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Deuteronomy 28:59-61

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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  • WEB World English Bible

    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.

  • KJV King James Version

    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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  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    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.

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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.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv59–61 Deu 28:59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv59–61 And it shall come to pass, that as the…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On v59 Increase. Hebrew, distinguish, or render thy plagues wonderful. (Calmet)…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On v60 60. All the diseases of Egypt — Comp. Deu_7:15;…
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…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv60–61 (60) The diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On v60 Vers. 60, 61. The diseases of Egypt are the…
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v60 General Information:
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v60 28:60 The diseases of Egypt were not just general…
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