Deḇarim (Deuteronomy) 28

Deut 28:1 “And it shall be, if you diligently obey the voice of יהוה your
Elohim, to guard to do all His commands which I command you today, that
יהוה your Elohim shall set you high above all nations of the earth.
Deut 28:2 “And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if
you obey the voice of יהוה your Elohim:
Deut 28:3 “Blessed are you in the city, and blessed are you in the field.
Deut 28:4 “Blessed is the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground and
the fruit of your livestock – the increase of your cattle and the offspring of
your flocks.
Deut 28:5 “Blessed is your basket and your kneading bowl.
Deut 28:6 “Blessed are you when you come in, and blessed are you when
you go out.
Deut 28:7 “ יהוה causes your enemies who rise against you to be smitten
before your face – they come out against you one way and flee before you
seven ways.
Deut 28:8 “ יהוה commands the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all
to which you set your hand, and shall bless you in the land which יהוה your
Elohim is giving you.
Deut 28:9 “ יהוה does establish you as a set-apart people to Himself, as He
has sworn to you, if you guard the commands of יהוה your Elohim and walk in
His ways.
Deut 28:10 “And all peoples of the earth shall see that the Name of יהוה is
called upon you, and they shall be afraid of you.
Deut 28:11 “And יהוה shall make you to have plenty of what is good, in the
fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your
ground, in the land of which יהוה swore to your fathers to give you.
Deut 28:12 “ יהוה opens to you His good treasure, the heavens, to give the
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 do not borrow.
Deut 28:13 “And יהוה shall make you the head and not the tail. And you shall
be only on top, and not be beneath, if you obey the commands of יהוה your
Elohim, which I command you today, to guard and do.
Deut 28:14 “And do not turn aside from any of the Words which I am
commanding you today, right or left, to go after other mighty ones to serve
them.
Deut 28:15 “And it shall be, if you do not obey the voice of יהוה your
Elohim, to guard to do all His commands and His laws which I command you
today, that all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you:
Deut 28:16 “Cursed are you in the city, and cursed are you in the field.
Deut 28:17 “Cursed is your basket and your kneading bowl.
Deut 28:18 “Cursed is the fruit of your body and the fruit of your land, the
increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.
Deut 28:19 “Cursed are you when you come in, and cursed are you when
you go out.
Deut 28:20 “ יהוה sends on you the curse, the confusion, and the rebuke in all
that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish
quickly, because of the evil of your doings by which you have forsaken Me.
Deut 28:21 “ יהוה makes the plague cling to you until He has consumed you
from the land which you are going to possess.
Deut 28:22 “ יהוה smites you with wasting disease, and with inflammation,
and with burning, and with extreme heat, and with the sword, and with blight,
and with mildew. And they shall pursue you until you perish.
Deut 28:23 “And your heavens which are over your head shall be bronze,
and the earth which is under you iron.
Deut 28:24 “ יהוה makes the rain of your land powder and dust; from the
heavens it comes down on you until you are destroyed.
Deut 28:25 “ יהוה causes you to be defeated before your enemies – you go
out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you shall
become a horror to all the reigns of the earth.
Deut 28:26 “And your carcasses shall be food for all the birds of the
heavens and the beasts of the earth, with no one to frighten them away.
Deut 28:27 “ יהוה shall smite you with the boils of Mitsrayim, with tumours,
with the scab, and with the itch, from which you are unable to be healed.
Deut 28:28 “ יהוה shall smite you with madness and blindness and
bewilderment of heart.
Deut 28:29 “And you shall be groping at noon, as a blind man gropes in
darkness, and not prosper in your ways. And you shall be only oppressed and
plundered all the days, with no one to save you.
Deut 28:30 “You become engaged to a wife, but another man does lie with
her. You build a house, but do not dwell in it. You plant a vineyard, but do
not use its fruit.
Deut 28:31 “Your ox is slaughtered before your eyes, but you do not eat of it.
Your donkey is violently taken from before you, and it is not given back to
you. Your sheep are given to your enemies, with no one to save them.
Deut 28:32 “Your sons and your daughters are given to another people, and
your eyes look and fail for them all day long, and your hand powerless.
Deut 28:33 “A people whom you have not known eat the fruit of your land
and all your labours. And you shall be only oppressed and crushed all the
days.
Deut 28:34 “And you shall be maddened because of the sight which your
eyes see.
Deut 28:35 “ יהוה smites you in the knees and on the legs with evil boils of
which you are unable to be healed, and from the sole of your foot to the top
of your head.
