Deuteronomy 28:15-30

New American Standard Bible

Consequences of Disobedience

¹⁵ “^(A)But it shall come about, if you do not ^[a]obey the Lord your God, to be careful to ^[b]follow all His commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

¹⁶ “^(B)Cursed will you be in the city, and cursed will you be in the ^[c]country.

¹⁷ “^(C)Cursed will be your basket and your kneading bowl.

¹⁸ “^(D)Cursed will be the ^[d]children of your womb, the ^[e]produce of your ground, the newborn of your herd, and the offspring of your flock.

¹⁹ “^(E)Cursed will you be when you come in, and cursed will you be when you go out.

²⁰ “^(F)The Lord will send against you curses, panic, and ^(G)rebuke, in ^[f]everything you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and until ^(H)you perish quickly, on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have abandoned Me. ^21 (I)The Lord will make the plague cling to you until He has eliminated you from the land where you are entering to take possession of it. ^22 (J)The Lord will strike you with consumption, inflammation, fever, feverish heat, and with ^[g]the sword, ^(K)with blight, and with mildew, and they will pursue you until ^(L)you perish. ^23 [h]The heaven which is over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you, iron. ^24 (M)The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.

²⁵ “^(N)The Lord will cause you to be defeated by your enemies; you will go out one way against them, but you will flee seven ways from their presence, and you will ^(O)be an example of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth. ^26 (P)Your dead bodies will ^[i]serve as food for all birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

²⁷ “^(Q)The Lord will strike you with the boils of Egypt and with ^(R)tumors, the festering rash, and with scabies, from which you cannot be healed. ²⁸ The Lord will strike you with insanity, blindness, and with confusion of ^[j]mind; ²⁹ and you will be ^(S)groping about at noon, just as a person who is blind gropes in the darkness, and you will not be successful in your ways; but you will only be ^[k]oppressed and robbed all the time, with no one to save you. ^30 (T)You will ^[l]betroth a woman, but another man will ^[m]violate her; ^(U)you will build a house, but you will not live in it; you will plant a vineyard, but you will not make use of its fruit.