Deuteronomy 28:64-68

64 "And the LORD ¹ will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and ²there you shall serve other gods ³of wood and stone, ⁴which neither you nor your fathers have known.

65 And ⁵among these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but ⁶the LORD will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and ⁷a languishing soul.

66 Your life shall hang in doubt before you. Night and day you shall be in dread and have no assurance of your life.

67 ⁸In 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 ⁹the sights that your eyes shall see.

68 And the LORD ¹⁰ will bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey that I promised that ¹¹you should never make again; and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer."

Deuteronomy 28:64-68 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.

Cross References

• 1. See Leviticus 26:33
• 2. ver. 36
• 3. Deuteronomy 4:28
• 4. Deuteronomy 13:6; Jeremiah 19:4; Jeremiah 44:3
• 5. [Amos 9:4]
• 6. [Leviticus 26:36]
• 7. Leviticus 26:16
• 8. Job 7:3, 4
• 9. ver. 34
• 10. Hosea 8:13; Hosea 9:3; [Jeremiah 43:7]
• 11. See Deuteronomy 17:16