Deuteronomy 28:15-25

15 But if you do not obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands and laws I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and stay:

16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.

17 Your basket and your kitchen will be cursed.

18 Your children will be cursed, as well as your crops; the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks will be cursed.

19 You will be cursed when you go in and when you go out.

20 The Lord will send you curses, confusion, and punishment in everything you do. You will be destroyed and suddenly ruined because you did wrong when you left him.

21 The Lord will give you terrible diseases and destroy you from the land you are going to take.

22 The Lord will punish you with disease, fever, swelling, heat, lack of rain, plant diseases, and mildew until you die.

23 The sky above will be like bronze, and the ground below will be like iron.

24 The Lord will turn the rain into dust and sand, which will fall from the skies until you are destroyed.

25 The Lord will help your enemies defeat you. You will attack them from one direction, but you will run from them in seven directions. And you will become a thing of horror among all the kingdoms on earth.

Deuteronomy 28:15-25 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.