¹⁵However, if you do not obey^e the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today,^f all these curses will come on you and overtake you:^g

¹⁶You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.^h

¹⁷Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.ⁱ

¹⁸The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.^j

¹⁹You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.^k

²⁰The Lord will send on you curses,^l confusion and rebuke^m in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruinⁿ because of the evil^o you have done in forsaking him.^a ²¹The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess.^p ²²The Lord will strike you with wasting disease,^q with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought,^r with blight^s and mildew, which will plague^t you until you perish.^u ²³The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron.^v ²⁴The Lord will turn the rain^w of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.

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Cross references

e 1 Ki 9:6; 2 Ch 7:19
fSee Dt 27:26
g Dt 29:27; Jos 23:15; 2 Ch 12:5; Da 9:11; Mal 2:2
hver 3
iver 5
jver 4
kver 6
lver 8, 15; Lev 26:16; Jer 42:18; Mal 2:2; 3:9; 4:6
m Ps 39:11; 76:6; 80:16; Isa 17:13; 51:20; 54:9; 66:15; Eze 5:15
n Dt 4:26
oSee Ex 32:22
p Lev 26:25; Nu 14:12; Jer 24:10; Am 4:10
qver 48; Dt 32:24
r Lev 26:16; 2 Ki 8:1; Job 12:15; Ps 105:16; Jer 14:1; Hag 1:11; Mal 3:9
s Hag 2:17
tSee Lev 26:25
u Dt 4:26; Am 4:9
vSee Lev 26:19
w Lev 26:19; Dt 11:17; 1 Ki 8:35; 17:1; Isa 5:6; Jer 14:1; Hag 1:10