Post by Cindy on Sept 13, 2023 10:36:24 GMT -5
Do you all remember the curses God told Israel would happen if they didn't obey Him? Well those curses are part of what He tells them are going to happen to them in Isaiah, Jeremiah and elsewhere. Yes, God was speaking to Israel when He said this, and these are all about Israel, but then so is the Tribulation. The Tribulation is how God is going to purify one third of the Jewish people so they can enter Heaven and so they can serve Him as His priests during the Millennial Kingdom. This will finally be fulfilled by the Jews during the Millennial Kingdom after and because God has purified them so they can serve Him: “For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.” (Deuteronomy 7:6) That's why Jesus and the prophets constantly say the the Tribulation judgments are "birth pains" rather than punishments. They're birth pains because Israel is going to be born again as a holy nation. Since the Tribulation is mainly about the Jew's, these curses will be seen then, and we may see mini previews of them before hand. Keep in mind too, that these have happened to the Jews, a number of times already because of their disobedience.
Let's see how many of these are happening now.
Deuteronomy 28:15–68. Curses for Disobedience
15 HOWEVER, IF YOU DO NOT OBEY THE LORD YOUR GOD AND DO NOT CAREFULLY FOLLOW ALL HIS COMMANDS AND DECREES I AM GIVING YOU TODAY, ALL THESE CURSES WILL COME UPON YOU AND OVERTAKE YOU:
16 YOU WILL BE CURSED IN THE CITY AND CURSED IN THE COUNTRY. This just shows that the curses will affect everyone, regardless of where they live.
17 YOUR BASKET AND YOUR KNEADING TROUGH WILL BE CURSED. That's talking about food. It would include not being able to grow enough food, not being able to get the food to the people who need it, and not being able to buy enough food to eat. So for whatever reason, people wouldn't have enough to eat.
18 THE FRUIT OF YOUR WOMB WILL BE CURSED, AND THE CROPS OF YOUR LAND, AND THE CALVES OF YOUR HERDS AND THE LAMBS OF YOUR FLOCKS. This one shows everything from people of all ages, to food, and animals being cursed. Again showing not enough food for the people regardless of their age. The first verse spoke mostly of plants while this one speaks mostly of animals. So people will be short of all kinds of food.
19 YOU WILL BE CURSED WHEN YOU COME IN AND CURSED WHEN YOU GO OUT. This simply shows being cursed at home (when you come in) and at work or play (when you go out).
20 THE LORD WILL SEND ON YOU CURSES, CONFUSION AND REBUKE IN EVERYTHING YOU PUT YOUR HAND TO, UNTIL YOU ARE DESTROYED AND COME TO SUDDEN RUIN BECAUSE OF THE EVIL YOU HAVE DONE IN FORSAKING HIM. This seems self explanatory to me. And we're certainly seeing confusion today about all kinds of things!
21 THE LORD WILL PLAGUE YOU WITH DISEASES UNTIL HE HAS DESTROYED YOU FROM THE LAND YOU ARE ENTERING TO POSSESS. Well, we're seeing all kinds of new diseases, all kinds of old ones are coming back as well. We're also seeing diseases that used to only be found in third world countries, but are now found everywhere. Plus, we're seeing epidemics and pandemics.
22 THE LORD WILL STRIKE YOU WITH WASTING DISEASE, WITH FEVER AND INFLAMMATION, WITH SCORCHING HEAT AND DROUGHT, WITH BLIGHT AND MILDEW, WHICH WILL PLAGUE YOU UNTIL YOU PERISH. It looks like every conceivable disease and blight will be applied to crops and the population.
23 THE SKY OVER YOUR HEAD WILL BE BRONZE, THE GROUND BENEATH YOU IRON. The sky like bronze just means that it will be really hot, more so than ever before. The ground like iron means that it will be just about impossible to grow anything in the ground because it will be so hard and dry; there will be nothing but dust everywhere.
24 THE LORD WILL TURN THE RAIN OF YOUR COUNTRY INTO DUST AND POWDER; IT WILL COME DOWN FROM THE SKIES UNTIL YOU ARE DESTROYED. This is just part of the one before it.
