Deuteronomy 28:32

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. ¹ 

Deuteronomy 28:34

28:34 You will go insane from seeing all this.

Deuteronomy 28:67

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.

Deuteronomy 28:1

The Covenant Blessings

28:1 “If you indeed ²  obey the Lord your God and are careful to observe all his commandments I am giving ³  you today, the Lord your God will elevate you above all the nations of the earth.

Deuteronomy 2:33

2:33 the Lord our God delivered him over to us and we struck him down, along with his sons ⁴  and everyone else. ⁵ 

Psalms 78:33

78:33 So he caused them to die unsatisfied ⁶ 

and filled with terror. ⁷ 

Ezekiel 33:10

33:10 “And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what you have said: “Our rebellious acts and our sins have caught up with us, ⁸  and we are wasting away because of them. How then can we live?”’

Zechariah 14:12

14:12 But this will be the nature of the plague with which the Lord will strike all the nations that have fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh will decay while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot away in their sockets, and their tongues will dissolve in their mouths.

¹ tn Heb “and there will be no power in your hand”; NCV “there will be nothing you can do.”

² tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “indeed.”

³ tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I enjoin on you today” (likewise in v. 15).

⁴ tc The translation follows the Qere or marginal reading; the Kethib (consonantal text) has the singular, “his son.”

⁵ tn Heb “all his people.”

⁶ tn Heb “and he ended in vanity their days.”

⁷ tn Heb “and their years in terror.”

⁸ tn Heb “(are) upon us.”