Deuteronomy 28:57-67

57 and [even] concerning her afterbirth {that goes out} from between her feet and [also] concerning her children that she bears, because she eats them for lack of anything in secret {during the siege and during the distress} that your enemy inflicts upon her in your {towns}.
58 "If {you do not diligently observe} all the words of this law written in this scroll by revering this glorious and awesome name, Yahweh your God,
59 then Yahweh shall overwhelm [you] with your plagues and the plagues of your offspring, severe plagues and lasting illnesses, grievous and enduring.
60 And he shall bring back upon you all the diseases of Egypt [concerning] which {you were in dread} {because of them}.
61 Also any illness and any plague that [is] not written in the scroll of this law, he shall bring them, Yahweh, upon you until you are destroyed.
62 And you shall remain {only a few people} in place of [the fact] you were [formerly] as the stars of heaven as far as number [is concerned], because you did not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.
63 {And then} as Yahweh delighted over you {to make you prosperous} to make you numerous, so Yahweh shall delight over you to exterminate you and to destroy you, and [so] you shall be plucked from the land that you [are] going there to take possession of it.
64 And Yahweh shall scatter you among all the nations from [one] end of the earth up to the [other] end of the earth, and there you shall serve other gods that you have not known nor your ancestors, [gods of] wood and stone.
65 And among these nations you shall not find rest, and [there] shall not be a resting place for the sole of your foot, and Yahweh shall give you there an anxious heart and a weakening of eyes and a languishing of [your] inner self.
66 And {your life shall hang in doubt before you}, and you shall be startled night and day, and you shall not be confident of your life.
67 In the morning you shall say, '{If only it was evening}!' and in the evening you shall say '{If only it was morning}!' because of the dread of your heart that you shall feel, and because of the sight of your eyes that you shall see.

Footnotes 19

  • [a]. Literally "the going out"
  • [b]. Literally "in the siege and in the distress"
  • [c]. Literally "gates"
  • [d]. Literally "you observe to do"
  • [e]. Literally "you dreaded"
  • [f]. Literally "from their presence"
  • [g]. Or "each illness and each plague"
  • [h]. Literally "with people of few"
  • [i]. Literally "And it will happen"
  • [j]. Literally "to do good with you"
  • [k]. Or "to cause you to perish"
  • [l]. Hebrew "and"
  • [m]. Or "your fathers"
  • [n]. Or "a failure of eyes"
  • [o]. Or "soul"
  • [p]. Literally "they shall be your life hanging for you in front"
  • [q]. Or "in fear"
  • [r]. Literally "Who shall give evening?"
  • [s]. Literally "Who shall give morning?"
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