Verse 21

Deuteronomy 28:21

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21 Your dead bodies will be food for birds of prey and wild animals, and there won't be anyone to scare them away.

Original Language Text

hebrew

יַדְבֵּ֧ק יְהוָ֛ה בְּ/ךָ֖ אֶת הַ/דָּ֑בֶר עַ֚ד כַּלֹּת֣/וֹ אֹֽתְ/ךָ֔ מֵ/עַל֙ הָֽ/אֲדָמָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר אַתָּ֥ה בָא שָׁ֖מָּ/ה לְ/רִשְׁתָּֽ/הּ

English Translation

The Lord will cling to you the matter until He has finished with you from the land which you are going to possess.

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Chapter 28 Context

1 If you truly obey what the Lord your God (Elohim) tells you, and carefully follow all his commandmen... Focus ↗

2 You will have all the following blessings and even more, if you do what the Lord your God (Elohim) s... Focus ↗

3 You will be blessed when you're in the town; you will be blessed when you're in the countryside. Focus ↗

4 You will be blessed with many children. You will be blessed with good harvests. You will be blessed... Focus ↗

5 The Lord will defeat the enemies who come to attack you. They will come at you from one direction, b... Focus ↗

6 The Lord will bless your income and everything you do. The Lord your God (Elohim) will bless you in... Focus ↗

7 The Lord will make you his holy people, just as he promised you, if you obey the Lord your God (Eloh... Focus ↗

8 Then everyone on earth will see that the Lord has chosen you to be his, and they will be afraid of y... Focus ↗

9 The Lord will make you very prosperous. You will have many children, your livestock will produce ple... Focus ↗

10 The Lord will provide rain for your land at the right time from his heavenly storehouse to bless all... Focus ↗

11 The Lord will put you in first place, not the last. You will only go up, never down, as long as you... Focus ↗

12 Don't deviate from any of my instructions today. Don't go and worship other gods. Focus ↗

13 But if you don't obey the Lord your God (Elohim) by following carefully all his commandments and reg... Focus ↗

14 You will be cursed when you're in the town; you will be cursed when you're in the countryside. Focus ↗

15 You will be cursed by not having children, and by not having good harvests, and by your cattle not h... Focus ↗

16 The Lord will send you curses, making you confused and frustrated in everything you do, until you ar... Focus ↗

17 Then the Lord will hit you with sickness that makes you waste away, with a severe fever and swelling... Focus ↗

18 The sky above you will be like bronze, and the earth beneath you will be like iron. Focus ↗

19 The Lord will change the rain of your land into dust and sand; it will fall from the sky on you unti... Focus ↗

20 The Lord will have your enemies defeat you. You will attack them from one direction, but you will sc... Focus ↗

21 Your dead bodies will be food for birds of prey and wild animals, and there won't be anyone to scare...

22 The Lord will give you boils like he did to the Egyptians, with swellings and scabs and skin rashes... Focus ↗

23 The Lord will drive you mad; he will blind you and confuse you Focus ↗

24 so that even at noon you will be groping around like a blind man in the dark. You won't be successfu... Focus ↗

25 You will be engaged to marry a woman, but another man will sleep with her. You will build a house bu... Focus ↗

26 Your ox will be slaughtered right in front of you, but you won't eat any of it. Your donkey will be... Focus ↗

27 Your sons and daughters will be taken away as slaves to other nations while you watch, and you'll we... Focus ↗

28 A foreign nation you've never heard of will eat all the crops you worked so hard to grow. You will b... Focus ↗

29 The Lord will give you painful boils that can't be cured on your knees and thighs, in fact from head... Focus ↗

30 The Lord will exile you and your chosen king to a foreign nation that neither you nor your forefathe... Focus ↗

31 You will be something that horrifies all the nations where you've been exiled by the Lord. They will... Focus ↗

32 You will sow a lot of seed in the field, but harvest very little because the locusts will destroy it... Focus ↗

33 You will plant vineyards and care for them, but you won't harvest the grapes or drink the wine, beca... Focus ↗

34 You will have olive trees all over the country but you won't have any olive oil to use, because the... Focus ↗

35 You will have sons and daughters, but you won't have them for long, because they will be taken off i... Focus ↗

36 Foreigners who live with you will rise higher and higher in status above you, while you sink lower a... Focus ↗

37 They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the first, and you will be the la... Focus ↗

38 All these curses will come down on you. They will chase after you and attack you until you die becau... Focus ↗

39 They will be lasting evidence, visible signs of what happened to you and your descendants. Focus ↗

40 Because you did not serve the Lord your God (Elohim) with happiness and with a joyful attitude, Focus ↗

41 you will serve your enemies that the Lord sends to attack you. You will be hungry, thirsty, naked, a... Focus ↗

42 The Lord will bring a nation to attack you from a long way off, from the ends of the earth. They wil... Focus ↗

43 They will eat your lambs and calves and the crops you've grown until you are destroyed. They won't l... Focus ↗

44 They will besiege all the towns in your country, until the high, fortified walls that you trust in h... Focus ↗

45 You'll end up eating your children, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God (Elohim) g... Focus ↗

46 The kindest and most sensitive man among you will refuse to share his food with his brother, the wif... Focus ↗

47 The kindest and most sensitive woman among you, so kind and sensitive she wouldn't ever go barefoot... Focus ↗

48 She will even secretly eat the babies she gives birth to, as well as the afterbirth, since she doesn... Focus ↗

49 If you don't carefully observe all these laws written down in this book so that you may show respect... Focus ↗

50 he will bring down on you and your descendants unbelievable disasters, intense and long-lasting dise... Focus ↗

51 He will give you all the diseases you were terrified of in Egypt, and they will stay with you. Focus ↗

52 The Lord will also give you every sickness and disease, even those not recorded in this Book of the... Focus ↗

53 You who grew as numerous as the stars in the sky will end up as only a few, because you would not ob... Focus ↗

54 In the same way as he wanted to make you prosperous and increase in number, so now he will wipe you... Focus ↗

55 The Lord will scatter you among the nations all over the earth, and there you will worship other god... Focus ↗

56 You won't find any place to rest among those nations, no place of your own. The Lord will make you a... Focus ↗

57 You will see your life hanging in the balance as you doubt. You will be afraid day and night, terrif... Focus ↗

58 In the morning you'll say, “I wish it was evening!” and in the evening you'll say, “I wish it was mo... Focus ↗

59 The Lord will send you back to Egypt in ships to a place that I said you weren't ever meant to see a... Focus ↗

Verse Information

Book: Deuteronomy
Chapter: Chapter 28 (59 verses)
Version: Free Bible Version

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