Deuteronomy 11:17

11:17 Then the anger of the Lord will erupt ¹  against you and he will close up the sky ²  so that it does not rain. The land will not yield its produce, and you will soon be removed ³  from the good land that the Lord ⁴  is about to give you.

Deuteronomy 18:22

18:22 whenever a prophet speaks in my ⁵  name and the prediction ⁶  is not fulfilled, ⁷  then I have ⁸  not spoken it; ⁹  the prophet has presumed to speak it, so you need not fear him.”

Deuteronomy 28:11

28:11 The Lord will greatly multiply your children, ¹⁰  the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil in the land which he ¹¹  promised your ancestors ¹²  he would give you.

Deuteronomy 28:20

Curses by Disease and Drought

28:20 “The Lord will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you ¹³  in everything you undertake ¹⁴  until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me. ¹⁵ 

Deuteronomy 28:48

28:48 instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty ¹⁶  you will serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you. They ¹⁷  will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you.

Deuteronomy 28:63

28:63 This is what will happen: Just as the Lord delighted to do good for you and make you numerous, he ¹⁸  will take delight in destroying and decimating you. You will be uprooted from the land you are about to possess.

Deuteronomy 28:67

28:67 In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ And in the evening you will say, ‘I wish it were morning!’ because of the things you will fear and the things you will see.

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¹ tn Heb “will become hot”; KJV, NASB, NRSV “will be kindled”; NAB “will flare up”; NIV, NLT “will burn.”

² tn Or “heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

³ tn Or “be destroyed”; NAB, NIV “will soon perish.”

⁴ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 11:4.

⁵ tn Heb “the Lord’s.” See note on the word “his” in v. 5.

⁶ tn Heb “the word,” but a predictive word is in view here. Cf. NAB “his oracle.”

⁷ tn Heb “does not happen or come to pass.”

⁸ tn Heb “the Lord has.” See note on the word “his” in v. 5.

⁹ tn Heb “that is the word which the Lord has not spoken.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV); CEV “will give you a lot of children.”

¹¹ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 28:8.

¹² tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 36, 64).

¹³ tn Heb “the curse, the confusion, and the rebuke” (NASB and NIV similar); NRSV “disaster, panic, and frustration.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “in all the stretching out of your hand.”

¹⁵ tc For the MT first person common singular suffix (“me”), the LXX reads either “Lord” (Lucian) or third person masculine singular suffix (“him”; various codices). The MT’s more difficult reading probably represents the original text.

tn Heb “the evil of your doings wherein you have forsaken me”; CEV “all because you rejected the Lord.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “lack of everything.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “he” (also later in this verse). The pronoun is a collective singular referring to the enemies (cf. CEV, NLT). Many translations understand the singular pronoun to refer to the Lord (cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NCV, NRSV, TEV).

¹⁸ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 28:8.