Deuteronomio 28:15

15 Ma, se tu non ubbidisci alla voce del Signore Iddio tuo, per osservar di mettere in opera tutti i suoi comandamenti, e i suoi statuti, i quali oggi ti do; egli avverrà che tutte queste maledizioni verranno sopra te, e ti giungeranno.

Deuteronomio 28:15 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 28:15

But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken to the
voice of the Lord thy God
As directed, exhorted, and encouraged to, ( Deuteronomy 28:1 )

to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes, which I
command thee this day;
both moral and ceremonial:

that all these curses shall come upon thee;
from the hand of God, certainly, suddenly, and unawares:

and overtake thee;
pursuing after thee, will come up to thee, and seize upon thee, though they may seem to move slowly; see ( Zechariah 5:3 Zechariah 5:4 ) ; namely, the curses which follow. Manasseh Ben Israel ^F6 divides them into two parts, the first from hence to ( Deuteronomy 28:45 ) ; which respects the destruction of the first temple, and the things that went before or related to that; and the second from thence to the end of the chapter, which he thinks refers to the destruction of the second temple, and their present case and circumstances; and it must be owned that for the most part the distinction may seem to hold good; what is prophesied of that should befall the Jews for their disobedience being more remarkably and distinctly fulfilled in the one than in the other; yet there are things in the whole which respect both, or that were fulfilled, some under one dispensation, and some under another, and some that were fulfilled in both; but chiefly and more manifestly at and since their dispersion by the Romans.

---

FOOTNOTES:

F6 De Termino Vitae, l. 3. sect. 3. p. 126.

Deuteronomio 28:15 In-Context

13 Il Signore ti metterà in capo, e non in coda; e non sarai giammai se non al disopra, e non al disotto; quando tu ubbidirai a’ comandamenti del Signore Iddio tuo, i quali oggi ti do, per osservarli, e per metterli in opera;

14 e non ti rivolgerai nè a destra nè a sinistra, d’alcuna delle cose che io ti comando oggi, per andar dietro ad altri dii, per servirli.

15 Ma, se tu non ubbidisci alla voce del Signore Iddio tuo, per osservar di mettere in opera tutti i suoi comandamenti, e i suoi statuti, i quali oggi ti do; egli avverrà che tutte queste maledizioni verranno sopra te, e ti giungeranno.

16 Tu sarai maledetto nella città, sarai ancora maledetto ne’ campi.

17 Il tuo paniere sarà maledetto, e la tua madia.