Deuteronomy 28:36   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

The Lord will drive you and the king you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your ancestors. There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone.

Deuteronomy 28:38   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it.

Deuteronomy 28:41   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity.

Deuteronomy 28:42   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

Swarms of locusts will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.

Deuteronomy 28:43   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower.

Deuteronomy 28:46   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever.

Deuteronomy 28:47   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

Because you did not serve the Lord your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity,

Deuteronomy 28:48   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

Deuteronomy 28:49   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand,

Deuteronomy 28:52   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the Lord your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 28:53   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

Because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you.

Deuteronomy 28:54   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children,

Deuteronomy 28:55   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities.

Deuteronomy 28:56   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

The most gentle and sensitive woman among you-so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot-will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter

Deuteronomy 28:57   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For in her dire need she intends to eat them secretly because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of your cities.

Deuteronomy 28:59   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

the Lord will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses.

Deuteronomy 28:61   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

The Lord will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed.

Deuteronomy 28:62   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 28:63   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

Just as it pleased the Lord to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.

Deuteronomy 28:64   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

Then the Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods-gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.

Deuteronomy 28:65   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart.

Deuteronomy 28:66   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life.

Deuteronomy 28:67   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

In the morning you will say, "If only it were evening!" and in the evening, "If only it were morning!"-because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see.

Deuteronomy 28:68   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

The Lord will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again. There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.