25 THE LORD WILL CAUSE YOU TO BE DEFEATED BEFORE YOUR ENEMIES. YOU WILL COME AT THEM FROM ONE DIRECTION BUT FLEE FROM THEM IN SEVEN, AND YOU WILL BECOME A THING OF HORROR TO ALL THE KINGDOMS ON EARTH. Yikes! This has never happened to our country before, and I don't look forward to when it does happen. I'm hoping this one won't happen until after the rapture!
26 YOUR CARCASSES WILL BE FOOD FOR ALL THE BIRDS OF THE AIR AND THE BEASTS OF THE EARTH, AND THERE WILL BE NO ONE TO FRIGHTEN THEM AWAY. The defeat will be so great that there won't be enough people left to bury the dead.
27 THE LORD WILL AFFLICT YOU WITH THE BOILS OF EGYPT AND WITH TUMORS, FESTERING SORES AND THE ITCH, FROM WHICH YOU CANNOT BE CURED. As the LORD had once struck Egypt with boils (Ex. 9:8–12) and sent confusion to Pharaoh’s army (Ex. 14:23–28) so He would afflict Israel with these things (“diseases” in Ex. 15:26; Deut. 7:15; Deut. 7:28:60; also note 28:35).
28 THE LORD WILL AFFLICT YOU WITH MADNESS, BLINDNESS AND CONFUSION OF MIND.
29 AT MIDDAY YOU WILL GROPE ABOUT LIKE A BLIND MAN IN THE DARK. YOU WILL BE UNSUCCESSFUL IN EVERYTHING YOU DO; DAY AFTER DAY YOU WILL BE OPPRESSED AND ROBBED, WITH NO ONE TO RESCUE YOU. The physical and mental afflictions would be so great that the Israelites would not have the strength or presence of mind to complete any task (they would be unsuccessful in everything), nor could they defend themselves from oppressors.
30 YOU WILL BE PLEDGED TO BE MARRIED TO A WOMAN, BUT ANOTHER WILL TAKE HER AND RAVISH HER. YOU WILL BUILD A HOUSE, BUT YOU WILL NOT LIVE IN IT. YOU WILL PLANT A VINEYARD, BUT YOU WILL NOT EVEN BEGIN TO ENJOY ITS FRUIT.
31 YOUR OX WILL BE SLAUGHTERED BEFORE YOUR EYES, BUT YOU WILL EAT NONE OF IT. YOUR DONKEY WILL BE FORCIBLY TAKEN FROM YOU AND WILL NOT BE RETURNED. YOUR SHEEP WILL BE GIVEN TO YOUR ENEMIES, AND NO ONE WILL RESCUE THEM. Everyone will turn against their own family and friends as well as those they don't know.
I don't have time to explain or comment on the rest right now. Maybe I'll be able to another day. But most are self explanatory, and I'm sure we can all see many of them starting to happen today, or conditions changing so that it could happen. So here are the rest of them:
32 YOUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS WILL BE GIVEN TO ANOTHER NATION, AND YOU WILL WEAR OUT YOUR EYES WATCHING FOR THEM DAY AFTER DAY, POWERLESS TO LIFT A HAND.
33 A PEOPLE THAT YOU DO NOT KNOW WILL EAT WHAT YOUR LAND AND LABOR PRODUCE, AND YOU WILL HAVE NOTHING BUT CRUEL OPPRESSION ALL YOUR DAYS.
34 THE SIGHTS YOU SEE WILL DRIVE YOU MAD.
35 THE LORD WILL AFFLICT YOUR KNEES AND LEGS WITH PAINFUL BOILS THAT CANNOT BE CURED, SPREADING FROM THE SOLES OF YOUR FEET TO THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD.
36 THE LORD WILL DRIVE YOU AND THE KING YOU SET OVER YOU TO A NATION UNKNOWN TO YOU OR YOUR FATHERS. THERE YOU WILL WORSHIP OTHER GODS, GODS OF WOOD AND STONE.
