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
28:25 “The Lord will allow you to be struck down before your enemies; you will attack them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions and will become an object of terror 3 to all the kingdoms of the earth.
1 tn Heb “do not hear the voice of.”
2 tn Heb “and overtake you” (so NIV, NRSV); NAB, NLT “and overwhelm you.”
3 tc The meaningless MT reading זַעֲוָה (za’avah) is clearly a transposition of the more commonly attested Hebrew noun זְוָעָה (zÿva’ah, “terror”).