Deuteronomy 28:3–12

^3*“The Lord will bless your towns and your fields.

^4*“The Lord will bless you with many children, with abundant crops, and with many cattle and sheep.

^5*“The Lord will bless your corn crops and the food you prepare from them.

^6*“The Lord will bless everything you do.

^7*“The Lord will defeat your enemies when they attack you. They will attack from one direction, but they will run from you in all directions.

^8*“The Lord your God will bless your work and fill your barns with corn. He will bless you in the land that he is giving you.

^9*“If you obey the Lord your God and do everything he commands, he will make you his own people, as he has promised. ^10*Then all the peoples on earth will see that the Lord has chosen you to be his own people, and they will be afraid of you. ^11*The Lord will give you many children, many cattle, and abundant crops in the land that he promised your ancestors to give you. ^12*He will send rain in season from his rich storehouse in the sky and bless all your work, so that you will lend to many nations, but you will not have to borrow from any.