Deuteronomy 28:15

Curses as Reversal of Blessings

28:15 “But if you ignore ¹  the Lord your God and are not careful to keep all his commandments and statutes I am giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you in full force: ² 

Deuteronomy 28:22

28:22 He ³  will afflict you with weakness, ⁴  fever, inflammation, infection, ⁵  sword, ⁶  blight, and mildew; these will attack you until you perish.

Deuteronomy 28:45

28:45 All these curses will fall on you, pursuing and overtaking you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the Lord your God by keeping his commandments and statutes that he has given ⁷  you.

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¹ tn Heb “do not hear the voice of.”

² tn Heb “and overtake you” (so NIV, NRSV); NAB, NLT “and overwhelm you.”

³ tn Heb “The Lord.” See note on “he” in 28:8.

⁴ tn Or perhaps “consumption” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV). The term is from a verbal root that indicates a weakening of one’s physical strength (cf. NAB “wasting”; NIV, NLT “wasting disease”).

⁵ tn Heb “hot fever”; NIV “scorching heat.”

⁶ tn Or “drought” (so NIV, NRSV, NLT).

⁷ tn Heb “commanded”; NAB, NIV, TEV “he gave you.”