Deuteronomy 28:62-65

62 "Then you shall be left few in number, ¹whereas * 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 ²delighted over you to prosper you, and multiply you, so the LORD will ³delight over you to make you perish and destroy you; and you will be ⁴torn from the land where * you are entering to possess it.

64 "Moreover, the LORD will ⁵scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; and there you shall ⁶serve other gods, wood and stone, which you or your fathers have not known.

65 "⁷Among those nations you shall find no rest, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there ⁸the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul.

Deuteronomy 28:62-65 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 1:10; Nehemiah 9:23
• 2. Jeremiah 32:41
• 3. Proverbs 1:26
• 4. Jeremiah 12:14; Jeremiah 45:4
• 5. Leviticus 26:33; Deuteronomy 4:27; Nehemiah 1:8
• 6. Deuteronomy 4:28; Deuteronomy 29:26; Deuteronomy 32:17
• 7. Lamentations 1:3
• 8. Leviticus 26:36

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "listen to the voice of"