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Deuteronomy 28:57-67

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57 and toward her afterbirth which issues from between her legs and toward her children whom she bears; for 1she will eat them secretly for lack of anything else, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress you in your towns.
58 "If you are not careful to observe all the words of this law which are written in this book, to 2fear this honored and awesome 3name, the LORD your God,
59 then the LORD will bring extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants, even severe and lasting plagues, and miserable and chronic sicknesses.
60 "4He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you.
61 "Also every sickness and every plague which, not written in the book of this law, the LORD will bring on you 5until you are destroyed.
62 "Then you shall be left few in number, 6whereas * you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not obey * the LORD your God.
63 "It shall come about that as the LORD 7delighted over you to prosper you, and multiply you, so the LORD will 8delight over you to make you perish and destroy you; and you will be 9torn from the land where * you are entering to possess it.
64 "Moreover, the LORD will 10scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; and there you shall 11serve other gods, wood and stone, which you or your fathers have not known.
65 "12Among those nations you shall find no rest, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there 13the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul.
66 "So your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you will be in dread night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life.
67 "14In the morning you shall say, 'Would * that it were evening!' And at evening you shall say, 'Would * that it were morning!' because of the dread of your heart which you dread, and for the sight of your eyes which you will see.
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Deuteronomy 28:57-67 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. 2 Kings 6:28, 29; Lamentations 4:10
  • 2. Psalms 99:3; Malachi 1:14
  • 3. Isaiah 42:8
  • 4. Deuteronomy 28:27
  • 5. Deuteronomy 4:25, 26
  • 6. Deuteronomy 1:10; Nehemiah 9:23
  • 7. Jeremiah 32:41
  • 8. Proverbs 1:26
  • 9. Jeremiah 12:14; Jeremiah 45:4
  • 10. Leviticus 26:33; Deuteronomy 4:27; Nehemiah 1:8
  • 11. Deuteronomy 4:28; Deuteronomy 29:26; Deuteronomy 32:17
  • 12. Lamentations 1:3
  • 13. Leviticus 26:36
  • 14. Job 7:4

Footnotes 9

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