1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
2 And all
these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt indeed hearken unto the voice of the
LORD thy God.
3 Blessed
shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.
4 Blessed
shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of
thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
5 Blessed
shall be thy basket [thy barns] and
thy store.
6 Blessed
shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest
out.
7 The LORD
shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy
face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven
ways.
8 The LORD
shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou
settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy
God giveth thee.
9 The LORD
shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee [to thy fathers], if thou shalt keep
the commandments [hear the voice] of
the LORD thy God, and walk in all his
ways.
10 And all
people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and
they shall be afraid of thee.
11 And the
LORD thy God shall make thee
plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle,
and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy
fathers to give thee.
12 The LORD
shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy
land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt
lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow, and thou shalt rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over
thee.
13 And the
LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only,
and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments [to the voice] of the LORD thy God, in all things which I command thee this
day, to observe and to do them:
14 And thou
shalt not go aside from any of the words [commandments]
which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go
after other gods to serve them.
15 But it
shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy
God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command
thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
16 Cursed
shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
17 Cursed
shall be thy basket [thy barns] and
thy store.
18 Cursed
shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy
kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
19 Cursed
shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest
out.
20 The LORD
shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke [want, and famine, and consumption], in all that thou settest
thine hand unto for to do, until thou shall
be utterly destroyed, and until thou
perish [until he shall have consumed thee]
quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings [of thine evil devices], whereby thou hast forsaken me.
21 The LORD
shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from
off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
22 The LORD
shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and cold, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and paleness, and with the sword, and
with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish [until they have destroyed thee].
23 And thy
heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee
shall be iron.
24 The LORD thy God shall make the rain of thy land
powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be
destroyed, and until it shall have
quickly consumed thee.
25 The LORD
shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way
against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all
the kingdoms of the earth.
26 And thy
carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the
earth, and no man shall fray them away.
27 The LORD
will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the malignant scab, and with the itch,
whereof thou canst not be healed.
28 The LORD
shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart [of mind]:
29 And thou
shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not
prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed [unjustly treated] and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save
thee.
30 Thou
shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an
house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt
not gather the grapes thereof.
31 Thine ox
shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass
shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored
to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none
to rescue them.
32 Thy sons
and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes wasting away shall look, and fail with
longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.
33 The fruit
of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up;
and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:
34 So that
thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
35 The LORD
shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot
be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.
36 The LORD
shall bring thee, and thy king [thy
princes] which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou
nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and
stone.
37 And thou
shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword [and a parable, and a tale], among all nations whither the LORD thy God shall lead thee.
38 Thou
shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for
the locust shall consume it.
39 Thou
shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, neither shalt thou delight thyself with it,
nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.
40 Thou
shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint
thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall
utterly cast his fruit.
41 Thou
shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall
go into captivity.
42 All thy
trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust [the blight] consume.
43 The
stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt
come down very low.
44 He shall
lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou
shalt be the tail.
45 Moreover
all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake
thee, till thou be destroyed [until he
shall have consumed thee]; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of
the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded
thee:
46 And they
shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.
47 Because
thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart,
for the abundance of all things;
48 Therefore
shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in
hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he
shall put [and thou shalt wear] a
yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
49 The LORD
shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift
as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
50 A nation
of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew
favour to the young:
51 And he
shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be
destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the
increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he [it] have destroyed thee.
52 And he
shall besiege [have utterly crushed] thee
in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced [strong]
walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he
shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy
God hath given thee.
53 And thou
shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy
daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the
straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:
54 So that
the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil
toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of
his children which he shall leave, which
may have been left to him:
55 So that
he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat:
because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith
thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.
56 The
tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole
of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be
evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her
daughter,
57 And
toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her
children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things
secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee
in thy gates.
58 If thou
wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book,
that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful [wonderful] name, THE LORD THY GOD;
59 Then the
LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great and wonderful plagues, and of long
continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
60 Moreover
he will bring upon thee all the diseases [the
evil pain] of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto
thee.
61 Also
every sickness, and every plague, which is not written, and every one that is written, in the book of this law, them will
the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed [until he shall have destroyed thee].
62 And ye
shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for
multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God.
63 And it
shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to
multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring
you to nought; and ye shall be quickly plucked
from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.
64 And the
LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even
unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor
thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
65 And among
these nations shalt thou find no ease [he
will not give thee quiet], neither shall the sole of thy foot by any means have rest: but the LORD
shall give thee there a trembling heart [another
and a misgiving heart], and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind [and a wasting soul]:
66 And thy
life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and
shalt have none assurance of thy life:
67 In the
morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say,
Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt
fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
68 And the
LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake
unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto
your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.