Deuteronomy 28:35

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The 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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 28:27 : 27 The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, eczema, and scabies, all of which cannot be healed.
  • Job 2:6-7 : 6 So the LORD said to Satan,“All right, he is in your power; only preserve his life.” 7 Job’s Integrity in Suffering So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD, and he afflicted Job with a malignant ulcer from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.
  • Isa 1:6 : 6 From the soles of your feet to your head, there is no spot that is unharmed. There are only bruises, cuts, and open wounds. They have not been cleansed or bandaged, nor have they been treated with olive oil.
  • Isa 3:17 : 17 So the Lord will afflict the foreheads of Zion’s women with skin diseases; the LORD will make the front of their heads bald.”
  • Isa 3:24 : 24 A putrid stench will replace the smell of spices, a rope will replace a belt, baldness will replace braided locks of hair, a sackcloth garment will replace a fine robe, and a prisoner’s brand will replace beauty.

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  • Deut 28:27-29
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    87%

    27The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, eczema, and scabies, all of which cannot be healed.

    28The LORD will also subject you to madness, blindness, and confusion of mind.

    29You will feel your way along at noon like the blind person does in darkness and you will not succeed in anything you do; you will be constantly oppressed and continually robbed, with no one to save you.

  • Deut 28:33-34
    2 verses
    84%

    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.

  • Deut 28:15-25
    11 verses
    81%

    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.

    17Your basket and your mixing bowl will be cursed.

    18Your children will be cursed, as well as the produce of your soil, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.

    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.

    23The sky above your heads will be bronze and the earth beneath you iron.

    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.

    25Curses 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.

  • Deut 28:36-37
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    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.

  • Isa 1:5-7
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    5Why do you insist on being battered? Why do you continue to rebel? Your head has a massive wound, your whole heart is sick.

    6From the soles of your feet to your head, there is no spot that is unharmed. There are only bruises, cuts, and open wounds. They have not been cleansed or bandaged, nor have they been treated with olive oil.

    7Your land is devastated, your cities burned with fire. Right before your eyes your crops are being destroyed by foreign invaders. They leave behind devastation and destruction.

  • Deut 28:59-61
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    59then the LORD will increase your punishments and those of your descendants– great and long-lasting afflictions and severe, enduring illnesses.

    60He will infect you with all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will persistently afflict you.

    61Moreover, the LORD will bring upon you every kind of sickness and plague not mentioned in this scroll of commandments, until you have perished.

  • Deut 28:63-65
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    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.

  • 2 Chr 21:14-15
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    14So look, the LORD is about to severely afflict your people, your sons, your wives, and all you own.

    15And you will get a serious, chronic intestinal disease which will cause your intestines to come out.”

  • Job 2:7
    75%

    7Job’s Integrity in Suffering So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD, and he afflicted Job with a malignant ulcer from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.

  • Jer 30:12
    75%

    12The Lord Will Heal the Wounds of Judah Moreover, the LORD says to the people of Zion,“Your injuries are incurable; your wounds are severe.

  • Lev 26:16-17
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    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.

  • Deut 28:45
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    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.

  • Deut 7:15
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    15The LORD will protect you from all sickness, and you will not experience any of the terrible diseases that you knew in Egypt; instead he will inflict them on all those who hate you.

  • Deut 29:22
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    22The generation to come– your descendants who will rise up after you, as well as the foreigner who will come from distant places– will see the afflictions of that land and the illnesses that the LORD has brought on it.

  • Deut 28:51-52
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    73%

    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.

  • Deut 28:48
    73%

    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.

  • Mic 6:13
    73%

    13I will strike you brutally and destroy you because of your sin.

  • Isa 3:17
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    17So the Lord will afflict the foreheads of Zion’s women with skin diseases; the LORD will make the front of their heads bald.”

  • Exod 9:9
    72%

    9It will become fine dust over the whole land of Egypt and will cause boils to break out and fester on both people and animals in all the land of Egypt.”

  • Zech 14:12
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    12But this will be the nature of the plague with which the LORD will strike all the nations that have fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh will decay while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot away in their sockets, and their tongues will dissolve in their mouths.

  • Hag 2:17
    72%

    17I struck all the products of your labor with blight, disease, and hail, and yet you brought nothing to me,’ says the LORD.

  • Ezek 5:14
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    14“I will make you desolate and an object of scorn among the nations around you, in the sight of everyone who passes by.

  • Deut 28:42
    72%

    42Whirring locusts will take over every tree and all the produce of your soil.

  • Lev 13:12
    72%

    12If, however, the disease breaks out on the skin so that the disease covers all the skin of the person with the infection from his head to his feet, as far as the priest can see,