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Deuteronomy 28 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

The Blessings at Mount Gerizim

Deu 28:1

“Now it shall be, if you diligently [fn]obey the LORD your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I am commanding you today, that the LORD your God will put you high above all the nations of the earth.

Deu 28:2“And all these blessings will come to you and reach you if you [fn]obey the LORD your God:
Deu 28:3

“Blessed will you be in the city, and blessed will you be in the [fn]country.

Deu 28:4

“Blessed will be the [fn]children of your womb, the [fn]produce of your ground, and the [fn]offspring of your animals: the newborn of your herd and the young of your flock.

Deu 28:5

“Blessed will be your basket and your kneading bowl.

Deu 28:6

“Blessed will you be when you come in, and blessed will you be when you go out.

Deu 28:7

“The LORD will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be [fn]defeated by you; they will go out against you one way and will flee at your presence seven ways.

Deu 28:8“The LORD will command the blessing for you in your [fn]barns and in everything that you put your hand to, and He will bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Deu 28:9“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.
Deu 28:10“So all the peoples of the earth will see that [fn]you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will be afraid of you.
Deu 28:11“And the LORD will give you more than enough prosperity, in the [fn]children of your womb, in the [fn]offspring of your livestock, and in the [fn]produce of your ground, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.
Deu 28:12“The LORD will open for you His good storehouse, the heavens, to give rain to your land in its season and to bless every work of your hand; and you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.
Deu 28:13“And the LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you will only be above, and not be underneath, if you listen to the commandments of the LORD your God which I am commanding you today, to [fn]follow them carefully,
Deu 28:14and do not turn aside from any of the words which I am commanding you today, to the right or the left, to pursue other gods to serve them.

Consequences of Disobedience

Deu 28:15

“But it shall come about, if you do not [fn]obey the LORD your God, to be careful to [fn]follow all His commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

Deu 28:16

“Cursed will you be in the city, and cursed will you be in the [fn]country.

Deu 28:17

“Cursed will be your basket and your kneading bowl.

Deu 28:18

“Cursed will be the [fn]children of your womb, the [fn]produce of your ground, the newborn of your herd, and the offspring of your flock.

Deu 28:19

“Cursed will you be when you come in, and cursed will you be when you go out.

Deu 28:20

“The LORD will send against you curses, panic, and rebuke, in [fn]everything you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have abandoned Me.

Deu 28:21“The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has eliminated you from the land where you are entering to take possession of it.
Deu 28:22“The LORD will strike you with consumption, inflammation, fever, feverish heat, and with [fn]the sword, with blight, and with mildew, and they will pursue you until you perish.
Deu 28:23[fn]The heaven which is over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you, iron.
Deu 28:24“The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.
Deu 28:25

“The LORD will cause you to be defeated by your enemies; you will go out one way against them, but you will flee seven ways from their presence, and you will be an example of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Deu 28:26“Your dead bodies will [fn]serve as food for all birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.
Deu 28:27

“The LORD will strike you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, the festering rash, and with scabies, from which you cannot be healed.

Deu 28:28“The LORD will strike you with insanity, blindness, and with confusion of [fn]mind;
Deu 28:29and you will be groping about at noon, just as a person who is blind gropes in the darkness, and you will not be successful in your ways; but you will only be [fn]oppressed and robbed all the time, with no one to save you.
Deu 28:30“You will [fn]betroth a woman, but another man will [fn]violate her; you will build a house, but you will not live in it; you will plant a vineyard, but you will not make use of its fruit.
Deu 28:31“Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat of it; your donkey will be snatched away from you, and will not [fn]be restored to you; your [fn]sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to save you.
Deu 28:32“Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes look on and long for them constantly; but there will be nothing [fn]you can do.
Deu 28:33“A people whom you do not know will eat the produce of your ground and every product of your labor, and you will never be anything but oppressed and mistreated continually.
Deu 28:34“You will also be driven insane by the sight of [fn]what you see.
Deu 28:35“The LORD will strike you on the knees and thighs with severe boils from which you cannot be healed, and strike you from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.
Deu 28:36“The LORD will bring you and your king, whom you appoint over you, to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods, made of wood and stone.
Deu 28:37“And you will become an object of horror, a song of mockery, and an object of taunting among all the peoples where the LORD drives you.
Deu 28:38

“You will bring out a great amount of seed to the field, but you will gather in little, because the locust will devour it.

