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Deuteronomy 28:48-58

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48 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he 1will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.
49 2The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, 3swooping down like the eagle, a nation 4whose language you do not understand,
50 a hard-faced nation 5who shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young.
51 It shall 6eat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; it also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
52 "They shall 7besiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land. And they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given you.
53 And 8you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you, 9in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.
54 The man who is the most tender and refined among you will 10begrudge food to his brother, to 11the wife he embraces,[a] and to the last of the children whom he has left,
55 so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, 12in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns.
56 13The most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces,[b] to her son and to her daughter,
57 her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, 14in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.
58 "If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, 15the LORD your God,
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Deuteronomy 28:48-58 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 28

In this chapter Moses enlarges on the blessings and the curses which belong, the one to the doers, the other to the transgressors of the law; the blessings, De 28:1-14; the curses, some of which concern individual persons, others the whole nation and body of people, and that both under the former and present dispensations, and which had their fulfilment in their former captivities, and more especially in their present dispersion, De 28:15-68.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 15

  • 1. Jeremiah 28:14
  • 2. [Jeremiah 5:15-17; Jeremiah 6:22, 23]; See Isaiah 5:26-30
  • 3. Jeremiah 48:40; Jeremiah 49:22; Lamentations 4:19; Hosea 8:1; Habakkuk 1:8; [Ezekiel 17:3, 12]
  • 4. Isaiah 28:11; Isaiah 33:19; Jeremiah 5:15
  • 5. [2 Chronicles 36:17; Isaiah 47:6]
  • 6. ver. 33; Jeremiah 5:17; [Isaiah 62:8, 9]
  • 7. [2 Kings 17:5; 2 Kings 25:1, 2, 4]
  • 8. ver. 57; Leviticus 26:29; Jeremiah 19:9; Ezekiel 5:10; [2 Kings 6:28, 29; Lamentations 2:20; Lamentations 4:10]
  • 9. ver. 55, 57
  • 10. See Deuteronomy 15:9
  • 11. Deuteronomy 13:6
  • 12. ver. 53
  • 13. ver. 54; Isaiah 47:1
  • 14. [See ver. 55 above]
  • 15. Exodus 6:3

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Hebrew the wife of his bosom
  • [b]. Hebrew the husband of her bosom
The English Standard Version is published with the permission of Good News Publishers.