Deuteronomy 28:63-67

63 And as the LORD ¹took delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the LORD will ²take delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you. And you shall be plucked off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.

64 "And the LORD ³ will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and ⁴there you shall serve other gods ⁵of wood and stone, ⁶which neither you nor your fathers have known.

65 And ⁷among these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but ⁸the LORD will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and ⁹a languishing soul.

66 Your life shall hang in doubt before you. Night and day you shall be in dread and have no assurance of your life.

67 ¹⁰In the morning you shall say, 'If only it were evening!' and at evening you shall say, 'If only it were morning!' because of the dread that your heart shall feel, and ¹¹the sights that your eyes shall see.

Deuteronomy 28:63-67 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.

Cross References

• 1. Deuteronomy 30:9; Jeremiah 32:41; Zephaniah 3:17
• 2. [Proverbs 1:26; Isaiah 1:24; Ezekiel 5:13]
• 3. See Leviticus 26:33
• 4. ver. 36
• 5. Deuteronomy 4:28
• 6. Deuteronomy 13:6; Jeremiah 19:4; Jeremiah 44:3
• 7. [Amos 9:4]
• 8. [Leviticus 26:36]
• 9. Leviticus 26:16
• 10. Job 7:3, 4
• 11. ver. 34