Deuteronomy 28:26-36

26 Your dead bodies will be food for all the birds and wild animals, and there will be no one to scare them away.
27 The Lord will punish you with boils like those the Egyptians had. You will have bad growths, sores, and itches that can't be cured.
28 The Lord will give you madness, blindness, and a confused mind.
29 You will have to feel around in the daylight like a blind person. You will fail in everything you do. People will hurt you and steal from you every day, and no one will save you.
30 You will be engaged to a woman, but another man will force her to have sexual relations with him. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not get its grapes.
31 Your ox will be killed before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away from you, and it will not be brought back. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will save you.
32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, and you will grow tired looking for them every day, but there will be nothing you can do.
33 People you don't know will eat the crops your land and hard work have produced. You will be mistreated and abused all your life.
34 The things you see will cause you to go mad.
35 The Lord will give you sore boils on your knees and legs that cannot be cured, and they will go from the soles of your feet to the tops of your heads.
36 The Lord will send you and your king away to a nation neither you nor your ancestors know, where you will serve other gods made of wood and stone.

Deuteronomy 28:26-36 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.

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