Verse 23

Deuteronomy 28:23

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

Original Language Text

hebrew

וְ/הָי֥וּ שָׁמֶ֛י/ךָ אֲשֶׁ֥ר עַל רֹאשְׁ/ךָ֖ נְחֹ֑שֶׁת וְ/הָ/אָ֥רֶץ אֲשֶׁר תַּחְתֶּ֖י/ךָ בַּרְזֶֽל

English Translation

And your heavens that are above your head shall be bronze, and the earth that is beneath you shall be iron.

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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... Focus ↗

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

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 ↗

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

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