and
the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed:
which also shall not leave thee either corn,
wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or
flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed
thee.
52 And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates,
until thy high and fenced walls come down,
wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land:
and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates
throughout all thy land, which the Lord thy God
hath given thee.
53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own
body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters,
which the Lord thy God hath given thee, in the
siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine
enemies shall distress thee:
54 So that the man that is tender among you, and
very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his
brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and
toward the remnant of his children which he shall
leave:
55 So that he will not give to any of them of the
flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because
he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the
straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall
distress thee in all thy gates.
56 The tender and delicate woman among you, which
would not adventure to set the sole of her foot
upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness,
her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her
bosom, and toward her son, and toward her
daughter,
57 And toward her young one that cometh out from
between her feet, and toward her children which
she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want
of all things secretly in the siege and
straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress
thee in thy gates.
58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words
of this law that are written in this book, that
thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name,
THE LORD THY GOD;
59 Then the Lord will make thy plagues wonderful,
and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues,
and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and
of long continuance.
60 Moreover he will bring upon thee all the
diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and
they shall cleave unto thee.
61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which
is not written in the book of this law, them will
the Lord bring upon thee, until thou be
destroyed.
62 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye
were as the stars of heaven for multitude;
because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the
Lord thy God.
63 And it shall come to pass, that as the Lord
rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply
you; so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy
you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be
plucked from off the land whither thou goest to
possess it.
64 And the Lord shall scatter thee among all
people, from the one end of the earth even unto
the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods,
which neither thou nor thy fathers have known,
even wood and stone.
65 And among these nations shalt thou find no
ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have
rest: but the Lord shall give thee there a
trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow
of mind:
66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee;
and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have
none assurance of thy life:
67 In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it
were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God
it were morning! for the fear of thine heart
wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of
thine eyes which thou shalt see.
68 And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt again
with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee,
Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye
shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and
bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
__________________________________ |