37 YOU WILL BECOME A THING OF HORROR AND AN OBJECT OF SCORN AND RIDICULE TO ALL THE NATIONS WHERE THE LORD WILL DRIVE YOU.
38 YOU WILL SOW MUCH SEED IN THE FIELD BUT YOU WILL HARVEST LITTLE, BECAUSE LOCUSTS WILL DEVOUR IT.
39 YOU WILL PLANT VINEYARDS AND CULTIVATE THEM BUT YOU WILL NOT DRINK THE WINE OR GATHER THE GRAPES, BECAUSE WORMS WILL EAT THEM.
40 YOU WILL HAVE OLIVE TREES THROUGHOUT YOUR COUNTRY BUT YOU WILL NOT USE THE OIL, BECAUSE THE OLIVES WILL DROP OFF. 41 YOU WILL HAVE SONS AND DAUGHTERS BUT YOU WILL NOT KEEP THEM, BECAUSE THEY WILL GO INTO CAPTIVITY.
42 SWARMS OF LOCUSTS WILL TAKE OVER ALL YOUR TREES AND THE CROPS OF YOUR LAND.
43 THE ALIEN WHO LIVES AMONG YOU WILL RISE ABOVE YOU HIGHER AND HIGHER, BUT YOU WILL SINK LOWER AND LOWER.
44 HE WILL LEND TO YOU, BUT YOU WILL NOT LEND TO HIM. HE WILL BE THE HEAD, BUT YOU WILL BE THE TAIL.
45 ALL THESE CURSES WILL COME UPON YOU. THEY WILL PURSUE YOU AND OVERTAKE YOU UNTIL YOU ARE DESTROYED, BECAUSE YOU DID NOT OBEY THE LORD YOUR GOD AND OBSERVE THE COMMANDS AND DECREES HE GAVE YOU.
46 THEY WILL BE A SIGN AND A WONDER TO YOU AND YOUR DESCENDANTS FOREVER.
47 BECAUSE YOU DID NOT SERVE THE LORD YOUR GOD JOYFULLY AND GLADLY IN THE TIME OF PROSPERITY,
48 THEREFORE IN HUNGER AND THIRST, IN NAKEDNESS AND DIRE POVERTY, YOU WILL SERVE THE ENEMIES THE LORD SENDS AGAINST YOU. HE WILL PUT AN IRON YOKE ON YOUR NECK UNTIL HE HAS DESTROYED YOU.
49 THE LORD WILL BRING A NATION AGAINST YOU FROM FAR AWAY, FROM THE ENDS OF THE EARTH, LIKE AN EAGLE SWOOPING DOWN, A NATION WHOSE LANGUAGE YOU WILL NOT UNDERSTAND,
50 A FIERCE-LOOKING NATION WITHOUT RESPECT FOR THE OLD OR PITY FOR THE YOUNG.
51 THEY WILL DEVOUR THE YOUNG OF YOUR LIVESTOCK AND THE CROPS OF YOUR LAND UNTIL YOU ARE DESTROYED. THEY WILL LEAVE YOU NO GRAIN, NEW WINE OR OIL, NOR ANY CALVES OF YOUR HERDS OR LAMBS OF YOUR FLOCKS UNTIL YOU ARE RUINED.
52 THEY WILL LAY SIEGE TO ALL THE CITIES THROUGHOUT YOUR LAND UNTIL THE HIGH FORTIFIED WALLS IN WHICH YOU TRUST FALL DOWN. THEY WILL BESIEGE ALL THE CITIES THROUGHOUT THE LAND THE LORD YOUR GOD IS GIVING YOU.
53 BECAUSE OF THE SUFFERING THAT YOUR ENEMY WILL INFLICT ON YOU DURING THE SIEGE, YOU WILL EAT THE FRUIT OF THE WOMB, THE FLESH OF THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS THE LORD YOUR GOD HAS GIVEN YOU.
54 EVEN THE MOST GENTLE AND SENSITIVE MAN AMONG YOU WILL HAVE NO COMPASSION ON HIS OWN BROTHER OR THE WIFE HE LOVES OR HIS SURVIVING CHILDREN,
55 AND HE WILL NOT GIVE TO ONE OF THEM ANY OF THE FLESH OF HIS CHILDREN THAT HE IS EATING. IT WILL BE ALL HE HAS LEFT BECAUSE OF THE SUFFERING YOUR ENEMY WILL INFLICT ON YOU DURING THE SIEGE OF ALL YOUR CITIES.
