Deuteronomy 28:1-20

Good News Translation

The Blessings of Obedience^(A)

28 ^(B)“If you obey the Lord your God and faithfully keep all his commands that I am giving you today, he will make you greater than any other nation on earth. ² Obey the Lord your God and all these blessings will be yours:

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 grain 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 grain. 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. ¹³ The Lord your God will make you the leader among the nations and not a follower; you will always prosper and never fail if you obey faithfully all his commands that I am giving you today. ¹⁴ But you must never disobey them in any way, or worship and serve other gods.

The Consequences of Disobedience^(C)

¹⁵ “But if you disobey the Lord your God and do not faithfully keep all his commands and laws that I am giving you today, all these evil things will happen to you:

¹⁶ “The Lord will curse your towns and your fields.

¹⁷ “The Lord will curse your grain crops and the food you prepare from them.

¹⁸ “The Lord will curse you by giving you only a few children, poor crops, and few cattle and sheep.

¹⁹ “The Lord will curse everything you do.

²⁰ “If you do evil and reject the Lord, he will bring on you disaster, confusion, and trouble in everything you do, until you are quickly and completely destroyed.