Deuteronomy 28:41

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

You will bear sons and daughters but not keep them, because they will be taken into captivity.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 28:32 : 32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you look on in vain all day, and you will be powerless to do anything about it.
  • Lam 1:5 : 5 ה(He) Her foes subjugated her; her enemies are at ease. For the LORD afflicted her because of her many acts of rebellion. Her children went away captive before the enemy.
  • 2 Kgs 24:14 : 14 He deported all the residents of Jerusalem, including all the officials and all the soldiers(10,000 people in all). This included all the craftsmen and those who worked with metal. No one was left except for the poorest among the people of the land.

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  • Deut 28:30-34
    5 verses
    83%

    30You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.

    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.

    32Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you look on in vain all day, and you will be powerless to do anything about it.

    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 28:37-40
    4 verses
    80%

    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.

    39You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink wine or gather in grapes, because worms will eat them.

    40You will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with olive oil, because the olives will drop off the trees while still unripe.

  • Deut 28:42
    79%

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

  • Deut 28:53
    77%

    53You will then eat your own offspring, the flesh of the sons and daughters the LORD your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege by which your enemies will constrict you.

  • Isa 39:7
    77%

    7‘Some of your very own descendants whom you father will be taken away and will be made eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”

  • 2 Kgs 20:18
    76%

    18‘Some of your very own descendants whom you father will be taken away and will be made eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”

  • Jer 16:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    2“Do not get married and do not have children here in this land.

    3For I, the LORD, tell you what will happen to the children who are born here in this land and to the men and women who are their mothers and fathers.

  • Deut 28:18
    76%

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

  • Lev 26:29
    74%

    29You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.

  • Mic 6:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    14You will eat, but not be satisfied. Even if you have the strength to overtake some prey, you will not be able to carry it away; if you do happen to carry away something, I will deliver it over to the sword.

    15You will plant crops, but will not harvest them; you will squeeze oil from the olives, but you will have no oil to rub on your bodies; you will squeeze juice from the grapes, but you will have no wine to drink.

  • Amos 7:17
    74%

    17“Therefore this is what the LORD says:‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the streets and your sons and daughters will die violently. Your land will be given to others and you will die in a foreign land. Israel will certainly be carried into exile away from its land.’”

  • Deut 28:51
    74%

    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.

  • Deut 28:55-57
    3 verses
    74%

    55He will withhold from all of them his children’s flesh that he is eating(since there is nothing else left), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.

    56Likewise, the most tender and delicate of your women, who would never think of putting even the sole of her foot on the ground because of her daintiness, will turn against her beloved husband, her sons and daughters,

    57and will secretly eat her afterbirth and her newborn children(since she has nothing else), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.

  • Jer 5:17
    74%

    17They will eat up your crops and your food. They will kill off your sons and your daughters. They will eat up your sheep and your cattle. They will destroy your vines and your fig trees. Their weapons will batter down the fortified cities you trust in.

  • Isa 49:17
    73%

    17Your children hurry back, while those who destroyed and devastated you depart.

  • 1 Sam 2:32
    73%

    32You will see trouble in my dwelling place! Israel will experience blessings, but there will not be an old man in your house for all time.

  • Deut 28:4
    73%

    4Your children will be blessed, as well as the produce of your soil, the offspring of your livestock, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.

  • Isa 49:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20Yet the children born during your time of bereavement will say within your hearing,‘This place is too cramped for us, make room for us so we can live here.’

    21Then you will think to yourself,‘Who bore these children for me? I was bereaved and barren, dismissed and divorced. Who raised these children? Look, I was left all alone; where did these children come from?’”

  • Ps 45:16
    72%

    16Your sons will carry on the dynasty of your ancestors; you will make them princes throughout the land.

  • Job 27:14
    72%

    14If his children increase– it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat.

  • Exod 23:26
    72%

    26No woman will miscarry her young or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.

  • 2 Chr 21:14
    72%

    14So look, the LORD is about to severely afflict your people, your sons, your wives, and all you own.

  • Jer 13:21
    72%

    21What will you say when the LORD appoints as rulers over you those allies that you, yourself, had actually prepared as such? Then anguish and agony will grip you like that of a woman giving birth to a baby.

  • Jer 29:6
    72%

    6Marry and have sons and daughters. Find wives for your sons and allow your daughters to get married so that they too can have sons and daughters. Grow in number; do not dwindle away.

  • Deut 28:25
    72%

    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.

  • Lev 26:38
    72%

    38You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will consume you.

  • Isa 54:3
    72%

    3For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your children will conquer nations and will resettle desolate cities.

  • Isa 14:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20You will not be buried with them, because you destroyed your land and killed your people. The offspring of the wicked will never be mentioned again.

    21Prepare to execute his sons for the sins their ancestors have committed. They must not rise up and take possession of the earth, or fill the surface of the world with cities.”

  • Lev 26:20
    71%

    20Your strength will be used up in vain, your land will not give its yield, and the trees of the land will not produce their fruit.

  • 1 Sam 8:13-14
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    71%

    13He will take your daughters to be ointment makers, cooks, and bakers.

    14He will take your best fields, vineyards, and olive groves, and give them to his own servants.

  • Isa 60:4
    71%

    4Look all around you! They all gather and come to you– your sons come from far away and your daughters are escorted by guardians.

  • Deut 28:63
    71%

    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.

  • Hos 9:12
    71%

    12Even if they raise their children, I will take away every last one of them. Woe to them! For I will turn away from them.

  • Mic 1:16
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    16Shave your heads bald as you mourn for the children you love; shave your foreheads as bald as an eagle, for they are taken from you into exile.

  • Deut 28:11
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    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.

  • Ezek 23:25
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    25I will direct my jealous anger against you, and they will deal with you in rage. They will cut off your nose and your ears, and your survivors will die by the sword. They will seize your sons and daughters, and your survivors will be consumed by fire.