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Chapter 28  
     
1.
 And it shall come to pass, if you shall hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I Moses command you this day, that the Lord thy God will set you on high above all nations of the earth:
  
2.
 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if you shall hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God.
  
3.
 Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.
  
4.
 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
  
5.
 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.

 
6.
 Blessed shall you be when you comest in, and blessed shall you be when you goest out.
  
7.
 The Lord shall cause your enemies that rise up against you to be struck before thy face: they shall come out against you one way, and flee before you seven ways.
  
8.
 The Lord shall command the blessing upon you in thy storehouses, and in all that you settest your hand unto; and he shall bless you in the land which the Lord thy God gives thee.
  
9.
 The Lord shall establish you an holy people unto himself, as he has sworn unto thee, if you shall keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways.
  
10.
 And all people of the earth shall see that you art called by the name of the Lord; and they shall be afraid of thee.
  
11.
 And the Lord shall make you plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
  
12.
 The Lord shall open unto you his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you shall lend unto many nations, and you shall not borrow.
  
13.
 And the Lord shall make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall be above only, and you shall not be beneath; if that you hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I Moses command you this day, to observe and to do them:
  
14.
 And you shall not go aside from any of the words which I Moses command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
  
15.
 But it shall come to pass, if you will not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I Moses command you this day; that all these judgments shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
  
16.
 Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.
  
17.
 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
  
18.
 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
  
19.
 Cursed shall you be when you comest in, and cursed shall you be when you goest out.
  
20.
 The Lord shall send upon you cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that you settest your hand unto for to do, until you be destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby you have forsaken me.
  
21.
 The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed you from off the land, whither you goest to possess it.
  
22.
 The Lord shall strike you with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish.
  
23.
 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under you shall be iron.
  
24.
 The Lord shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until you be destroyed.
  
25.
 The Lord shall cause you to be struck by your enemies: you shall go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shall be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
  
26.
 And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.
  
27.
 The Lord will strike you with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof you cannot be healed.
  
28.
 The Lord shall strike you with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:
  
29.
 And you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and you shall not prosper in thy ways: and you shall be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
  
30.
 Thou shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build an house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes of it.
  
31.
 Thine ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat thereof: your ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto your enemies, and you shall have none to rescue them.
  
32.
 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and your eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long; and there shall be no might in your hand.
  
33.
 The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which you knowest not eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed alway:
  
34.
 So that you shall be mad for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.
  
35.
 The Lord shall strike you in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.
  
36.
 The Lord shall bring thee, and thy king which you shall set over thee, unto a nation which neither you nor thy fathers have known; and there shall you serve other gods, wood and stone.

  
37.
 And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.
  
38.
 Thou shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.
  
39.
 Thou shall plant vineyards, and dress them, but shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.
  
40.
 Thou shall have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but you shall not anoint thyself with the oil; for your olive shall cast his fruit.
  
41.
 Thou shall beget sons and daughters, but you shall not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.
  
42.
 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.
  
43.
 The stranger that is within you shall get up above you very high; and you shall come down very low.
  
44.
 He shall lend to thee, and you shall not lend to him: he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
  
45.
 Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till you be destroyed; because you hearkenedst not unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:
  
46.
 And they shall be upon you for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.
  
47.
 Because you servedst not the Lord thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
  
48.
 Therefore shall you serve your enemies which the Lord shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
  
49.
 The Lord shall bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies; a nation whose tongue you shall not understand;
  
50.
 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:
  
51.
 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until you be destroyed: which also shall not leave you either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.
  
52.
 And he shall besiege you in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, in which you trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege you in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the Lord thy God has given thee.
  
53.
 And you shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God has given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith your enemies shall distress thee:
  
54.
 So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:
  
55.
 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he has nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith your enemies shall distress you in all thy gates.  
56.
 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

  
57.
 And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith your enemy shall distress you in thy gates.
  
58.
 If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, THE Lord THY God;
  
59.
 Then the Lord will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
  
60.
 Moreover he will bring upon you all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.
  
61.
 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the Lord bring upon thee, until you be destroyed.  
62.
 And you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because you wouldest not obey the voice of the Lord thy God.
  
63.
 And it shall come to pass, that as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nothing; and you shall be plucked from off the land whither you goest to possess it.
  
64.
 And the Lord shall scatter you among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
  
65.
 And among these nations shall you find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the Lord shall give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
  
66.
 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and you shall fear day and night, and shall have none assurance of thy life:
  
67.
 In the morning you shall say, Would God it were even! and at even you shall say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of your heart wherewith you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.
  
68.
 And the Lord shall bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spoke unto thee, You shall see it no more again: and there you shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
  

 
 
 

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