Deut 28:36 “ יהוה brings you and the sovereign whom you set over you to a
nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall
serve other mighty ones, wood and stone.
Deut 28:37 “Thus you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a
mockery among all the peoples to which יהוה drives you.
Deut 28:38 “You take much seed out into the field but gather little in, for the
locust consumes it.
Deut 28:39 “You plant vineyards, and shall labour, but you neither drink of
the wine nor gather, for the worm eats it.
Deut 28:40 “You have olive trees in all your border, but do not anoint with
oil, for your olives drop off.
Deut 28:41 “You bring forth sons and daughters, but they are not with you,
for they go into captivity.
Deut 28:42 “Locusts possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground.
Deut 28:43 “The sojourner who is among you rises higher and higher above
you, but you come down lower and lower.
Deut 28:44 “He lends to you, but you do not lend to him. He is the head, and
you are the tail.
Deut 28:45 “And all these curses shall come upon you, and they shall pursue
and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice
of יהוה your Elohim, to guard His commands and His laws which He
commanded you.
Deut 28:46 “And they shall be upon you for a sign and for a wonder, and on
your seed, forever.
Deut 28:47 “Because you did not serve יהוה your Elohim with joy and
gladness of heart for all the plenty,
Deut 28:48 you shall serve your enemies whom יהוה sends against you, in
hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in need of all. And he shall put a
yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.
Deut 28:49 “ יהוה brings a nation against you from afar, from the end of the
earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you shall not
understand,
Deut 28:50 a fierce-looking nation, which shows no regard for the elderly
nor show favour to the young,
Deut 28:51 and they shall eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your
land, until you are destroyed. They leave you no grain, nor new wine, nor oil,
nor the increase of your cattle or the offspring of your flocks, until they have
destroyed you.
Deut 28:52 “And they shall besiege you at all your gates till your high and
fenced walls, in which you are trusting, come down in all your land. And
they shall besiege you at all your gates in all your land which יהוה your
Elohim has given you.
Deut 28:53 “And you shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your
sons and your daughters whom יהוה your Elohim has given you, in the siege
and distress in which your enemies distress you.
Deut 28:54 “The man among you who is tender, and who is very delicate,
his eye is evil against his brother, against the wife of his bosom, and against
the rest of his children whom he leaves behind,
Deut 28:55 against giving any of them the flesh of his children that he eats,
because it is all that has been left to him in the siege and distress with which
your enemy distresses you in all your gates.
Deut 28:56 “The tender and the delicate woman among you, who have not
tried to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her delicateness and
tenderness, her eye is evil against the husband of her bosom, and against her
son, and against her daughter,
Deut 28:57 and against her seed which comes out from between her feet, and
her children whom she bears, for she eats them in secret for lack of all, in the
siege and distress with which your enemy distresses you in all your gates.
Deut 28:58 “If you do not guard to do all the Words of this Torah that are
written in this book, to fear this esteemed and awesome Name, יהוה your
Elohim,
Deut 28:59 then יהוה shall bring upon you and your descendants
extraordinary plagues, great and lasting plagues, and grievous and lasting
sicknesses.
Deut 28:60 “And He shall bring back on you all the diseases of Mitsrayim,
of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you,
Deut 28:61 also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in the
book of this Torah, יהוה does bring upon you until you are destroyed.
Deut 28:62 “And you shall be left with few men, although you had become
as numerous as the stars of the heavens, because you did not obey the voice
of יהוה your Elohim.
Deut 28:63 “And it shall be, that as יהוה rejoiced over you to do you good
and increase you, so יהוה does rejoice over you to destroy you and lay you
waste. And you shall be plucked from off the land which you go to possess.
Deut 28:64 “And יהוה shall scatter you among all peoples, from one end of
the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other mighty ones, which
neither you nor your fathers have known, wood and stone.
Deut 28:65 “And among those nations you are to find no rest, nor have a
resting place for the sole of your foot. But there יהוה shall give you a
trembling heart, and failing eyes, and sorrow of being.
Deut 28:66 “And your life shall be hanging in suspense before you, and you
shall fear day and night, and not be certain of your life.
Deut 28:67 “In the morning you say, ‘Oh, that it were evening!’ And at
evening you say, ‘Oh, that it were morning!’ because of the fear of your heart,
with which you fear, and because of the sight which your eyes see.
Deut 28:68 “And יהוה shall bring you back to Mitsrayim in ships, by a way
of which I said to you, ‘You are never to see it again.’ And there you shall be
sold to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one to buy.”