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Chapter 28
1 Now if you will hear the voice of the Lord your God, to do and keep all his commandments, which I command you this day, the Lord your God will make you higher than all the nations that are on the earth.
2 And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you: yet so if you hear his precepts,
3 Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed in the field.
4 Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your cattle, the droves of your herds, and the folds of your sheep.
5 Blessed shall be your barns and blessed your stores.
6 Blessed shall you be coming in and going out.
7 The Lord shall cause your enemies, that rise up against you, to fall down before your face: one way shall they come out against you, and seven ways shall they flee before you.
8 The Lord will send forth a blessing upon your storehouses, and upon all the works of your hands: and will bless you in the land that you shall receive.
9 The Lord will raise you up to be a holy people to himself, as he swore to you: if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and walk in his ways.
10 And all the people of the earth shall see that the name of the Lord is invocated upon you, and they shall fear you.
11 The Lord will make you abound with all goods, with the fruit of your womb, and the fruit of your cattle, with the fruit of your land, which the Lord swore to your fathers that he would give you.
12 The Lord will open his excellent treasure, the heaven, that it may give rain in due season: and he will bless all the works of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, and shall not borrow of any one.
13 And the Lord shall make you the head and not the tail: and you shall be always above, and not beneath: yet so if you will hear the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you this day, and keep and do them,
14 And turn not away from them neither to the right hand, nor to the left, nor follow strange gods, nor worship them.
15 But if you will not hear the voice of the Lord your God, to keep and to do all his commandments and ceremonies, which I command you this day, all these curses shall come upon you, and overtake you.
16 Cursed shall you be in the city, cursed in the field.
17 Cursed shall be your barn, and cursed your stores.
18 Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb, and the fruit of your ground, the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep.
19 Cursed shall you be coming in, and cursed going out.
20 The Lord shall send upon you famine and hunger, and a rebuke upon all the works which you shall do: until he consume and destroy you quickly, for your most wicked inventions, by which you have forsaken me.
21 May the Lord set the pestilence upon you, until he consume you out of the land, which you shall go in to possess.
22 May the Lord afflict you with miser- able want, with the fever and with cold, with burning and with heat, and with corrupted air and with blasting, and pursue you till you perish.
23 Be the heaven, that is over you, of brass: and the ground you tread on, of iron.
24 The Lord give you dust for rain upon your land, and let ashes come down from heaven upon you, till you be consumed.
25 The Lord make you to fall down before your enemies, one way may you go out against them, and flee seven ways, and be scattered throughout all the kingdoms of the earth.
26 And be your carcass meat for all the Fowls of the air, and the beasts of the earth, and be there none to drive them away.
27 The Lord strike you with the ulcer of Egypt, and the part of your body, by which the dung is cast out, with the scab and with the itch: so that you can not be healed.
28 The Lord strike you with madness and blindness and fury of mind.
29 And may you grope at midday as the blind is wont to grope in the dark, and not make straight your ways. And may you at all times suffer wrong, and be oppressed with violence, and may you have no one to deliver you.
30 may you take a wife, and another sleep with her. may you build a house, and not dwell therein. may you plant a vineyard and not gather the vintage thereof.
31 May your ox be slain before you, and you not eat thereof. May your ass be taken away in your sight, and not restored to you. May your sheep be given to your enemies, and may there be none to help you.
32 May your sons and your daughters be given to another people, your eyes looking on, and languishing at the sight of them all the day, and may there be no strength in your hand.
33 May a people which you know not, eat the fruits of your land, and all your labours: and may you always suffer oppression, and be crushed at all times.
34 And be astonished at the terror of those things which your eyes shall see:
35 May the Lord strike you with a very sore ulcer in the knees and in the legs, and be incurable from the sole of the foot to the top of the head.
36 The Lord shall bring you, and your king, whom you shall have appointed over you, into a nation which you and your fathers know not: and there you shall serve strange gods, wood and stone.
