Deuteronomy · Berean Standard Bible
Deuteronomy 28 Berean Standard Bible
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1 “Now if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God and are careful to follow all His commandments I am giving you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
1 It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
2 And all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you, if you will obey the voice of the LORD your God:
2 All these blessings will come upon you, and overtake you, if you listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.
3 You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.
3 You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field.
4 The fruit of your womb will be blessed, as well as the produce of your land and the offspring of your livestock— the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
4 You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.
5 Your basket and kneading bowl will be blessed.
5 Your basket and your kneading trough shall be blessed.
6 You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.
6 You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed when you go out.
7 The LORD will cause the enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you. They will march out against you in one direction but flee from you in seven.
7 Yahweh will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck before you. They will come out against you one way, and will flee before you seven ways.
8 The LORD will decree a blessing on your barns and on everything to which you put your hand; the LORD your God will bless you in the land He is giving you.
8 Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to. He will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
9 The LORD will establish you as His holy people, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.
9 Yahweh will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and walk in his ways.
10 Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will stand in awe of you.
10 All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by Yahweh’s name, and they will be afraid of you.
11 The LORD will make you prosper abundantly—in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land—in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.
11 Yahweh will grant you abundant prosperity in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.
12 The LORD will open the heavens, His abundant storehouse, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but borrow from none.
12 Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow.
13 The LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward, if you hear and carefully follow the commandments of the LORD your God, which I am giving you today.
13 Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail. You will be above only, and you will not be beneath, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you today, to observe and to do,
14 Do not turn aside to the right or to the left from any of the words I command you today, and do not go after other gods to serve them.
14 and shall not turn away from any of the words which I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
15 If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
15 But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come on you and overtake you.
16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.
16 You will be cursed in the city, and you will be cursed in the field.
17 Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed.
17 Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.
18 The fruit of your womb will be cursed, as well as the produce of your land, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.
18 The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock will be cursed.
19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.
19 You will be cursed when you come in, and you will be cursed when you go out.
20 The LORD will send curses upon you, confusion and reproof in all to which you put your hand, until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the wickedness you have committed in forsaking Him.
20 Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.
21 The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land that you are entering to possess.
21 Yahweh will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from off the land where you go in to possess it.
22 The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.
22 Yahweh will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with fiery heat, with the sword, with blight, and with mildew. They will pursue you until you perish.
23 The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.
23 Your sky that is over your head will be bronze, and the earth that is under you will be iron.
24 The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.
24 Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust. It will come down on you from the sky, until you are destroyed.
25 The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
25 Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them, and will flee seven ways before them. You will be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
26 Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the air and beasts of the earth, with no one to scare them away.
26 Your dead bodies will be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there will be no one to frighten them away.
27 The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors and scabs and itch from which you cannot be cured.
27 Yahweh will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with the tumors, with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed.
28 The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness, and confusion of mind,
28 Yahweh will strike you with madness, with blindness, and with astonishment of heart.
29 and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.
29 You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you.
30 You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not enjoy its fruit.
30 You will betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. You will build a house, and you won’t dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, and not use its fruit.
31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will save you.
31 Your ox will be slain before your eyes, and you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be violently taken away from before your face, and will not be restored to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to save you.
32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.
32 Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power in your hand.
33 A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.
33 A nation which you don’t know will eat the fruit of your ground and all of your work. You will only be oppressed and crushed always,
34 You will be driven mad by the sights you see.
34 so that the sights that you see with your eyes will drive you mad.
35 The LORD will afflict you with painful, incurable boils on your knees and thighs, from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
35 Yahweh will strike you in the knees and in the legs with a sore boil, of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
36 The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.
36 Yahweh will bring you, and your king whom you will set over yourselves, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods of wood and stone.
37 You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
37 You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where Yahweh will lead you away.
38 You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.
38 You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it.
39 You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.
39 You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink of the wine, nor harvest, because worms will eat them.
40 You will have olive trees throughout your territory but will never anoint yourself with oil, because the olives will drop off.
40 You will have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you won’t anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off.
