Deuteronomy 28:48

instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty ¹  you will serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you. They ²  will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you.

2Ch 12:8; Ne 9:35-37; Isa 47:6; Jer 5:19; Jer 17:4; Jer 27:12,13; Jer 28:13,14; Jer 44:17,18,22,27; La 5:2-6; Eze 4:16,17; Eze 17:3,7,12; Mt 11:29

¹ tn Heb “lack of everything.”

² 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 Lord (cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NCV, NRSV, TEV).