¹⁵“And then^x if you do not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God by diligently observing^y all of his commandments and his statutes that I am commanding you today,^z then all of these curses shall come upon you, and they shall overtake you:

¹⁶“You shall^a be cursed in the city, and you shall be cursed in the field.

¹⁷“Your basket shall be cursed and your kneading trough.

¹⁸“The fruit of your womb shall be cursed and the fruit of your ground, the calves of your cattle and the lambs of your flock.

¹⁹“You shall be cursed when you come in,^b and you shall be cursed when you go out.^c

²⁰“Yahweh will send upon you^d the curse,^e the panic,^f and the threat^g in everything that you undertake,^h until you are destroyed and until you perish quicklyⁱ because of^j the evil of your deeds in that^k you have forsaken me. ²¹Yahweh will cause the plague to cling to you until it consumes you^l from the land that you are going to,^m to take possession of it. ²²Yahweh will afflict you with the wasting diseases and with the fever and with the inflammation and with the scorching heat and with the swordⁿ and with the blight and with the mildew, and they shall pursue you until you perish.^o ²³And your heavens that are over your heads shall be like bronze, and the earth that is under you shall be like iron. ²⁴Yahweh will change the rain of your land to fine dust and to sand; from the heaven it shall come down upon you until you are destroyed.^p

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Footnotes

xLiterally “and it will happen”
yLiterally “to observe and to do”
zLiterally “the day”
aAll of these curses have a future orientation that points to Israel in the land of Canaan
bLiterally “at/in your coming”
cLiterally “at/in your going out”
dOthers translate as a wish: “may Yahweh send upon you …”
eThese words are translated variously, e.g., “starvation,” “thirst,” “rebuke/dysentery” (NEB) or “curses,” “confusion,” “frustration” (NLT)
fOr “confusion”
gOr “rebuke”
hLiterally “in all the sending out of your hand that you do”
iLiterally “until your to be destroyed and until your to perish quickly”
jLiterally “from the face of the evil of your deeds”
kLiterally “which”
lLiterally “it to consume to”
mHebrew “to there”
nOthers translate “drought” (NLT, NEB)
oLiterally “until your/you to perish”
pLiterally “until your being destroyed”