Deut.28
[1] And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to
observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will
set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
[2] And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake
thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
[3] Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and
blessed shalt thou be in the field.
[4] Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground,
and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
[5] Blessed shall be thy
basket and thy store.
[6] Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when
thou goest out.
[7] The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before
thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.
[8] The LORD shall
command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and
he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
[9] The LORD shall establish thee
an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the
LORD thy God, and walk in his ways.
[10] And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by
the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.
[11] And the LORD shall make thee plenteous
in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land
which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
[12] The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure,
the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou
shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
[13] And the LORD shall make thee the head,
and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto
the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:
[14]
And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or
to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
[15] But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken
unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which
I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
[16] Cursed
shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
[17] Cursed shall be thy basket and thy
store.
[18] Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the
flocks of thy sheep.
[19] Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou
goest out.
[20] The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest
thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness
of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.
[21] The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto
thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
[22] The LORD
shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme
burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou
perish.
[23] And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall
be iron.
[24] The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down
upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
[25] The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou
shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the
kingdoms of the earth.
[26] And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts
of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.
[27] The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt,
and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
[28] The
LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:
[29] And thou shalt
grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou
shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
[30] Thou shalt betroth a
wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou
shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.
[31] Thine ox shall be slain before thine
eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and
shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none
to rescue them.
[32] Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes
shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.
[33]
The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be
only oppressed and crushed alway:
[34] So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou