then Yahweh will make your plagues and the plagues of your offspring fearful, even great plagues, and of long duration, and severe sicknesses, and of long duration. He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they will cling to you. Also every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, Yahweh will bring them on you until you are destroyed.
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All these curses will come on you, and will pursue you and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you didn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you. They will be for a sign and for a wonder to you and to your offspring forever. Because you didn’t serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things; therefore you will serve your enemies whom Yahweh sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you. Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies: a nation whose language you will not understand, a nation of fierce facial expressions, that doesn’t respect the elderly, nor show favor to the young. They will eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed. They also won’t leave you grain, new wine, oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish. They will besiege you in all your gates until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout all your land. They will besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land which Yahweh your God has given you. You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you. The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining, so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left to him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in all your gates. The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil toward the husband that she loves, toward her son, toward her daughter, toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of all things in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in your gates. If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, YAHWEH your God, then Yahweh will make your plagues and the plagues of your offspring fearful, even great plagues, and of long duration, and severe sicknesses, and of long duration. He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they will cling to you. Also every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, Yahweh will bring them on you until you are destroyed. You will be left few in number, even though you were as the stars of the sky for multitude, because you didn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice. It will happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You will be plucked from the land that you are going in to possess. Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth. There you will serve other gods which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone. Among these nations you will find no ease, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and pining of soul. Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be afraid night and day, and will have no assurance of your life. In the morning you will say, “I wish it were evening!” and at evening you will say, “I wish it were morning!” for the fear of your heart which you will fear, and for the sights which your eyes will see. Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I told to you that you would never see it again. There you will offer yourselves to your enemies for male and female slaves, and nobody will buy you.
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then Yahweh will make your plagues and the plagues of your offspring fearful, even great plagues, and of long duration, and severe sicknesses, and of long duration.
He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they will cling to you.
Also every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, Yahweh will bring them on you until you are destroyed.
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Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.
Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
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then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
And He will bring back upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast in dread of; and they shall cleave unto thee.
Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
Cross-references (17)
- Deuteronomy 4:25-26 (v61) When you shall father children and children’s children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a…
- Deuteronomy 7:15 (v60) Yahweh will take away from you all sickness; and he will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, on you, but will lay them…
- Mark 13:19 (v59) For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until…
- Exodus 15:26 (v60) He said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to…
- Deuteronomy 28:46 (v59) They will be for a sign and for a wonder to you and to your offspring forever.
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- Deuteronomy 29:20-28 (v59) Yahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this…
- Deuteronomy 31:17-18 (v59) Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be…
- Deuteronomy 32:22 (v59) For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the…
- Deuteronomy 32:26 (v59) I said that I would scatter them afar. I would make their memory to cease from among men;
- 1 Kings 9:7-9 (v59) then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and I will cast this house, which I have made holy for my name, out of…
- 1 Kings 16:3-4 (v59) behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house; and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat. The dogs…
- Lamentations 1:9 (v59) Her filthiness was in her skirts. She didn’t remember her latter end. Therefore she has come down astoundingly. She has no comforter. “See,…
- Lamentations 1:12 (v59) “Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, with which Yahweh…
- Lamentations 4:12 (v59) The kings of the earth didn’t believe, neither did all the inhabitants of the world, that the adversary and the enemy would enter into the…
- Daniel 9:12 (v59) He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for under the…
- Hosea 3:4 (v59) For the children of Israel shall live many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and…
- Deuteronomy 28:27 (v60) Yahweh will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with the tumors, with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On v61 Declaring, that God hath infinite means to plague the…
Declaring, that God hath infinite means to plague the wicked, besides them that are ordinary or written.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv59–61 Deu 28:59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues…
Deu 28:59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, [even] great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
Ver. 59. And of long continuance.] So that thy living shall be no better than to lie a-dying.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv59–61 And it shall come to pass, that as the…
And it shall come to pass, that as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good,.... The Word of the Lord, as the Targum of Jonathan; who with great delight and pleasure in them brought them out of Egypt, conducted them through the wilderness, protecting them and providing all good things for them; and brought them into the land of Canaan, a land flowing with milk and honey, and settled them there; and gave them judges and kings, priests and prophets, for a long series of time, with other innumerable blessings he bestowed upon them:
and to multiply you; so that they became as the stars of heaven, and the sand of the sea, as before observed:
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so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy you and to bring you to nought; take as much pleasure in their ruin and destruction, whereby his justice would be glorified, and the honour of his laws preserved, as before in bestowing good things on them, in which mercy and kindness were displayed:
and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it; in a violent manner, by their enemies, and against their wills, they being loath to leave it. The Emperor Adrian, to prevent their insurrections and rebellions, which had given him a great deal of trouble, ordered by an edict that no Jew should come into Jerusalem, nor into the land of Judea, or be seen in it, which is observed by several writers (m); by which means the country was cleared of them. In later times some of them did get thither again, but they were but few. Benjamin of Tudela, a Jew of the twelfth century, travelled into several parts of the world in quest of his countrymen, and particularly into Judea, and his view was to magnify his people; and yet owns he found at Jerusalem only two hundred persons, whose employment was dyeing wool, and dwelt in a corner of the town under the tower of David; and but twelve at Bethlehem, three at Maresha, at Shunem indeed three hundred, none at Gilead, two at Nob, who were dyers, three at Ramah, one at Joppa, none at Jafne, where had been a famous academy, none at Ashdod, and at Tiberias about fifty (n). And our countryman Sandys (o), who travelled into Judea in the seventeenth century, says,"here be some Jews, yet inherit they no part of the land, but in their own country do live as aliens.''
