Deuteronomy 28:21-22
Context28:21 The Lord will plague you with deadly diseases 1 until he has completely removed you from the land you are about to possess. 28:22 He 2 will afflict you with weakness, 3 fever, inflammation, infection, 4 sword, 5 blight, and mildew; these will attack you until you perish.
1 tn Heb “will cause pestilence to cling to you.”
2 tn Heb “The
3 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”).
4 tn Heb “hot fever”; NIV “scorching heat.”
5 tn Or “drought” (so NIV, NRSV, NLT).