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Texts -- Deuteronomy 28:30-68 (NET)

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28:30 You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it. 28:31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your very eyes but you will not eat of it. Your donkey will be stolen from you as you watch and will not be returned to you. Your flock of sheep will be given to your enemies and there will be no one to save you. 28:32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you look on in vain all day , and you will be powerless to do anything about it. 28:33 As for the produce of your land and all your labor , a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives. 28:34 You will go insane from seeing all this. 28:35 The Lord will afflict you in your knees and on your legs with painful, incurable boils – from the soles of your feet to the top of your head . 28:36 The Lord will force you and your king whom you will appoint over you to go away to a people whom you and your ancestors have not known , and you will serve other gods of wood and stone there . 28:37 You will become an occasion of horror , a proverb , and an object of ridicule to all the peoples to whom the Lord will drive you.
The Curse of Reversed Status
28:38 “You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it. 28:39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink wine or gather in grapes, because worms will eat them. 28:40 You will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with olive oil , because the olives will drop off the trees while still unripe. 28:41 You will bear sons and daughters but not keep them, because they will be taken into captivity . 28:42 Whirring locusts will take over every tree and all the produce of your soil . 28:43 The foreigners who reside among you will become higher and higher over you and you will become lower and lower . 28:44 They will lend to you but you will not lend to them; they will become the head and you will become the tail ! 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 you. 28:46 These curses will be a perpetual sign and wonder with reference to you and your descendants .
The Curse of Military Siege
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 you will serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you. They 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 as the eagle flies , 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 . 28:51 They will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed . They will not leave you with any grain , new wine , olive oil , calves of your herds , or lambs of your flocks until they have destroyed you. 28:52 They will besiege all of your villages until all of your high and fortified walls collapse – those in which you put your confidence throughout the land . They will besiege all your villages throughout the land the Lord your God has given you. 28:53 You will then eat your own offspring , the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege by which your enemies will constrict you. 28:54 The man among you who is by nature tender and sensitive will turn against his brother , his beloved wife , and his remaining children . 28:55 He will withhold from all of them his children’s flesh that he is eating (since there is nothing else left ), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages . 28:56 Likewise, the most tender and delicate of your women, who would never think of putting even the sole of her foot on the ground because of her daintiness , will turn against her beloved husband , her sons and daughters , 28:57 and will secretly eat her afterbirth and her newborn children (since she has nothing else ), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages .
The Curse of Covenant Termination
28:58 “If you refuse to obey all the words of this law , the things written in this scroll , and refuse to fear this glorious and awesome name , the Lord your God , 28:59 then the Lord will increase your punishments and those of your descendants – great and long-lasting afflictions and severe , enduring illnesses . 28:60 He will infect you with all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded , and they will persistently afflict you. 28:61 Moreover , the Lord will bring upon you every kind of sickness and plague not mentioned in this scroll of commandments , until you have perished . 28:62 There will be very few of you left , though at one time you were as numerous as the stars in the sky , because you will have disobeyed the Lord your God . 28:63 This is what will happen : Just as the Lord delighted to do good for you and make you numerous , he will take delight in destroying and decimating you. You will be uprooted from the land you are about to possess . 28:64 The Lord will scatter you among all nations , from one end of the earth to the other . There you will worship other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known , gods of wood and stone . 28:65 Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet , for there the Lord will give you an anxious heart , failing eyesight , and a spirit of despair . 28:66 Your life will hang in doubt before you; you will be terrified by night and day and will have no certainty of surviving from one day to the next. 28:67 In the morning you will say , ‘If only it were evening !’ And in the evening you will say , ‘I wish it were morning !’ because of the things you will fear and the things you will see . 28:68 Then the Lord will make you return to Egypt by ship , over a route I said to you that you would never see again . There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves , but no one will buy you.”

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  • Wine

    [ebd] The common Hebrew word for wine is yayin, from a root meaning "to boil up," "to be in a ferment." Others derive it from a root meaning "to tread out," and hence the juice of the grape trodden out. The Greek word for wine is ...

  • Ships

    [ebd] early used in foreign commerce by the Phoenicians (Gen. 49:13). Moses (Deut. 28:68) and Job (9:26) make reference to them, and Balaam speaks of the "ships of Chittim" (Num. 24:24). Solomon constructed a navy at Ezion-geber b...

  • Moses

    [ebd] drawn (or Egypt. mesu, "son;" hence Rameses, royal son). On the invitation of Pharaoh (Gen. 45:17-25), Jacob and his sons went down into Egypt. This immigration took place probably about 350 years before the birth of Moses. ...

  • Madness

    [ebd] This word is used in its proper sense in Deut. 28:34, John 10:20, 1 Cor. 14:23. It also denotes a reckless state of mind arising from various causes, as over-study (Eccl. 1:17; 2:12), blind rage (Luke 6:11), or a depraved te...

  • Jerusalem

    [ebd] called also Salem, Ariel, Jebus, the "city of God," the "holy city;" by the modern Arabs el-Khuds, meaning "the holy;" once "the city of Judah" (2 Chr. 25:28). This name is in the original in the dual form, and means "posses...

