Lexham English Bible

Deuteronomy 28:31-48 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

31. Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, and you shall not eat it; your donkey shall be stolen right before you, and it shall not be returned to you; your sheep and your goats shall be given to your enemies, and there shall not be anyone who rescues you.

32. Your sons and your daughters shall be given to other people, and you will be looking on longingly for them all day, but you will be powerless to do anything.

33. A people that you do not know shall consume the harvest of your land and all your labor, and you will be only oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives.

34. You shall become mad because of what your eyes shall see.

35. Yahweh shall strike you with grievous boils on the knees and on the upper thighs from which you will not be able to be healed, from the sole of your foot and up to your crown.

36. Yahweh will bring you and your king whom you set up over you to a nation that you or your ancestors have not known, and there you will serve other gods of wood and stone.

37. And you will become a horror and a proverb and ridicule among all the peoples where Yahweh drives you there.

38. “You shall carry out much seed to the field, but you shall gather little produce, for the locust shall devour it.

39. You shall plant vineyards and you shall dress them, but you shall not drink wine and you shall not gather grapes, for the worm shall eat it.

40. There shall be olive trees for you in all of your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself, for your olives shall drop off.

41. You shall bear sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for they shall go into captivity.

42. The cricket shall take possession of all your trees and the fruit of your ground.

43. The alien that is in your midst shall ascend over you, higher and higher, but you shall go down lower and lower.

44. He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, but you shall be the tail.

45. “And all of these curses shall come over you, and they shall pursue you, and they shall overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, by observing his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you.

46. And they shall be among you as a sign and as a wonder and among your offspring forever.

47. “Because of the fact that you did not serve Yahweh your God with joy and with gladness of heart for the abundance of everything,

48. then you shall serve your enemies, whom Yahweh will send against you under conditions of famine, in thirst, in nakedness, and in a lack of everything; and he shall place a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.