Deuteronomy 28:38-48

38 "¹You shall bring out much seed to the field but you will gather in little, for ²the locust will consume it.

39 "³You shall plant and cultivate vineyards, but you will neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm will devour them.

40 "⁴You shall have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off.

41 "⁵You shall have sons and daughters but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.

42 "⁶The cricket shall possess all your trees and the produce of your ground.

43 "⁷The alien who is among you shall rise above you higher and higher, but you will go down lower and lower.

44 "⁸He shall lend to you, but you will not lend to him; ⁹he shall be the head, and you will be the tail.

45 "So all these curses shall come on you and pursue you and overtake you ¹⁰until you are destroyed, because you would not obey * the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.

46 "They shall become ¹¹a sign and a wonder on you and your descendants forever *.

47 "¹²Because * you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and a glad heart, for the abundance of all things;

48 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, ¹³in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the lack of all things; and He ¹⁴will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

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Deuteronomy 28:38-48 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 14

1. Isaiah 5:10; Micah 6:15; Haggai 1:6
2. Exodus 10:4; Joel 1:4
3. Isaiah 5:10; Isaiah 17:10, 11
4. Jeremiah 11:16; Micah 6:15
5. Deuteronomy 28:32
6. Deuteronomy 28:38
7. Deuteronomy 28:13
8. Deuteronomy 28:12
9. Deuteronomy 28:13
10. Deuteronomy 4:25, 26
11. Numbers 26:10; Isaiah 8:18; Ezekiel 5:15; Ezekiel 14:8
12. Deuteronomy 12:7; Nehemiah 9:35-37
13. Lamentations 4:4-6
14. Jeremiah 28:13, 14

Footnotes 3

[a]. Lit "beget"
[b]. Lit "listen to the voice of"
[c]. Lit "seed"

Deuteronomy 28:38-48

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Deuteronomy 28:38-48 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 28

Cross References 14

Footnotes 3