  • Heathen

    [ebd] (Heb. plural goyum). At first the word goyim denoted generally all the nations of the world (Gen. 18:18; comp. Gal. 3:8). The Jews afterwards became a people distinguished in a marked manner from the other goyim. They were a...

  • Fruit

    [ebd] a word as used in Scripture denoting produce in general, whether vegetable or animal. The Hebrews divided the fruits of the land into three classes:, (1.) The fruit of the field, "corn-fruit" (Heb. dagan); all kinds of grain...

  • FEVER

    [isbe] FEVER - fe'-ver (qaddachath, dalleqeth; puretos, derived from a root signifying "to burn"): A generic term, applied to all diseases characterized by high temperature of body. Several forms of febrile disease are among the co...

  • EXODUS, THE

    [isbe] EXODUS, THE - ek'-so-dus: I. THE ROUTE 1. The Starting-Point 2. Rameses to Succoth 3. Succoth to Etham 4. Passage of the Sea 5. Other Views of the Route II. THE DATE 1. Old Testament Chronology 2. Date of Conquest of Palesti...

  • Corn

    [ebd] The word so rendered (dagan) in Gen. 27:28, 37, Num. 18:27, Deut. 28:51, Lam. 2:12, is a general term representing all the commodities we usually describe by the words corn, grain, seeds, peas, beans. With this corresponds t...

  • Caterpillar

    [ebd] the consumer. Used in the Old Testament (1 Kings 8:37; 2 Chr. 6:28; Ps. 78:46; Isa. 33:4) as the translation of a word (hasil) the root of which means "to devour" or "consume," and which is used also with reference to the lo...

  • By-word

    [ebd] Hebrew millah (Job 30:9), a word or speech, and hence object of talk; Hebrew mashal (Ps. 44:14), a proverb or parable. When it denotes a sharp word of derision, as in Deut. 28:37, 1 Kings 9:7, 2 Chr. 7:20, the Hebrew shenina...

  • Botch

    [ebd] the name given in Deut. 28:27, 35 to one of the Egyptian plagues (Ex. 9:9). The word so translated is usually rendered "boil" (q.v.).

  • Book

    [ebd] This word has a comprehensive meaning in Scripture. In the Old Testament it is the rendering of the Hebrew word sepher, which properly means a "writing," and then a "volume" (Ex. 17:14; Deut. 28:58; 29:20; Job 19:23) or "rol...

  • Betroth

    [ebd] to promise "by one's truth." Men and women were betrothed when they were engaged to be married. This usually took place a year or more before marriage. From the time of betrothal the woman was regarded as the lawful wife of ...

  • Backsliders

    [nave] BACKSLIDERS. Lev. 26:14-42; Deut. 4:9; Deut. 8:11-14; Deut. 28:58, 59, 63 vs. 15-68;; 1 Kin. 9:6-9; Deut. 29:18 vs. 18-28.; Deut. 32:15-30; Josh. 24:27 vs. 20-27.; 2 Chr. 15:2-4; Ezra 8:22; Job 34:26, 27; Psa. 44:20, 21; Ps...

  • BLAINS

    [ebd] occurs only in connection with the sixth plague of Egypt (Ex. 9:9, 10). In Deut. 28:27, 35, it is called "the botch of Egypt." It seems to have been the fearful disease of black leprosy, a kind of elephantiasis, producing bu...
    [smith] violent ulcerous inflammations, the sixth plague of Egypt, (Exodus 9:9,10) and hence called in (28:27,35) "the botch of Egypt." It seems to have been the black leprosy, a fearful kind of elephantiasis.

  • Anoint

    [ebd] The practice of anointing with perfumed oil was common among the Hebrews. (1.) The act of anointing was significant of consecration to a holy or sacred use; hence the anointing of the high priest (Ex. 29:29; Lev. 4:3) and of...

  • Afflictions and Adversities

    [nave] AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES. List of Sub-Topics Miscellany of Minor Sub-Topics; Unclassified Scriptures Relating to; Benefits of; Benefits of, Illustrated; Consolation in; Deliverance from; Design of; Despondency in; Dispe...

  • APOSTASY; APOSTATE

    [isbe] APOSTASY; APOSTATE - a-pos'-ta-si, a-pos'-tat (he apostasia, "a standing away from"): I.e. a falling away, a withdrawal, a defection. Not found in the English Versions of the Bible, but used twice in the New Testament, in th...

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  • [Deu 28:58] Glorious Is Thy Name, O Lord

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  • Deut. 28:47-48The history of Israel is a picture on the large scale of what befalls every man.A service--we are all born to obedience, to depend on and follow some person or thing. There is only a choice of services; and he w...
  • Milton has caught the spirit of the sad picture in Judges 16:21-22, in that wonderful line, Eyeless, in Gaza, at the mill, with slaves, in which the clauses drop heavily like slow tears, each adding a new touch of woe. The sa...
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