Deuteronomy 28:46
These curses will be a perpetual sign and wonder with reference to you and your descendants.
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- Isa 8:18 : 18 Look, I and the sons whom the LORD has given me are reminders and object lessons in Israel, sent from the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, who lives on Mount Zion.
- Ezek 14:8 : 8 I will set my face against that person and will make him an object lesson and a byword and will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
- Ezek 23:32-33 : 32 “This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“You will drink your sister’s deep and wide cup; you will be scorned and derided, for it holds a great deal. 33 You will be overcome by drunkenness and sorrow. The cup of your sister Samaria is a cup of horror and desolation.
- Ezek 36:20 : 20 But when they arrived in the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name. It was said of them,‘These are the people of the LORD, yet they have departed from his land.’
- 1 Cor 10:11 : 11 These things happened to them as examples and were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.
- Deut 28:37 : 37 You 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 28:59 : 59 then the LORD will increase your punishments and those of your descendants– great and long-lasting afflictions and severe, enduring illnesses.
- Deut 29:20 : 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.
- Deut 29:28 : 28 So the LORD has uprooted them from their land in anger, wrath, and great rage and has deported them to another land, as is clear today.”
- Jer 19:8 : 8 I will make this city an object of horror, a thing to be hissed at. All who pass by it will be filled with horror and will hiss out their scorn because of all the disasters that have happened to it.
- Jer 25:18 : 18 I made Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and its officials drink it. I did it so Judah would become a ruin. I did it so Judah, its kings, and its officials would become an object of horror and of hissing scorn, an example used in curses. Such is already becoming the case!
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45 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.
- Deut 28:59-602 verses75%
59 then the LORD will increase your punishments and those of your descendants– great and long-lasting afflictions and severe, enduring illnesses.
60 He will infect you with all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will persistently afflict you.
- Deut 28:15-206 verses74%
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:
16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the field.
17 Your basket and your mixing bowl will be cursed.
18 Your children will be cursed, as well as the produce of your soil, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.
19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.
20 Curses 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.
- Deut 6:8-92 verses74%
8 You should tie them as a reminder on your forearm and fasten them as symbols on your forehead.
9 Inscribe them on the doorframes of your houses and gates.
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18 Fix these words of mine into your mind and being, and tie them as a reminder on your hands and let them be symbols on your forehead.
- Deut 28:32-376 verses73%
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.
33 As 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.
34 You will go insane from seeing all this.
35 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.
36 The 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.
37 You will become an occasion of horror, a proverb, and an object of ridicule to all the peoples to whom the LORD will drive you.
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1 The 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.
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22 The 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.
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2 All these blessings will come to you in abundance if you obey the LORD your God:
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26 Anticipation of a Blessing and Cursing Ceremony Take note– I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:
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9 Their descendants will be known among the nations, their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will recognize that the LORD has blessed them.”
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7 Then the LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies, on those who hate you and persecute you.
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24 You must observe this event as an ordinance for you and for your children forever.
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14 Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, east, north, and south. And so all the families of the earth may receive blessings through you and through your descendants.
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47 The Curse of Military Siege“Because you have not served the LORD your God joyfully and wholeheartedly with the abundance of everything you have,
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29 When 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.
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3 I will bless those who bless you, but the one who treats you lightly I must curse, so that all the families of the earth may receive blessing through you.”
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8 The 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.
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41 You will bear sons and daughters but not keep them, because they will be taken into captivity.
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9 It will be a sign for you on your hand and a memorial on your forehead, so that the law of the LORD may be in your mouth, for with a mighty hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt.
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21 “As for me, this is my promise to them,” says the LORD.“My Spirit, who is upon you, and my words, which I have placed in your mouth, will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and descendants from this time forward,” says the LORD.
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4 May he give you and your descendants the blessing he gave to Abraham so that you may possess the land God gave to Abraham, the land where you have been living as a temporary resident.”
- Deut 28:63-653 verses70%
63 This 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.
64 The 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.
65 Among 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.
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27 So they will put my name on the Israelites, and I will bless them.”
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3 For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your children will conquer nations and will resettle desolate cities.
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4 Your 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.
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4 I will multiply your descendants so they will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands. All the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.
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9 Then God said to Abraham,“As for you, you must keep the covenantal requirement I am imposing on you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.
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17 You 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.
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25 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.
- Deut 28:10-112 verses69%
10 Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you belong to the LORD, and they will respect you.
11 The 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.
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18 Because you have obeyed me, all the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.’”
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7 I will confirm my covenant as a perpetual covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
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14 You will be blessed beyond all peoples; there will be no barrenness among you or your livestock.
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28 The LORD will also subject you to madness, blindness, and confusion of mind.