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 3 you will serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you. They 4 will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you.
1 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the curses mentioned previously) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “seed” (so KJV, ASV).
3 tn Heb “lack of everything.”
4 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