Deuteronomy 28:41
41 You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity.
Other Translations of Deuteronomy 28:41
King James Version
41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.
English Standard Version
41 You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for they shall go into captivity.
The Message
41 You'll have sons and daughters but they won't be yours for long - they'll go off to captivity.
New King James Version
41 You shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity.
New Living Translation
41 You will have sons and daughters, but you will lose them, for they will be led away into captivity.
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Matthew Henry's Commentary on Deuteronomy 28:41
Commentary on Deuteronomy 28:15-44
(Read Deuteronomy 28:15-44)
If we do not keep God's commandments, we not only come short of the blessing promised, but we lay ourselves under the curse, which includes all misery, as the blessing all happiness. Observe the justice of this curse. It is not a curse causeless, or for some light cause. The extent and power of this curse. Wherever the sinner goes, the curse of God follows; wherever he is, it rests upon him. Whatever he has is under a curse. All his enjoyments are made bitter; he cannot take any true comfort in them, for the wrath of God mixes itself with them. Many judgments are here stated, which would be the fruits of the curse, and with which God would punish the people of the Jews, for their apostacy and disobedience. We may observe the fulfilling of these threatenings in their present state. To complete their misery, it is threatened that by these troubles they should be bereaved of all comfort and hope, and left to utter despair. Those who walk by sight, and not by faith, are in danger of losing reason itself, when every thing about them looks frightful.