41 You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.
41 You will father sons and daughters, but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.
42 Swarms of locusts will consume all your trees and the produce of your land.
42 Locusts will consume all of your trees and the fruit of your ground.
43 The foreigner living among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink down lower and lower.
43 The foreigner who is among you will mount up above you higher and higher, and you will come down lower and lower.
44 He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.
44 He will lend to you, and you won’t lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.
45 All these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the LORD your God and keep the commandments and statutes He gave you.
45 All these curses will come on you, and will pursue you and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you didn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you.
46 These curses will be a sign and a wonder upon you and your descendants forever.
46 They will be for a sign and for a wonder to you and to your offspring forever.
47 Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance,
47 Because you didn’t serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;
48 you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
48 therefore you will serve your enemies whom Yahweh sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.
49 The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand,
49 Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies: a nation whose language you will not understand,
50 a ruthless nation with no respect for the old and no pity for the young.
50 a nation of fierce facial expressions, that doesn’t respect the elderly, nor show favor to the young.
51 They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.
51 They will eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed. They also won’t leave you grain, new wine, oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
52 They will besiege all the cities throughout your land, until the high and fortified walls in which you trust have fallen. They will besiege all your cities throughout the land that the LORD your God has given you.
52 They will besiege you in all your gates until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout all your land. They will besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land which Yahweh your God has given you.
53 Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.
53 You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you.
54 The most gentle and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who have survived,
54 The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining,
55 refusing to share with any of them the flesh of his children he will eat because he has nothing left in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within all your gates.
55 so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left to him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in all your gates.
56 The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she embraces and her son and daughter
56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil toward the husband that she loves, toward her son, toward her daughter,
57 the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.
57 toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of all things in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in your gates.
58 If you are not careful to observe all the words of this law which are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name—the LORD your God—
58 If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, YAHWEH your God,
59 He will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary disasters, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.
59 then Yahweh will make your plagues and the plagues of your offspring fearful, even great plagues, and of long duration, and severe sicknesses, and of long duration.
60 He will afflict you again with all the diseases you dreaded in Egypt, and they will cling to you.
60 He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they will cling to you.
61 The LORD will also bring upon you every sickness and plague not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed.
61 Also every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, Yahweh will bring them on you until you are destroyed.
62 You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left few in number, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
62 You will be left few in number, even though you were as the stars of the sky for multitude, because you didn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.
63 Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and multiply, so also it will please Him to annihilate you and destroy you. And you will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.
63 It will happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You will be plucked from the land that you are going in to possess.
64 Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
64 Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth. There you will serve other gods which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.
65 Among those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.
65 Among these nations you will find no ease, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and pining of soul.
66 So your life will hang in doubt before you, and you will be afraid night and day, never certain of survival.
66 Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be afraid night and day, and will have no assurance of your life.
67 In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread in your hearts of the terrifying sights you will see.
67 In the morning you will say, “I wish it were evening!” and at evening you will say, “I wish it were morning!” for the fear of your heart which you will fear, and for the sights which your eyes will see.
68 The LORD will return you to Egypt in ships by a route that I said you should never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”
68 Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I told you that you would never see it again. There you will offer yourselves to your enemies for male and female slaves, and nobody will buy you.
