Deuteronomy 28:63-68

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.
68 And Yahweh shall bring you back [to] Egypt in ships by the route that I {promised} to you [that] '{You shall not see it again}!' And you shall sell yourself there to your enemies as slaves and as female slaves, but there will not be a buyer."

Deuteronomy 28:63-68 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.

Footnotes 13

  • [a]. Literally "And it will happen"
  • [b]. Literally "to do good with you"
  • [c]. Or "to cause you to perish"
  • [d]. Hebrew "and"
  • [e]. Or "your fathers"
  • [f]. Or "a failure of eyes"
  • [g]. Or "soul"
  • [h]. Literally "they shall be your life hanging for you in front"
  • [i]. Or "in fear"
  • [j]. Literally "Who shall give evening?"
  • [k]. Literally "Who shall give morning?"
  • [l]. Literally "spoke"
  • [m]. Literally "you shall not do again further to see it/her"
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