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Blessings
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| Deuteronomy 28:1 |
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"Now it shall be, if you diligently obey the
LORD your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I command you today,
the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:2 |
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All these blessings will come upon you and overtake
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| Deuteronomy 28:3 |
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"Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed
shall you be in the country. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:4 |
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"Blessed shall be the offspring of your body
and the produce of your ground and the offspring of your beasts, the increase
of your herd and the young of your flock. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:5 |
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"Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading
bowl. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:6 |
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"Blessed shall you be when you come in, and
blessed shall you be when you go out. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:7 |
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"The LORD shall cause your enemies who rise
up against you to be defeated before you; they will come out against you one way
and will flee before you seven ways. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:8 |
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The LORD will command the blessing upon you
in your barns and in all that you put your hand to, and He will bless you in the
land which the LORD your God gives you. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:9 |
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The LORD will establish you as a holy people
to Himself, as He swore to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your
God and walk in His ways. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:10 |
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So all the peoples of the earth will see that
you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will be afraid of you. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:11 |
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The LORD will make you abound in prosperity,
in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your beast and in the produce
of your ground, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:12 |
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The LORD will open for you His good storehouse,
the heavens, to give rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work
of your hand; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:13 |
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The LORD will make you the head and not the
tail, and you only will be above, and you will not be underneath, if you listen
to the commandments of the LORD your God, which I charge you today, to observe
them carefully, |
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| Deuteronomy 28:14 |
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and do not turn aside from any of the words
which I command you today, to the right or to the left, to go after other gods
to serve them. |
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Consequences
of Disobedience |
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| Deuteronomy 28:15 |
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"But it shall come about, if you do not obey
the LORD your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes with
which I charge you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake
you: |
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| Deuteronomy 28:16 |
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"Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed
shall you be in the country. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:17 |
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"Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading
bowl. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:18 |
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"Cursed shall be the offspring of your body
and the produce of your ground, the increase of your herd and the young of your
flock. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:19 |
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"Cursed shall you be when you come in, and
cursed shall you be when you go out. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:20 |
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"The LORD will send upon you curses, confusion,
and rebuke, in all you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and until you
perish quickly, on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken
Me. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:21 |
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The LORD will make the pestilence cling to you
until He has consumed you from the land where you are entering to possess it. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:22 |
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The LORD will smite you with consumption and
with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with the sword and with
blight and with mildew, and they will pursue you until you perish. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:23 |
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The heaven which is over your head shall be
bronze, and the earth which is under you, iron. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:24 |
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The LORD will make the rain of your land powder
and dust; from heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:25 |
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"The LORD shall cause you to be defeated before
your enemies; you will go out one way against them, but you will flee seven ways
before them, and you will be an example of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:26 |
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Your carcasses will be food to all birds of
the sky and to the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them
away. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:27 |
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"The LORD will smite you with the boils of Egypt
and with tumors and with the scab and with the itch, from which you cannot be
healed. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:28 |
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The LORD will smite you with madness and with
blindness and with bewilderment of heart; |
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| Deuteronomy 28:29 |
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and you will grope at noon, as the blind man
gropes in darkness, and you will not prosper in your ways; but you shall only
be oppressed and robbed continually, with none to save you. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:30 |
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You shall betroth a wife, but another man will
violate her; you shall build a house, but you will not live in it; you shall plant
a vineyard, but you will not use its fruit. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:31 |
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Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes,
but you will not eat of it; your donkey shall be torn away from you, and will
not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you will
have none to save you. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:32 |
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Your sons and your daughters shall be given
to another people, while your eyes look on and yearn for them continually; but
there will be nothing you can do. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:33 |
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A people whom you do not know shall eat up
the produce of your ground and all your labors, and you will never be anything
but oppressed and crushed continually. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:34 |
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You shall be driven mad by the sight of what
you see. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:35 |
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The LORD will strike you on the knees and legs