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- 1 Isaiah 1:19; Exodus 23:22; Leviticus 26:3–13; Luke 11:28; John 15:14
- 2 Zechariah 1:6; Deuteronomy 28:15; 1 Timothy 4:8; Deuteronomy 28:45
- 3 Genesis 39:5; Psalm 144:12–15; Haggai 2:19; Genesis 26:12; Psalm 107:36–37
- 4 Proverbs 10:22; Deuteronomy 7:13; Genesis 49:25; Psalm 128:3; Leviticus 26:9
- 6 Psalm 121:8; Numbers 27:17; 2 Chronicles 1:10; 2 Samuel 3:25; Deuteronomy 31:2
- 7 2 Samuel 22:38–41; Leviticus 26:7–8; Psalm 89:23; 2 Chronicles 32:21–22; 2 Chronicles 19:4
- 8 Deuteronomy 15:10; Leviticus 26:10; Proverbs 3:9–10; Psalm 133:3; Luke 12:18
- 9 Deuteronomy 7:6; Exodus 19:5–6; Deuteronomy 26:18–19; Deuteronomy 13:17; Titus 2:14
- 10 2 Chronicles 7:14; Deuteronomy 11:25; Daniel 9:18–19; Jeremiah 33:9; Numbers 6:27
- 11 Deuteronomy 30:9; Proverbs 10:22; Leviticus 26:9; Deuteronomy 28:4; Psalm 132:11
- 12 Deuteronomy 15:6; Joel 2:23–24; Deuteronomy 11:14; Leviticus 26:4; Deuteronomy 15:10
- 13 Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 4:6–9; Philippians 1:27; Numbers 24:18–19; Isaiah 9:14–15
- 14 Isaiah 30:21; Deuteronomy 5:32; Proverbs 4:26–27; Deuteronomy 11:16; Deuteronomy 11:26–28
- 15 Malachi 2:2; Deuteronomy 28:2; Lamentations 2:17; Romans 2:8–9; Leviticus 26:14–46
- 16 Malachi 3:9–12; Haggai 1:9–11; Jeremiah 44:22; Jeremiah 14:2–5; Lamentations 2:11–22
- 17 Haggai 1:6; Deuteronomy 28:5; Luke 16:25; Psalm 69:22; Zechariah 5:3–4
- 18 Leviticus 26:26; Leviticus 26:19–20; Deuteronomy 28:16; Deuteronomy 5:9; Job 18:16–19
- 19 Deuteronomy 28:6; 2 Chronicles 15:5; Judges 5:6–7
- 20 Isaiah 51:20; Isaiah 66:15; Malachi 2:2; Deuteronomy 4:26; John 3:36
- 21 Leviticus 26:25; Jeremiah 24:10; Jeremiah 16:4; Jeremiah 15:2; Numbers 14:12
- 22 Amos 4:9; Leviticus 26:16; Haggai 2:17; 1 Kings 8:37; 2 Chronicles 6:28
- 23 Leviticus 26:19; Jeremiah 14:1–6; 1 Kings 18:2; 1 Kings 17:1; Amos 4:7
- 24 Deuteronomy 28:12; Isaiah 5:24; Amos 4:11; Job 18:15–21; Genesis 19:24
- 25 Ezekiel 23:46; Isaiah 30:17; Jeremiah 24:9; Deuteronomy 32:30; Deuteronomy 28:7
- 26 Jeremiah 16:4; Jeremiah 34:20; Jeremiah 7:33; Jeremiah 19:7; Jeremiah 8:1
- 27 1 Samuel 5:6; Exodus 15:26; Exodus 9:9; Leviticus 21:20; Deuteronomy 28:35
- 28 2 Thessalonians 2:9–11; Isaiah 19:11–17; Isaiah 6:9–10; Jeremiah 4:9; 1 Samuel 16:14
- 29 Isaiah 59:10; Job 5:14; Judges 6:1–6; Judges 10:8; Psalm 106:40–42
- 30 Amos 5:11; Jeremiah 8:10; Jeremiah 12:13; Isaiah 5:9–10; Lamentations 5:2
- 31 Job 1:14–15; Judges 6:1
- 32 Deuteronomy 28:41; Joel 3:6; Job 17:5; 2 Chronicles 29:9; Lamentations 5:17
- 33 Jeremiah 5:17; Leviticus 26:16; Deuteronomy 28:29–30; Jeremiah 4:17; Jeremiah 5:15
