Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Deuteronomy 28:15-27 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

15. But if thou wilt not hear the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep and to do all his commandments and ceremonies, which I command thee this day, all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.

16. Cursed shalt thou be in the city, cursed in the field.

17. Cursed shall be thy barn, and cursed thy stores.

18. Cursed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, the herds of thy oxen, and the flocks of thy sheep.

19. Cursed shalt thou be coming in, and cursed going out.

20. The Lord shall send upon thee famine and hunger, and a rebuke upon all the works which thou shalt do: until he consume and destroy thee quickly, for thy most wicked inventions, by which thou hast forsaken me.

21. May the Lord set the pestilence upon thee, until he consume thee out of the land, which thou shalt go in to possess.

22. May the Lord afflict thee with miserable want, with the fever and with cold, with burning and with heat, and with corrupted air and with blasting, and pursue thee till thou perish.

23. Be the heaven, that is over thee, of brass: and the ground thou treadest on, of iron.

24. The Lord give thee dust for rain upon thy land, and let ashes come down from heaven upon thee, till thou be consumed.

25. The Lord make thee to fall down before thy enemies, one way mayst thou go out against them, and flee seven ways, and be scattered throughout all the kingdoms of the earth.

26. And be thy carcass meat for all the Fowls of the air, and the beasts of the earth, and be there none to drive them away.

27. The Lord strike thee with the ulcer of Egypt, and the part of thy body, by which the dung is cast out, with the scab and with the itch: so that thou canst not be healed.