Lexham English Bible

Deuteronomy 28:35-43 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

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.