The Scriptures 1998

Deuteronomy 28:25-36 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

25. “יהוה causes you to be defeated before your enemies – you go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you shall become a horror to all the reigns of the earth.

26. “And your carcasses shall be food for all the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth, with no one to frighten them away.

27. “יהוה shall smite you with the boils of Mitsrayim, with tumours, with the scab, and with the itch, from which you are unable to be healed.

28. “יהוה shall smite you with madness and blindness and bewilderment of heart.

29. “And you shall be groping at noon, as a blind man gropes in darkness, and not prosper in your ways. And you shall be only oppressed and plundered all the days, with no one to save you.

30. “You become engaged to a wife, but another man does lie with her. You build a house, but do not dwell in it. You plant a vineyard, but do not use its fruit.

31. “Your ox is slaughtered before your eyes, but you do not eat of it. Your donkey is violently taken from before you, and it is not given back to you. Your sheep are given to your enemies, with no one to save them.

32. “Your sons and your daughters are given to another people, and your eyes look and fail for them all day long, and your hand powerless.

33. “A people whom you have not known eat the fruit of your land and all your labours. And you shall be only oppressed and crushed all the days.

34. “And you shall be maddened because of the sight which your eyes see.

35. “יהוה smites you in the knees and on the legs with evil boils of which you are unable to be healed, and from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.

36. “יהוה brings you and the sovereign whom you set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other mighty ones, wood and stone.