Deu 28:39“You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but you will neither drink of the wine nor bring in the harvest, because the worm will eat it.
Deu 28:40“You will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, because your olives will drop off prematurely.
Deu 28:41“You will father sons and daughters but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.
Deu 28:42“The cricket will take possession of all your trees and the produce of your ground.
Deu 28:43“The stranger who is among you will rise above you higher and higher, and you will go down lower and lower.
Deu 28:44“He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him; he will be the head, and you will be the tail.
Deu 28:45

“So all these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not [fn]obey the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.

Deu 28:46“And they will become a sign and a wonder [fn]against you and your [fn]descendants forever.
Deu 28:47

“Since you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and a cheerful heart, in gratitude for the abundance of all things,

Deu 28:48you will serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and devoid of all things; and He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
Deu 28:49

“The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, as the eagle swoops down; a nation whose language you will not understand,

Deu 28:50a nation [fn]with a defiant attitude, who will have no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young.
Deu 28:51“Furthermore, it will eat the [fn]offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed; a nation that will leave you no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the newborn of your cattle or the young of your flock, until they have eliminated you.
Deu 28:52“And it will besiege you in all your [fn]towns until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout your land, and it will besiege you in all your [fn]towns throughout your land which the LORD your God has given you.
Deu 28:53“Then you will eat the [fn]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 hardship by which your enemy will [fn]oppress you.
Deu 28:54“The man who is [fn]refined and very delicate among you [fn]will be hostile toward his brother, toward the wife [fn]he cherishes, and toward the rest of his children who are left,
Deu 28:55so 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 hardship by which your enemy will [fn]oppress you in all your [fn]towns.
Deu 28:56“The [fn]refined and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her delicateness and tenderness, [fn]will be hostile toward the husband [fn]she cherishes and toward her son and daughter,
Deu 28:57and toward her afterbirth that comes from between her [fn]legs, and toward her children to whom she gives birth, because she will eat them secretly for lack of anything else, during the siege and the hardship with which your enemy will [fn]oppress you in your [fn]towns.
Deu 28:58

“If you are not careful to [fn]follow all the words of this Law that are written in this book, to [fn]fear this honored and awesome name, [fn]the LORD your God,

Deu 28:59then the LORD will bring extraordinary plagues on you and [fn]your descendants, [fn]severe and lasting plagues, and miserable and chronic sicknesses.
Deu 28:60“And He will bring back on you every disease of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you.
Deu 28:61“Also every sickness and every plague, which are not written in the book of this Law, the LORD will bring on you until you are destroyed.
Deu 28:62“Then you will be left few in [fn]number, whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not [fn]obey the LORD your God.
Deu 28:63“And it will come about that, just as the LORD rejoiced over you to be good to you, and make you numerous, so will the LORD rejoice over you to wipe you out and destroy you; and you will be torn away from the land which you are entering to possess.
Deu 28:64“Furthermore, the LORD will scatter you among all the peoples, from one end of the earth to [fn]the other; and there you will serve other gods, made of wood and stone, which you and your fathers have not known.
Deu 28:65“Among those nations you will find no peace, 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.
Deu 28:66“So your lives will be [fn]hanging in doubt before you; and you will be terrified night and day, and have no assurance of your life.
Deu 28:67“In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ And at evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’ because of the terror of your heart which you fear, and the sight of your eyes which you will see.
Deu 28:68“And the LORD will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way about which I said 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.”
NASB20 Footnotes
Lit listen to the voice of
Lit listen to the voice of
Lit field
Lit fruit
Lit fruit
Lit fruit
Lit struck
Or storehouses
Lit the name of the LORD is called upon you
Lit fruit
Lit fruit
Lit fruit
Lit be careful and to perform
Lit listen to the voice of
Lit perform
Lit field
Lit fruit
Lit fruit
Lit every putting forth of your hand which you do
Another reading is drought
Lit Your
Lit be for
Lit heart
Or exploited
A betrothed couple was considered legally married, but did not yet live together
Or be intimate with
Lit return to
Or flock
Lit to the power of your hand
Lit your eyes which you
Lit listen to the voice of
Or on
Lit seed
Lit defiant-faced
Lit fruit
Lit gates
Lit gates
Lit fruit of your womb
Or torment
Or spoiled and pampered
Lit his eye will be evil toward
Lit of his breast
Or torment
Lit gates
Or spoiled and pampered
Lit her eye shall be evil toward
Lit of her breast
Lit feet
Or torment
Lit gates
Lit perform
Or revere
Heb YHWH
Lit plagues on your seed
Lit great
Lit people
Lit listen to the voice of
Lit the end of the earth
Lit be hung for you in front
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