- 34 Isaiah 33:14; Deuteronomy 28:28; Deuteronomy 28:68; Revelation 16:10–11; Jeremiah 25:15–16
- 35 Deuteronomy 28:27; Isaiah 3:17; Isaiah 1:6; Isaiah 3:24; Job 2:6–7
- 36 Deuteronomy 4:28; Jeremiah 16:13; 2 Kings 25:11; 2 Chronicles 36:20; 2 Chronicles 36:6
- 37 Jeremiah 24:9; Jeremiah 25:9; 1 Kings 9:7–8; Psalm 44:13–14; 2 Chronicles 7:20
- 38 Haggai 1:6; Micah 6:15; Joel 1:4; Amos 4:9; Joel 2:25
- 39 Isaiah 17:10–11; Isaiah 5:10; Joel 1:4–7; Jonah 4:7; Joel 2:2–4
- 40 Micah 6:15; Psalm 23:5; Psalm 104:15
- 41 Deuteronomy 28:32; Lamentations 1:5; 2 Kings 24:14
- 42 Amos 7:1–2; Deuteronomy 28:38–39
- 43 Deuteronomy 28:13; 1 Samuel 13:19–23; Judges 4:2–3; 2 Kings 24:14–16; Judges 15:11–12
- 44 Deuteronomy 28:12–13; Lamentations 1:5
- 45 Deuteronomy 28:15; Isaiah 1:20; Jeremiah 7:22–25; Lamentations 2:15–17; Isaiah 65:14–15
- 46 Isaiah 8:18; Ezekiel 14:8; Deuteronomy 28:37; Jeremiah 25:18; Deuteronomy 29:28
- 47 Deuteronomy 16:11; Nehemiah 9:35–37; Deuteronomy 12:7–12; 1 Timothy 6:17–19; Deuteronomy 32:13–15
- 48 Jeremiah 28:13–14; Ezekiel 17:12; Lamentations 5:2–6; Jeremiah 44:22; Ezekiel 4:16–17
- 49 Lamentations 4:19; Jeremiah 48:40; Jeremiah 49:22; Hosea 8:1; Jeremiah 5:15–17
- 50 Isaiah 47:6; 2 Chronicles 36:17; Ecclesiastes 8:1; Proverbs 7:13; Hosea 13:16
- 51 Deuteronomy 28:33; Isaiah 62:8; Jeremiah 15:13; Habakkuk 3:16–17; Jeremiah 17:3
- 52 Ezekiel 4:1–8; Zechariah 12:2; Jeremiah 10:18; 2 Kings 25:1–4; Zephaniah 1:15–16
- 53 Lamentations 4:10; Jeremiah 19:9; Leviticus 26:29; Deuteronomy 28:57; 2 Kings 6:28–29
- 54 Deuteronomy 15:9; Deuteronomy 13:6; Matthew 20:15; Proverbs 28:22; Proverbs 23:6
- 55 Jeremiah 5:10; Jeremiah 34:2; Jeremiah 52:6
- 56 Deuteronomy 28:54; Lamentations 4:3–6; Isaiah 3:16
- 57 Genesis 49:10; Isaiah 49:15
- 58 Isaiah 42:8; Jeremiah 7:26–28; Exodus 3:14–15; Exodus 34:5–7; Hebrews 12:28–29
- 59 Mark 13:19; Daniel 9:12; Deuteronomy 29:20–28; 1 Kings 16:3–4; Deuteronomy 31:17–18
- 60 Deuteronomy 7:15; Exodus 15:26; Deuteronomy 28:27
- 61 Deuteronomy 4:25–26
- 62 Deuteronomy 4:27; Deuteronomy 10:22; Nehemiah 9:23; Isaiah 24:6; 2 Kings 24:14
- 63 Proverbs 1:26; Isaiah 1:24; Ezekiel 5:13; Ezekiel 33:11; Jeremiah 18:7
- 64 Deuteronomy 4:27–28; Leviticus 26:33; Jeremiah 16:13; Deuteronomy 28:36; Nehemiah 1:8
- 65 Leviticus 26:36; Leviticus 26:16; Amos 9:4; Genesis 8:9; Romans 11:10
- 66 Revelation 6:15–17; Lamentations 1:13; Hebrews 10:27; Deuteronomy 28:67
- 67 Deuteronomy 28:34; Job 7:3–4; Revelation 9:6
- 68 Jeremiah 44:12; Jeremiah 43:7; Hosea 8:13; Hosea 9:3; Deuteronomy 17:16
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