37 And you shall be lost, as a proverb and a byword to all people, among whom the Lord shall bring you in.
38 You shall cast much seed into the ground, and gather little: because the locusts shall consume all.
39 You shall plant a vineyard, and dig it, and shall not drink the wine, nor gather any thing thereof: because it shall be wasted with worms.
40 You shall have olive trees in all your borders, and shall not be anointed with the oil: for the olives shall fall off and perish.
41 You shall beget sons and daughters, and shall not enjoy them: because they shall be led into captivity.
42 The blast shall consume all the trees and the fruits of your ground.
43 The stranger that lives with you in the land, shall rise up over you, and shall be higher: and you shall go down, and be lower.
44 He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. He shall be as the head, and you shall be the tail.
45 And all these curses shall come upon you, and shall pursue and overtake you, till you perish: because you heard not the voice of the Lord your God, and did not keep his commandments and ceremonies which he commanded you.
46 And they shall be as signs and wonders on you, and on your seed for ever.
47 Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things:
48 You shall serve your enemy, whom the Lord will send upon you, in hunger, and thirst, and nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put an iron yoke upon your neck, till he consume you.
49 The Lord will bring upon you a nation from afar, and from the uttermost ends of the earth, like an eagle that flies swiftly, whose tongue you can not understand,
50 A most insolent nation, that will shew no regard to the ancients, nor have pity on the infant,
51 And will devour the fruit of your cattle, and the fruits of your land: until you be destroyed, and will leave you no wheat, nor wine, nor oil, nor herds of oxen, nor flocks of sheep: until he destroy you.
52 And consume you in all your cities, end your strong and high walls be brought down, wherein you trusted in all your land. you shall be besieged within your gates in all your land which the Lord your God will give you:
53 And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, and the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, which the Lord your God shall give you, in the distress and extremity wherewith your enemy shall oppress you.
54 The man that is nice among you, and very delicate, shall envy his own brother, and his wife, that lies in his bosom,
55 So that he will not give them of the flesh of his children, which he shall eat: because he has nothing else in the siege and the want, wherewith your enemies shall distress you within all your gates.
56 The tender and delicate woman, that could not go upon the ground, nor set down her foot for over much niceness and tenderness, will envy her husband who lies in her bosom, the flesh of her son, and of her daughter,
57 And the filth of the afterbirths, that come forth from between her thighs, and the children that are born the same hour. For they shall eat them secretly for the want of all things, in the siege and distress, wherewith your enemy shall oppress you within your gates.
58 If you will not keep, and fulfil all the words of this law, that are written in this volume, and fear his glorious and terrible name: that is, The Lord your God:
59 The Lord shall increase your plagues, and the plagues of your seed, plagues great and lasting, infirmities grievous and perpetual.
60 And he shall bring back on you all the afflictions of Egypt, which you were afraid of, and they shall stick fast to you.
61 Moreover the Lord will bring upon you all the diseases, and plagues, that are not written in the volume of this law till he consume you:
62 And you shall remain few in number, who before were as the stars of heaven for multitude, because you heard not the voice of the Lord your God.
63 And as the Lord rejoiced upon you before doing good to you, and multiplying you: so he shall rejoice destroying and bringing you to nought, so that you shall be taken away from the land which you shall go in to possess.
64 The Lord shall scatter you among all people, from the farthest parts of the earth to the ends thereof: and there you shall serve strange gods, which both you are ignorant of and your fathers, wood and stone.
65 Neither shall you be quiet, even in those nations, nor shall there be any rest for the sole of your foot. For the Lord will give you a fearful heart, and languishing eyes, and a soul consumed with pensiveness:
66 And your life shall be as it were hanging before you. you shall fear night and day, neither shall you trust your life.
67 In the morning you shall say: Who will grant me evening? and at evening: Who will grant me morning? for the fearfulness of your heart, wherewith you shall be terrified, and for those things which you shall see with your eyes.
68 The Lord shall bring you again with ships into Egypt, by the way whereof he said to you that you should see it no more. There shall you be set to sale to your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.