56 THE MOST GENTLE AND SENSITIVE WOMAN AMONG YOU—SO SENSITIVE AND GENTLE THAT SHE WOULD NOT VENTURE TO TOUCH THE GROUND WITH THE SOLE OF HER FOOT—WILL BEGRUDGE THE HUSBAND SHE LOVES AND HER OWN SON OR DAUGHTER
57 THE AFTERBIRTH FROM HER WOMB AND THE CHILDREN SHE BEARS. FOR SHE INTENDS TO EAT THEM SECRETLY DURING THE SIEGE AND IN THE DISTRESS THAT YOUR ENEMY WILL INFLICT ON YOU IN YOUR CITIES.
58 IF YOU DO NOT CAREFULLY FOLLOW ALL THE WORDS OF THIS LAW, WHICH ARE WRITTEN IN THIS BOOK, AND DO NOT REVERE THIS GLORIOUS AND AWESOME NAME—THE LORD YOUR GOD—
59 THE LORD WILL SEND FEARFUL PLAGUES ON YOU AND YOUR DESCENDANTS, HARSH AND PROLONGED DISASTERS, AND SEVERE AND LINGERING ILLNESSES.
60 HE WILL BRING UPON YOU ALL THE DISEASES OF EGYPT THAT YOU DREADED, AND THEY WILL CLING TO YOU.
61 THE LORD WILL ALSO BRING ON YOU EVERY KIND OF SICKNESS AND DISASTER NOT RECORDED IN THIS BOOK OF THE LAW, UNTIL YOU ARE DESTROYED.
62 YOU WHO WERE AS NUMEROUS AS THE STARS IN THE SKY WILL BE LEFT BUT FEW IN NUMBER, BECAUSE YOU DID NOT OBEY THE LORD YOUR GOD.
63 JUST AS IT PLEASED THE LORD TO MAKE YOU PROSPER AND INCREASE IN NUMBER, SO IT WILL PLEASE HIM TO RUIN AND DESTROY YOU. YOU WILL BE UPROOTED FROM THE LAND YOU ARE ENTERING TO POSSESS.
64 THEN THE LORD WILL SCATTER YOU AMONG ALL NATIONS, FROM ONE END OF THE EARTH TO THE OTHER. THERE YOU WILL WORSHIP OTHER GODS—GODS OF WOOD AND STONE, WHICH NEITHER YOU NOR YOUR FATHERS HAVE KNOWN.
65 AMONG THOSE NATIONS YOU WILL FIND NO REPOSE, NO RESTING PLACE FOR THE SOLE OF YOUR FOOT. THERE THE LORD WILL GIVE YOU AN ANXIOUS MIND, EYES WEARY WITH LONGING, AND A DESPAIRING HEART.
66 YOU WILL LIVE IN CONSTANT SUSPENSE, FILLED WITH DREAD BOTH NIGHT AND DAY, NEVER SURE OF YOUR LIFE.
67 IN THE MORNING YOU WILL SAY, “If only it were evening!” AND IN THE EVENING, “If only it were morning!”—BECAUSE OF THE TERROR THAT WILL FILL YOUR HEARTS AND THE SIGHTS THAT YOUR EYES WILL SEE.
68 The LORD will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again. There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.
What do you think?
Let's see how many of these are happening now.
Deuteronomy 28:15–68. Curses for Disobedience
15 HOWEVER, IF YOU DO NOT OBEY THE LORD YOUR GOD AND DO NOT CAREFULLY FOLLOW ALL HIS COMMANDS AND DECREES I AM GIVING YOU TODAY, ALL THESE CURSES WILL COME UPON YOU AND OVERTAKE YOU:
16 YOU WILL BE CURSED IN THE CITY AND CURSED IN THE COUNTRY. This just shows that the curses will affect everyone, regardless of where they live.
