Verse 66
Deuteronomy 28:66
Bible in Basic English
66
Your very life will be hanging in doubt before you, and day and night will be dark with fears, and nothing in life will be certain:
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/הָי֣וּ חַיֶּ֔י/ךָ תְּלֻאִ֥ים לְ/ךָ֖ מִ/נֶּ֑גֶד וּ/פָֽחַדְתָּ֙ לַ֣יְלָה וְ/יוֹמָ֔ם וְ/לֹ֥א תַאֲמִ֖ין בְּ/חַיֶּֽי/ךָ
English Translation
And your life shall be hanging in doubt before you, and you shall be in dread both night and day, and you shall not have assurance in your life.
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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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11
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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12
Opening his store-house in heaven, the Lord will send rain on your land at the right time, blessing...
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13
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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14
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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15
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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18
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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19
You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.
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20
The Lord will send on you cursing and trouble and punishment in everything to which you put your han...
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21
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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22
The Lord will send wasting disease, and burning pain, and flaming heat against you, keeping back the...
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23
And the heaven over your heads will be brass, and the earth under you hard as iron.
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24
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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25
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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26
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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27
The Lord will send on you the disease of Egypt, and other sorts of skin diseases which nothing will...
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28
He will make your minds diseased, and your eyes blind, and your hearts wasted with fear:
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29
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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30
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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31
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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32
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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38
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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43
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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45
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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47
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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49
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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54
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 you will become a very small band, though your numbers were like the stars of heaven; because yo...
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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)
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- Bible in Basic English