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 28:45

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 ³  you.

Deuteronomy 29:20-21

29:20 The Lord will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger ⁴  will rage ⁵  against that man; all the curses ⁶  written in this scroll will fall upon him ⁷  and the Lord will obliterate his name from memory. ⁸  29:21 The Lord will single him out ⁹  for judgment ¹⁰  from all the tribes of Israel according to all the curses of the covenant written in this scroll of the law.

Deuteronomy 30:1

The Results of Covenant Reaffirmation

30:1 “When you have experienced all these things, both the blessings and the curses ¹¹  I have set before you, you will reflect upon them ¹²  in all the nations where the Lord your God has banished 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 “commanded”; NAB, NIV, TEV “he gave you.”

⁴ tn Heb “the wrath of the Lord and his zeal.” The expression is a hendiadys, a figure in which the second noun becomes adjectival to the first.

⁵ tn Heb “smoke,” or “smolder.”

⁶ tn Heb “the entire oath.”

⁷ tn Or “will lie in wait against him.”

⁸ tn Heb “blot out his name from under the sky.”

⁹ tn Heb “set him apart.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “for evil”; NAB “for doom”; NASB “for adversity”; NIV “for disaster”; NRSV “for calamity.”

¹¹ tn Heb “the blessing and the curse.”

¹² tn Heb “and you bring (them) back to your heart.”