17 YOUR BASKET AND YOUR KNEADING TROUGH WILL BE CURSED. That's talking about food. It would include not being able to grow enough food, not being able to get the food to the people who need it, and not being able to buy enough food to eat. So for whatever reason, people wouldn't have enough to eat.
18 THE FRUIT OF YOUR WOMB WILL BE CURSED, AND THE CROPS OF YOUR LAND, AND THE CALVES OF YOUR HERDS AND THE LAMBS OF YOUR FLOCKS. This one shows everything from people of all ages, to food, and animals being cursed. Again showing not enough food for the people regardless of their age. The first verse spoke mostly of plants while this one speaks mostly of animals. So people will be short of all kinds of food.
19 YOU WILL BE CURSED WHEN YOU COME IN AND CURSED WHEN YOU GO OUT. This simply shows being cursed at home (when you come in) and at work or play (when you go out).
20 THE LORD WILL SEND ON YOU CURSES, CONFUSION AND REBUKE IN EVERYTHING YOU PUT YOUR HAND TO, UNTIL YOU ARE DESTROYED AND COME TO SUDDEN RUIN BECAUSE OF THE EVIL YOU HAVE DONE IN FORSAKING HIM. This seems self explanatory to me. And we're certainly seeing confusion today about all kinds of things!
21 THE LORD WILL PLAGUE YOU WITH DISEASES UNTIL HE HAS DESTROYED YOU FROM THE LAND YOU ARE ENTERING TO POSSESS. Well, we're seeing all kinds of new diseases, all kinds of old ones are coming back as well. We're also seeing diseases that used to only be found in third world countries, but are now found everywhere. Plus, we're seeing epidemics and pandemics.
22 THE LORD WILL STRIKE YOU WITH WASTING DISEASE, WITH FEVER AND INFLAMMATION, WITH SCORCHING HEAT AND DROUGHT, WITH BLIGHT AND MILDEW, WHICH WILL PLAGUE YOU UNTIL YOU PERISH. It looks like every conceivable disease and blight will be applied to crops and the population.
23 THE SKY OVER YOUR HEAD WILL BE BRONZE, THE GROUND BENEATH YOU IRON. The sky like bronze just means that it will be really hot, more so than ever before. The ground like iron means that it will be just about impossible to grow anything in the ground because it will be so hard and dry; there will be nothing but dust everywhere.
24 THE LORD WILL TURN THE RAIN OF YOUR COUNTRY INTO DUST AND POWDER; IT WILL COME DOWN FROM THE SKIES UNTIL YOU ARE DESTROYED. This is just part of the one before it.
25 THE LORD WILL CAUSE YOU TO BE DEFEATED BEFORE YOUR ENEMIES. YOU WILL COME AT THEM FROM ONE DIRECTION BUT FLEE FROM THEM IN SEVEN, AND YOU WILL BECOME A THING OF HORROR TO ALL THE KINGDOMS ON EARTH. Yikes! This has never happened to our country before, and I don't look forward to when it does happen. I'm hoping this one won't happen until after the rapture!
26 YOUR CARCASSES WILL BE FOOD FOR ALL THE BIRDS OF THE AIR AND THE BEASTS OF THE EARTH, AND THERE WILL BE NO ONE TO FRIGHTEN THEM AWAY. The defeat will be so great that there won't be enough people left to bury the dead.
27 THE LORD WILL AFFLICT YOU WITH THE BOILS OF EGYPT AND WITH TUMORS, FESTERING SORES AND THE ITCH, FROM WHICH YOU CANNOT BE CURED. As the LORD had once struck Egypt with boils (Ex. 9:8–12) and sent confusion to Pharaoh’s army (Ex. 14:23–28) so He would afflict Israel with these things (“diseases” in Ex. 15:26; Deut. 7:15; Deut. 7:28:60; also note 28:35).
