Curses by Defeat and Deportation“The LORD will allow you to be struck down before your enemies; you will attack them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions and will become an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
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6You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.
7The LORD will cause your enemies who attack you to be struck down before you; they will attack you from one direction but flee from you in seven different directions.
8The LORD will decree blessing for you with respect to your barns and in everything you do– yes, he will bless you in the land he is giving you.
16I for my part will do this to you: I will inflict horror on you, consumption and fever, which diminish eyesight and drain away the vitality of life. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.
17I will set my face against you. You will be struck down before your enemies, those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when there is no one pursuing you.
24The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust; it will come down on you from the sky until you are destroyed.
7You will pursue your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword.
8Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword.
36“‘As for the ones who remain among you, I will bring despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a blowing leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one who flees the sword and fall down even though there is no pursuer.
37They will stumble over each other as those who flee before a sword, though there is no pursuer, and there will be no one to take a stand for you before your enemies.
38You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will consume you.
19You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.
20Curses by Disease and Drought“The LORD will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you in everything you undertake until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me.
21The LORD will plague you with deadly diseases until he has completely removed you from the land you are about to possess.
22He will afflict you with weakness, fever, inflammation, infection, sword, blight, and mildew; these will attack you until you perish.
27Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples and there will be very few of you among the nations where the LORD will drive you.
33As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives.
34You will go insane from seeing all this.
35The LORD will afflict you in your knees and on your legs with painful, incurable boils– from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
36The LORD will force you and your king whom you will appoint over you to go away to a people whom you and your ancestors have not known, and you will serve other gods of wood and stone there.
37You will become an occasion of horror, a proverb, and an object of ridicule to all the peoples to whom the LORD will drive you.
38The Curse of Reversed Status“You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it.
27“I will send my terror before you, and I will alarm all the people whom you encounter; I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
63This is what will happen: Just as the LORD delighted to do good for you and make you numerous, he will take delight in destroying and decimating you. You will be uprooted from the land you are about to possess.
64The LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of wood and stone.
65Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the LORD will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair.
26Your carcasses will be food for every bird of the sky and wild animal of the earth, and there will be no one to chase them off.
48instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty you will serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you. They will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you.
49The LORD will raise up a distant nation against you, one from the other side of the earth as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand,
51They will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed. They will not leave you with any grain, new wine, olive oil, calves of your herds, or lambs of your flocks until they have destroyed you.
52They will besiege all of your villages until all of your high and fortified walls collapse– those in which you put your confidence throughout the land. They will besiege all your villages throughout the land the LORD your God has given you.
17One thousand will scurry at the battle cry of one enemy soldier; at the battle cry of five enemy soldiers you will all run away, until the remaining few are as isolated as a flagpole on a mountaintop or a signal flag on a hill.”
28The LORD will also subject you to madness, blindness, and confusion of mind.
14I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you know nothing about. For my anger is like a fire that will burn against you.”
25Nobody will be able to resist you; the LORD your God will spread the fear and terror of you over the whole land on which you walk, just as he promised you.
7Then the LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies, on those who hate you and persecute you.
31Your ox will be slaughtered before your very eyes but you will not eat of it. Your donkey will be stolen from you as you watch and will not be returned to you. Your flock of sheep will be given to your enemies and there will be no one to save you.
19and that you may drive out all your enemies just as the LORD said.
23The LORD your God will give them over to you; he will throw them into a great panic until they are destroyed.
15Curses as Reversal of Blessings“But if you ignore the LORD your God and are not careful to keep all his commandments and statutes I am giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you in full force:
16You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the field.
45All these curses will fall on you, pursuing and overtaking you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the LORD your God by keeping his commandments and statutes that he has given you.
33I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.
25Do not go out into the countryside. Do not travel on the roads. For the enemy is there with sword in hand. They are spreading terror everywhere.”
11The LORD will greatly multiply your children, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil in the land which he promised your ancestors he would give you.
15But in the same way every faithful promise the LORD your God made to you has been realized, it is just as certain, if you disobey, that the LORD will bring on you every judgment until he destroys you from this good land which the LORD your God gave you.
17Look, the LORD will throw you far away, you mere man! He will wrap you up tightly.
20Furthermore, the LORD your God will release hornets among them until the very last ones who hide from you perish.
15There the fire will consume you; the sword will cut you down; it will devour you like the young locust would.The Assyrian Defenders Will Flee Multiply yourself like the young locust; multiply yourself like the flying locust!
5But the horde of invaders will be like fine dust, the horde of tyrants like chaff that is blown away. It will happen suddenly, in a flash.