Deuteronomy 28:45

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All 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.

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  • Deut 28:15 : 15 Curses 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:
  • Deut 29:20-21 : 20 The LORD will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger will rage against that man; all the curses written in this scroll will fall upon him and the LORD will obliterate his name from memory. 21 The LORD will single him out for judgment from all the tribes of Israel according to all the curses of the covenant written in this scroll of the law.
  • 2 Kgs 17:20 : 20 So the LORD rejected all of Israel’s descendants; he humiliated them and handed them over to robbers, until he had thrown them from his presence.
  • Ps 119:21 : 21 You reprimand arrogant people. Those who stray from your commands are doomed.
  • Prov 13:21 : 21 Calamity pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous.
  • Isa 1:20 : 20 But if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” Know for certain that the LORD has spoken.
  • Isa 65:14-15 : 14 Look, my servants will shout for joy as happiness fills their hearts! But you will cry out as sorrow fills your hearts; you will wail because your spirits will be crushed. 15 Your names will live on in the curse formulas of my chosen ones. The Sovereign LORD will kill you, but he will give his servants another name.
  • Jer 7:22-25 : 22 Consider this: When I spoke to your ancestors after I brought them out of Egypt, I did not merely give them commands about burnt offerings and sacrifices. 23 I also explicitly commanded them:“Obey me. If you do, I will be your God and you will be my people. Live exactly the way I tell you and things will go well with you.” 24 But they did not listen to me or pay any attention to me. They followed the stubborn inclinations of their own wicked hearts. They acted worse and worse instead of better. 25 From the time your ancestors departed the land of Egypt until now, I sent my servants the prophets to you again and again, day after day.
  • Jer 24:9-9 : 9 I will bring such disaster on them that all the kingdoms of the earth will be horrified. I will make them an object of reproach, a proverbial example of disaster. I will make them an object of ridicule, an example to be used in curses. That is how they will be remembered wherever I banish them. 10 I will bring war, starvation, and disease on them until they are completely destroyed from the land I gave them and their ancestors.’”
  • Lam 2:15-17 : 15 ס(Samek) All who passed by on the road clapped their hands to mock you. They sneered and shook their heads at Daughter Jerusalem.“Ha! Is this the city they called‘The perfection of beauty, the source of joy of the whole earth!’?” 16 פ(Pe) All your enemies gloated over you. They sneered and gnashed their teeth; they said,“We have destroyed her! Ha! We have waited a long time for this day. We have lived to see it!” 17 ע(Ayin) The LORD has done what he planned; he has fulfilled his promise that he threatened long ago: He has overthrown you without mercy and has enabled the enemy to gloat over you; he has exalted your adversaries’ power.
  • Ezek 7:15 : 15 The sword is outside; pestilence and famine are inside the house. Whoever is in the open field will die by the sword, and famine and pestilence will consume everyone in the city.
  • Ezek 14:21 : 21 “For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: How much worse will it be when I send my four terrible judgments– sword, famine, wild animals, and plague– to Jerusalem to kill both people and animals!
  • Lev 26:28 : 28 I will walk in hostile rage against you and I myself will also discipline you seven times on account of your sins.
  • Deut 11:27-28 : 27 the blessing if you take to heart the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you today, 28 and the curse if you pay no attention to his commandments and turn from the way I am setting before you today to pursue other gods you have not known.
  • Deut 28:5 : 5 Your basket and your mixing bowl will be blessed.

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  • Deut 28:13-22
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    13The LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you will always end up at the top and not at the bottom, if you obey his commandments which I am urging you today to be careful to do.

    14But you must not turn away from all the commandments I am giving you today, to either the right or left, nor pursue other gods and worship them.

    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.

  • Deut 28:1-2
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    1The Covenant Blessings“If you indeed obey the LORD your God and are careful to observe all his commandments I am giving you today, the LORD your God will elevate you above all the nations of the earth.

    2All these blessings will come to you in abundance if you obey the LORD your God:

  • Deut 11:26-29
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    26Anticipation of a Blessing and Cursing Ceremony Take note– I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:

    27the blessing if you take to heart the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you today,

    28and the curse if you pay no attention to his commandments and turn from the way I am setting before you today to pursue other gods you have not known.

    29When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are to possess, you must pronounce the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

  • Deut 30:1
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    1The Results of Covenant Reaffirmation“When you have experienced all these things, both the blessings and the curses I have set before you, you will reflect upon them in all the nations where the LORD your God has banished you.

  • Deut 28:44
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    44They will lend to you but you will not lend to them; they will become the head and you will become the tail!

  • Deut 28:46-47
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    46These curses will be a perpetual sign and wonder with reference to you and your descendants.

    47The Curse of Military Siege“Because you have not served the LORD your God joyfully and wholeheartedly with the abundance of everything you have,

  • Deut 30:7-8
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    7Then the LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies, on those who hate you and persecute you.

    8You will return and obey the LORD, keeping all his commandments I am giving you today.

  • Deut 28:60-64
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    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.

    62There will be very few of you left, though at one time you were as numerous as the stars in the sky, because you will have disobeyed the LORD your God.

    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.

  • Josh 23:15
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    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.

  • Deut 8:20
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    20Just like the nations the LORD is about to destroy from your sight, so he will do to you because you would not obey him.

  • Deut 28:24-25
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    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 15:5-6
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    5if you carefully obey him by keeping all these commandments that I am giving you today.

    6For the LORD your God will bless you just as he has promised; you will lend to many nations but will not borrow from any, and you will rule over many nations but they will not rule over you.

  • Deut 28:37
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    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.

  • Deut 28:35
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    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.

  • Deut 28:51-52
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    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 28:58
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    58The Curse of Covenant Termination“If you refuse to obey all the words of this law, the things written in this scroll, and refuse to fear this glorious and awesome name, the LORD your God,

  • Deut 28:8
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    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.

  • Jer 11:3
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    3Tell them that the LORD, the God of Israel, says,‘Anyone who does not keep the terms of the covenant will be under a curse.

  • Deut 13:17
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    17You must not take for yourself anything that has been placed under judgment. Then the LORD will relent from his intense anger, show you compassion, have mercy on you, and multiply you as he promised your ancestors.

  • Deut 11:17
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    17Then the anger of the LORD will erupt against you and he will close up the sky so that it does not rain. The land will not yield its produce, and you will soon be removed from the good land that the LORD is about to give you.

  • Deut 28:28-29
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    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 27:10
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    10You must obey him and keep his commandments and statutes that I am giving you today.”

  • Deut 29:27
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    27That is why the LORD’s anger erupted against this land, bringing on it all the curses written in this scroll.

  • Mal 2:2
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    2If you do not listen and take seriously the need to honor my name,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“I will send judgment on you and turn your blessings into curses– indeed, I have already done so because you are not taking it to heart.

  • Lev 26:14
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    14The Consequences of Disobedience“‘If, however, you do not obey me and keep all these commandments–

  • Deut 28:33
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    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.

  • Deut 30:10
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    10if you obey the LORD your God and keep his commandments and statutes that are written in this scroll of the law. But you must turn to him with your whole mind and being.