(m) Justin Martyr, Tertullian, Eusebius. See Dr. Newton ut supra. (Prophesies, vol. 1. Dissert. 7. sect. 6. p. 186.) (n) Itinerar. p. 41-53. (o) Travels, sect. 3. p. 114. Ed. 5.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On v59 Increase. Hebrew, distinguish, or render thy plagues wonderful. (Calmet)…
Increase. Hebrew, distinguish, or render thy plagues wonderful. (Calmet) --- Perpetual. Hebrew, "lasting." (Haydock) See ver. 27.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On v60 60. All the diseases of Egypt — Comp. Deu_7:15;…
60. All the diseases of Egypt — Comp. Deu_7:15; also Exo_9:1-10; Exo_12:29; and Exo_7:10.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv59–61 59. plagues] As in Deu_28:61, Deu_29:22 (21), Lev_26:21. In…
59. plagues] As in Deu_28:61, Deu_29:22 (21), Lev_26:21. In Deu_25:3 the word is used of stripes. In Deu_26:8 another word is used for plague.
wonderful] Extraordinary or exceptional.
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of long continuance] Lit. faithful, sure, assured, usually in a moral sense; but in 1Sa_25:28 of an assured house or dynasty; and in Isa_33:6, Jer_15:18 (of unfailing waters). Cp. below Deu_28:66.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv60–61 (60) The diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid…
(60) The diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of.—Contrast Exo_15:26. “If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of Jehovah . . . I will put none of these diseases of Egypt which thou knowest, upon thee; for I am Jehovah, that healeth thee” But, on the other hand, it is said (Eze_7:9), “Ye shall know that I am Jehovah that smiteth.” eJehovah-Rophêka and Jehovah-Makkeh are one Jehovah.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On v60 Vers. 60, 61. The diseases of Egypt are the…
Vers. 60, 61. The diseases of Egypt are the plagues sent on Pharaoh and his people, as recorded in Exodus 7-11. Besides these, other plagues, not recorded in the Book of the Law, should come on rebellious Israel, so that they should be almost utterly destroyed.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v60 General Information:
General Information:
Moses speaks to the Israelites as if they were one man, so the words "you" and "your" here are singular. (See: Forms of You)
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He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt
This is an idiom. AT: "He will make sure that you again suffer from the diseases of Egypt" (See: Idiom)
they will cling to you
This is an idiom. AT: "the diseases will not stop, and no one will be able to heal you of them" (See: Idiom)
every sickness and plague that is not written
Here "every" is a generalization that means "many." This can be stated in active form. AT: "even other sicknesses and plagues that I have not written" (See: Hyperbole and Generalization and Active or Passive)
until you are destroyed
This can be stated in active form. AT: "until he has destroyed you" (See: Active or Passive)
You will be left ... you were like ... you did not listen
Moses is speaking to the Israelites as a group, so all instances of "you" are plural. (See: Forms of You)
you were like the stars of the heavens in number
This means that in the past there were many Israelites. (See: Simile)
to the voice of Yahweh
Here the metonym "voice of Yahweh" refers to what Yahweh says. AT: "to what Yahweh says" (See: Metonymy)
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law
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God
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v60 28:60 The diseases of Egypt were not just general…
28:60 The diseases of Egypt were not just general plagues but those associated with physical illness (see Exod 9:8-12).
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