Deuteronomy 28:15–45

¹⁵But it shall come to pass, ^uif thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and ^wovertake thee: ¹⁶cursed shalt thou be ^xin the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. ¹⁷Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. ¹⁸Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. ¹⁹Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out. ²⁰The Lord ^yshall send upon thee cursing, ^zvexation, and ^arebuke, in all ^bthat thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me. ²¹The Lord shall make ^cthe pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it. ²²The Lord shall smite thee with ^da consumption, and with ^da fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with ^eblasting, and with ^emildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish. ²³And ^fthy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. ²⁴The Lord shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed. ^25gThe Lord shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and ^hshalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth. ²⁶And ⁱthy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and ^jno man shall fray them away. ²⁷The Lord will smite thee with ^kthe botch of Egypt, and with ^lthe emerods, and with ^mthe scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed. ²⁸The Lord shall smite thee with ⁿmadness, and blindness, and ^oastonishment of heart: ²⁹and thou shalt ^pgrope at noondays, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee. ^30qThou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: ^rthou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof. ³¹Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them. ³²Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and ^sfail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be ^tno might in thine hand. ³³The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; ^uand thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway: ³⁴so that thou shalt be mad ^vfor the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. ³⁵The Lord shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore ^wbotch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head. ³⁶The Lord shall ^xbring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and ^ythere shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone. ³⁷And thou shalt become ^zan astonishment, ^aa proverb, and ^za byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee. ^38bThou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for ^cthe locust shall consume it. ³⁹Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them. ⁴⁰Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit. ⁴¹Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for ^dthey shall go into captivity. ⁴²All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume. ^43eThe stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low. ^44fHe shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: ^ehe shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail. ⁴⁵Moreover ^gall these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee: