Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 28:45-50 
Context28:45 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 1 you. 28:46 These curses 2 will be a perpetual sign and wonder with reference to you and your descendants. 3
28:47 “Because you have not served the Lord your God joyfully and wholeheartedly with the abundance of everything you have, 28:48 instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty 4 you will serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you. They 5 will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you. 28:49 The Lord will raise up a distant nation against you, one from the other side of the earth 6 as the eagle flies, 7 a nation whose language you will not understand, 28:50 a nation of stern appearance that will have no regard for the elderly or pity for the young.
1 tn Heb “commanded”; NAB, NIV, TEV “he gave you.”
2 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the curses mentioned previously) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 tn Heb “seed” (so KJV, ASV).
4 tn Heb “lack of everything.”
5 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
6 tn Heb “from the end of the earth.”
7 tn Some translations understand this to mean “like an eagle swoops down” (e.g., NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT), comparing the swift attack of an eagle to the attack of the Israelites’ enemies.
