But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken to the
 voice of the Lord thy God
 As directed, exhorted, and encouraged to, ( Deuteronomy 28:1 ) 
 to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes, which I
 command thee this day;
 both moral and ceremonial: 
 that all these curses shall come upon thee;
 from the hand of God, certainly, suddenly, and unawares: 
 and overtake thee;
 pursuing after thee, will come up to thee, and seize upon thee, though they may seem to move slowly; see ( Zechariah 5:3 Zechariah 5:4 ) ; namely, the curses which follow. Manasseh Ben Israel F6 divides them into two parts, the first from hence to ( Deuteronomy 28:45 ) ; which respects the destruction of the first temple, and the things that went before or related to that; and the second from thence to the end of the chapter, which he thinks refers to the destruction of the second temple, and their present case and circumstances; and it must be owned that for the most part the distinction may seem to hold good; what is prophesied of that should befall the Jews for their disobedience being more remarkably and distinctly fulfilled in the one than in the other; yet there are things in the whole which respect both, or that were fulfilled, some under one dispensation, and some under another, and some that were fulfilled in both; but chiefly and more manifestly at and since their dispersion by the Romans.