28 THE LORD WILL AFFLICT YOU WITH MADNESS, BLINDNESS AND CONFUSION OF MIND.
29 AT MIDDAY YOU WILL GROPE ABOUT LIKE A BLIND MAN IN THE DARK. YOU WILL BE UNSUCCESSFUL IN EVERYTHING YOU DO; DAY AFTER DAY YOU WILL BE OPPRESSED AND ROBBED, WITH NO ONE TO RESCUE YOU. The physical and mental afflictions would be so great that the Israelites would not have the strength or presence of mind to complete any task (they would be unsuccessful in everything), nor could they defend themselves from oppressors.
30 YOU WILL BE PLEDGED TO BE MARRIED TO A WOMAN, BUT ANOTHER WILL TAKE HER AND RAVISH HER. YOU WILL BUILD A HOUSE, BUT YOU WILL NOT LIVE IN IT. YOU WILL PLANT A VINEYARD, BUT YOU WILL NOT EVEN BEGIN TO ENJOY ITS FRUIT.
31 YOUR OX WILL BE SLAUGHTERED BEFORE YOUR EYES, BUT YOU WILL EAT NONE OF IT. YOUR DONKEY WILL BE FORCIBLY TAKEN FROM YOU AND WILL NOT BE RETURNED. YOUR SHEEP WILL BE GIVEN TO YOUR ENEMIES, AND NO ONE WILL RESCUE THEM. Everyone will turn against their own family and friends as well as those they don't know.
I don't have time to explain or comment on the rest right now. Maybe I'll be able to another day. But most are self explanatory, and I'm sure we can all see many of them starting to happen today, or conditions changing so that it could happen. So here are the rest of them:
32 YOUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS WILL BE GIVEN TO ANOTHER NATION, AND YOU WILL WEAR OUT YOUR EYES WATCHING FOR THEM DAY AFTER DAY, POWERLESS TO LIFT A HAND.
33 A PEOPLE THAT YOU DO NOT KNOW WILL EAT WHAT YOUR LAND AND LABOR PRODUCE, AND YOU WILL HAVE NOTHING BUT CRUEL OPPRESSION ALL YOUR DAYS.
34 THE SIGHTS YOU SEE WILL DRIVE YOU MAD.
35 THE LORD WILL AFFLICT YOUR KNEES AND LEGS WITH PAINFUL BOILS THAT CANNOT BE CURED, SPREADING FROM THE SOLES OF YOUR FEET TO THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD.
36 THE LORD WILL DRIVE YOU AND THE KING YOU SET OVER YOU TO A NATION UNKNOWN TO YOU OR YOUR FATHERS. THERE YOU WILL WORSHIP OTHER GODS, GODS OF WOOD AND STONE.
37 YOU WILL BECOME A THING OF HORROR AND AN OBJECT OF SCORN AND RIDICULE TO ALL THE NATIONS WHERE THE LORD WILL DRIVE YOU.
38 YOU WILL SOW MUCH SEED IN THE FIELD BUT YOU WILL HARVEST LITTLE, BECAUSE LOCUSTS WILL DEVOUR IT.
39 YOU WILL PLANT VINEYARDS AND CULTIVATE THEM BUT YOU WILL NOT DRINK THE WINE OR GATHER THE GRAPES, BECAUSE WORMS WILL EAT THEM.
40 YOU WILL HAVE OLIVE TREES THROUGHOUT YOUR COUNTRY BUT YOU WILL NOT USE THE OIL, BECAUSE THE OLIVES WILL DROP OFF. 41 YOU WILL HAVE SONS AND DAUGHTERS BUT YOU WILL NOT KEEP THEM, BECAUSE THEY WILL GO INTO CAPTIVITY.
42 SWARMS OF LOCUSTS WILL TAKE OVER ALL YOUR TREES AND THE CROPS OF YOUR LAND.
43 THE ALIEN WHO LIVES AMONG YOU WILL RISE ABOVE YOU HIGHER AND HIGHER, BUT YOU WILL SINK LOWER AND LOWER.
44 HE WILL LEND TO YOU, BUT YOU WILL NOT LEND TO HIM. HE WILL BE THE HEAD, BUT YOU WILL BE THE TAIL.
45 ALL THESE CURSES WILL COME UPON YOU. THEY WILL PURSUE YOU AND OVERTAKE YOU UNTIL YOU ARE DESTROYED, BECAUSE YOU DID NOT OBEY THE LORD YOUR GOD AND OBSERVE THE COMMANDS AND DECREES HE GAVE YOU.
