Verse 49

Deuteronomy 28:49

World English Bible, British Edition

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49 The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies: a nation whose language you will not understand,

Original Language Text

hebrew

יִשָּׂ֣א יְהוָה֩ עָלֶ֨י/ךָ גּ֤וֹי מֵ/רָחוֹק֙ מִ/קְצֵ֣ה הָ/אָ֔רֶץ כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֥ר יִדְאֶ֖ה הַ/נָּ֑שֶׁר גּ֕וֹי אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא תִשְׁמַ֖ע לְשֹׁנֽ/וֹ

English Translation

The LORD will bring against you a nation from afar, from the end of the earth, like an eagle that flies, a nation whose language you will not understand.

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Chapter 28 Context

1 It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the LORD your God (Elohim)’s voice, to observe to... Focus ↗

2 All these blessings will come upon you, and overtake you, if you listen to the LORD your God (Elohim... Focus ↗

3 You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field. Focus ↗

4 You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals,... Focus ↗

5 Your basket and your kneading trough shall be blessed. Focus ↗

6 You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed when you go out. Focus ↗

7 The LORD will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck before you. They will come out... Focus ↗

8 The LORD will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to. He wi... Focus ↗

9 The LORD will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you shall keep... Focus ↗

10 All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the LORD’s name, and they will be afra... Focus ↗

11 The LORD will grant you abundant prosperity in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestoc... Focus ↗

12 The LORD will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season,... Focus ↗

13 The LORD will make you the head, and not the tail. You will be above only, and you will not be benea... Focus ↗

14 and shall not turn away from any of the words which I command you today, to the right hand or to the... Focus ↗

15 But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the LORD your God (Elohim)’s voice, to observe... Focus ↗

16 You will be cursed in the city, and you will be cursed in the field. Focus ↗

17 Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed. Focus ↗

18 The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of y... Focus ↗

19 You will be cursed when you come in, and you will be cursed when you go out. Focus ↗

20 The LORD will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you put your hand to do, until... Focus ↗

21 The LORD will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from off the land where yo... Focus ↗

22 The LORD will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with fiery heat, with the... Focus ↗

23 Your sky that is over your head will be bronze, and the earth that is under you will be iron. Focus ↗

24 The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust. It will come down on you from the sky, unt... Focus ↗

25 The LORD will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them, and... Focus ↗

26 Your dead bodies will be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there wi... Focus ↗

27 The LORD will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with the tumours, with the scurvy, and with the it... Focus ↗

28 The LORD will strike you with madness, with blindness, and with astonishment of heart. Focus ↗

29 You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways.... Focus ↗

30 You will betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. You will build a house, and you won’t d... Focus ↗

31 Your ox will be slain before your eyes, and you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be violentl... Focus ↗

32 Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look and fail with long... Focus ↗

33 A nation which you don’t know will eat the fruit of your ground and all of your work. You will only... Focus ↗

34 so that the sights that you see with your eyes will drive you mad. Focus ↗

35 The LORD will strike you in the knees and in the legs with a sore boil, of which you cannot be heale... Focus ↗

36 The LORD will bring you, and your king whom you will set over yourselves, to a nation that you have... Focus ↗

37 You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword amongst all the peoples where the LORD will... Focus ↗

38 You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in, for the locust will consume... Focus ↗

39 You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink of the wine, nor harvest, becaus... Focus ↗

40 You will have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you won’t anoint yourself with the oil, f... Focus ↗

41 You will father sons and daughters, but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity. Focus ↗

42 Locusts will consume all of your trees and the fruit of your ground. Focus ↗

43 The foreigner who is amongst you will mount up above you higher and higher, and you will come down l... Focus ↗

44 He will lend to you, and you won’t lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail. Focus ↗

45 All these curses will come on you, and will pursue you and overtake you, until you are destroyed, be... Focus ↗

46 They will be for a sign and for a wonder to you and to your offspring forever. Focus ↗

47 Because you didn’t serve the LORD your God (Elohim) with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, by r... Focus ↗

48 therefore you will serve your enemies whom the LORD sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nake... Focus ↗

49 The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flie...

50 a nation of fierce facial expressions, that doesn’t respect the elderly, nor show favour to the youn... Focus ↗

51 They will eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed. The... Focus ↗

52 They will besiege you in all your gates until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted com... Focus ↗

53 You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom the LORD... Focus ↗

54 The man who is tender amongst you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil towards his brother, towa... Focus ↗

55 so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he ha... Focus ↗

56 The tender and delicate woman amongst you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the... Focus ↗

57 towards her young one who comes out from between her feet, and towards her children whom she bears;... Focus ↗

58 If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may... Focus ↗

59 then the LORD will make your plagues and the plagues of your offspring fearful, even great plagues,... Focus ↗

60 He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they will cling... Focus ↗

61 Also every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, the LORD will bri... Focus ↗

62 You will be left few in number, even though you were as the stars of the sky for multitude, because... Focus ↗

63 It will happen that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so the LORD w... Focus ↗

64 The LORD will scatter you amongst all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the ear... Focus ↗

65 Amongst these nations you will find no ease, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; bu... Focus ↗

66 Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be afraid night and day, and will have no assuranc... Focus ↗

67 In the morning you will say, “I wish it were evening!” and at evening you will say, “I wish it were... Focus ↗

68 The LORD will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I told to you that you woul... Focus ↗

Verse Information

Book: Deuteronomy
Chapter: Chapter 28 (68 verses)
Version: World English Bible, British Edition

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