Verse 33
Deuteronomy 28:33
Bible in Basic English
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The fruit of your land and all the work of your hands will be food for a nation which is strange to you and to your fathers; you will only be crushed down and kept under for ever:
Original Language Text
hebrew
פְּרִ֤י אַדְמָֽתְ/ךָ֙ וְ/כָל יְגִ֣יעֲ/ךָ֔ יֹאכַ֥ל עַ֖ם אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹא יָדָ֑עְתָּ וְ/הָיִ֗יתָ רַ֛ק עָשׁ֥וּק וְ/רָצ֖וּץ כָּל הַ/יָּמִֽים
English Translation
The fruit of your land and all your labor will be eaten by a nation you do not know, and you will be only oppressed and crushed all the days.
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Chapter 28 Context
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Now if you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God (Elohim), and keep with care all these orders...
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And all these blessings will come on you and overtake you, if your ears are open to the voice of the...
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A blessing will be on you in the town, and a blessing in the field.
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A blessing will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the fruit of your ca...
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A blessing will be on your basket and on your bread-basin.
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A blessing will be on your coming in and on your going out.
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By the power of the Lord, those who take arms against you will be overcome before you: they will com...
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The Lord will send his blessing on your store-houses and on everything to which you put your hand: h...
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The Lord will keep you as a people holy to himself, as he has said to you in his oath, if you keep t...
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And all the peoples of the earth will see that the name of the Lord is on you, and they will go in f...
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And the Lord will make you fertile in every good thing, in the fruit of your body, and the fruit of...
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Opening his store-house in heaven, the Lord will send rain on your land at the right time, blessing...
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The Lord will make you the head and not the tail; and you will ever have the highest place, if you g...
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Not turning away from any of the orders which I give you today, to the right hand or to the left, or...
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But if you do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God (Elohim), and take care to do all his o...
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You will be cursed in the town and cursed in the field.
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A curse will be on your basket and on your bread-basin.
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A curse will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the increase of your ca...
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You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.
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The Lord will send on you cursing and trouble and punishment in everything to which you put your han...
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The Lord will send disease after disease on you, till you have been cut off by death from the land t...
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The Lord will send wasting disease, and burning pain, and flaming heat against you, keeping back the...
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And the heaven over your heads will be brass, and the earth under you hard as iron.
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The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust, sending it down on you from heaven till yo...
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The Lord will let you be overcome by your haters: you will go out against them one way, and you will...
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Your bodies will be meat for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth; there will be no...
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The Lord will send on you the disease of Egypt, and other sorts of skin diseases which nothing will...
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He will make your minds diseased, and your eyes blind, and your hearts wasted with fear:
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You will go feeling your way when the sun is high, like a blind man for whom all is dark, and nothin...
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You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made...
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Your ox will be put to death before your eyes, but its flesh will not be your food: your ass will be...
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Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, and your eyes will be wasted away with...
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The fruit of your land and all the work of your hands will be food for a nation which is strange to...
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So that the things which your eyes have to see will send you out of your minds.
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The Lord will send a skin disease, attacking your knees and your legs, bursting out from your feet t...
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And you, and the king whom you have put over you, will the Lord take away to a nation strange to you...
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And you will become a wonder and a name of shame among all the nations where the Lord will take you.
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You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it.
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You will put in vines and take care of them, but you will get no wine or grapes from them; for they...
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Your land will be full of olive-trees, but there will be no oil for the comfort of your body; for yo...
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You will have sons and daughters, but they will not be yours; for they will go away prisoners into a...
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All your trees and the fruit of your land will be the locust's.
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The man from a strange land who is living among you will be lifted up higher and higher over you, wh...
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He will let you have his wealth at interest, and will have no need of yours: he will be the head and...
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And all these curses will come after you and overtake you, till your destruction is complete; becaus...
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These things will come on you and on your seed, to be a sign and a wonder for ever;
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Because you did not give honour to the Lord your God (Elohim), worshipping him gladly, with joy in y...
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For this cause you will become servants to those whom the Lord your God (Elohim) will send against y...
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The Lord will send a nation against you from the farthest ends of the earth, coming with the flight...
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A hard-faced nation, who will have no respect for the old or mercy for the young:
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He will take the fruit of your cattle and of your land till death puts an end to you: he will let yo...
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Your towns will be shut in by his armies, till your high walls, in which you put your faith, have co...
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And your food will be the fruit of your body, the flesh of the sons and daughters which the Lord you...
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That man among you who is soft and used to comfort will be hard and cruel to his brother, and to his...
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And will not give to any of them the flesh of his children which will be his food because he has no...
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The most soft and delicate of your women, who would not so much as put her foot on the earth, so del...
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And to her baby newly come to birth, and to the children of her body; for having no other food, she...
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If you will not take care to do all the words of this law, recorded in this book, honouring that nam...
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Then the Lord your God (Elohim) will make your punishment, and the punishment of your seed, a thing...
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He will send on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which were a cause of fear to you, and they wil...
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And all the diseases and the pains not recorded in the book of this law will the Lord send on you ti...
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And as the Lord took delight in doing you good and increasing you, so the Lord will take pleasure in...
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And the Lord will send you wandering among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other: ther...
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And even among these nations there will be no peace for you, and no rest for your feet: but the Lord...
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Your very life will be hanging in doubt before you, and day and night will be dark with fears, and n...
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Verse Information
- Book
- Deuteronomy
- Chapter
- Chapter 28 (68 verses)
- Version
- Bible in Basic English