with sore boils, from which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to
the crown of your head. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:36 |
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The LORD will bring you and your king, whom
you set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and
there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:37 |
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You shall become a horror, a proverb, and a
taunt among all the people where the LORD drives you. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:38 |
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"You shall bring out much seed to the field
but you will gather in little, for the locust will consume it. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:39 |
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You shall plant and cultivate vineyards, but
you will neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm will devour
them. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:40 |
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You shall have olive trees throughout your territory
but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:41 |
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You shall have sons and daughters but they will
not be yours, for they will go into captivity. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:42 |
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The cricket shall possess all your trees and
the produce of your ground. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:43 |
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The alien who is among you shall rise above
you higher and higher, but you will go down lower and lower. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:44 |
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He shall lend to you, but you will not lend
to him; he shall be the head, and you will be the tail. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:45 |
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"So all these curses shall come on you and pursue
you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the LORD
your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:46 |
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They shall become a sign and a wonder on you
and your descendants forever. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:47 |
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"Because you did not serve the LORD your God
with joy and a glad heart, for the abundance of all things; |
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| Deuteronomy 28:48 |
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therefore you shall serve your enemies whom
the LORD will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the
lack of all things; and He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed
you. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:49 |
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"The LORD will bring a nation against you from
afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle swoops down, a nation whose language
you shall not understand, |
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| Deuteronomy 28:50 |
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a nation of fierce countenance who will have
no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:51 |
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Moreover, it shall eat the offspring of your
herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed, who also leaves you
no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the increase of your herd or the young of your
flock until they have caused you to perish. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:52 |
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It shall besiege you in all your towns until
your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout your land,
and it shall besiege you in all your towns throughout your land which the LORD
your God has given you. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:53 |
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Then you shall eat the offspring of your own
body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters whom the LORD your God has
given you, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress
you. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:54 |
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The man who is refined and very delicate among
you shall be hostile toward his brother and toward the wife he cherishes and toward
the rest of his children who remain, |
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| Deuteronomy 28:55 |
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so that he will not give even one of them any
of the flesh of his children which he will eat, since he has nothing else left,
during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress you in all
your towns. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:56 |
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The refined and delicate woman among you, who
would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and
refinement, shall be hostile toward the husband she cherishes and toward her son
and daughter, |
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| Deuteronomy 28:57 |
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and toward her afterbirth which issues from
between her legs and toward her children whom she bears; for she will eat them
secretly for lack of anything else, during the siege and the distress by which
your enemy will oppress you in your towns. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:58 |
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"If you are not careful to observe all the
words of this law which are written in this book, to fear this honored and awesome
name, the LORD your God, |
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| Deuteronomy 28:59 |
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then the LORD will bring extraordinary plagues
on you and your descendants, even severe and lasting plagues, and miserable and
chronic sicknesses. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:60 |
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He will bring back on you all the diseases of
Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:61 |
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Also every sickness and every plague which,
not written in the book of this law, the LORD will bring on you until you are
destroyed. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:62 |
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Then you shall be left few in number, whereas
you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not obey the LORD
your God. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:63 |
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It shall come about that as the LORD delighted
over you to prosper you, and multiply you, so the LORD will delight over you to
make you perish and destroy you; and you will be torn from the land where you
are entering to possess it. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:64 |
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Moreover, the LORD will scatter you among all
peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; and there you
shall serve other gods, wood and stone, which you or your fathers have not known. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:65 |
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Among those nations you shall find no rest,
and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there the LORD
will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:66 |
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So your life shall hang in doubt before you;
and you will be in dread night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:67 |
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In the morning you shall say, 'Would that it
were evening!' And at evening you shall say, 'Would that it were morning!' because
of the dread of your heart which you dread, and for the sight of your eyes which
you will see. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:68 |
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The LORD will bring you back to Egypt in ships,
by the way about which I spoke to you, 'You will never see it again!' And there
you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves,
but there will be no buyer." |
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