46 THEY WILL BE A SIGN AND A WONDER TO YOU AND YOUR DESCENDANTS FOREVER.
47 BECAUSE YOU DID NOT SERVE THE LORD YOUR GOD JOYFULLY AND GLADLY IN THE TIME OF PROSPERITY,
48 THEREFORE IN HUNGER AND THIRST, IN NAKEDNESS AND DIRE POVERTY, YOU WILL SERVE THE ENEMIES THE LORD SENDS AGAINST YOU. HE WILL PUT AN IRON YOKE ON YOUR NECK UNTIL HE HAS DESTROYED YOU.
49 THE LORD WILL BRING A NATION AGAINST YOU FROM FAR AWAY, FROM THE ENDS OF THE EARTH, LIKE AN EAGLE SWOOPING DOWN, A NATION WHOSE LANGUAGE YOU WILL NOT UNDERSTAND,
50 A FIERCE-LOOKING NATION WITHOUT RESPECT FOR THE OLD OR PITY FOR THE YOUNG.
51 THEY WILL DEVOUR THE YOUNG OF YOUR LIVESTOCK AND THE CROPS OF YOUR LAND UNTIL YOU ARE DESTROYED. THEY WILL LEAVE YOU NO GRAIN, NEW WINE OR OIL, NOR ANY CALVES OF YOUR HERDS OR LAMBS OF YOUR FLOCKS UNTIL YOU ARE RUINED.
52 THEY WILL LAY SIEGE TO ALL THE CITIES THROUGHOUT YOUR LAND UNTIL THE HIGH FORTIFIED WALLS IN WHICH YOU TRUST FALL DOWN. THEY WILL BESIEGE ALL THE CITIES THROUGHOUT THE LAND THE LORD YOUR GOD IS GIVING YOU.
53 BECAUSE OF THE SUFFERING THAT YOUR ENEMY WILL INFLICT ON YOU DURING THE SIEGE, YOU WILL EAT THE FRUIT OF THE WOMB, THE FLESH OF THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS THE LORD YOUR GOD HAS GIVEN YOU.
54 EVEN THE MOST GENTLE AND SENSITIVE MAN AMONG YOU WILL HAVE NO COMPASSION ON HIS OWN BROTHER OR THE WIFE HE LOVES OR HIS SURVIVING CHILDREN,
55 AND HE WILL NOT GIVE TO ONE OF THEM ANY OF THE FLESH OF HIS CHILDREN THAT HE IS EATING. IT WILL BE ALL HE HAS LEFT BECAUSE OF THE SUFFERING YOUR ENEMY WILL INFLICT ON YOU DURING THE SIEGE OF ALL YOUR CITIES.
56 THE MOST GENTLE AND SENSITIVE WOMAN AMONG YOU—SO SENSITIVE AND GENTLE THAT SHE WOULD NOT VENTURE TO TOUCH THE GROUND WITH THE SOLE OF HER FOOT—WILL BEGRUDGE THE HUSBAND SHE LOVES AND HER OWN SON OR DAUGHTER
57 THE AFTERBIRTH FROM HER WOMB AND THE CHILDREN SHE BEARS. FOR SHE INTENDS TO EAT THEM SECRETLY DURING THE SIEGE AND IN THE DISTRESS THAT YOUR ENEMY WILL INFLICT ON YOU IN YOUR CITIES.
58 IF YOU DO NOT CAREFULLY FOLLOW ALL THE WORDS OF THIS LAW, WHICH ARE WRITTEN IN THIS BOOK, AND DO NOT REVERE THIS GLORIOUS AND AWESOME NAME—THE LORD YOUR GOD—
59 THE LORD WILL SEND FEARFUL PLAGUES ON YOU AND YOUR DESCENDANTS, HARSH AND PROLONGED DISASTERS, AND SEVERE AND LINGERING ILLNESSES.
60 HE WILL BRING UPON YOU ALL THE DISEASES OF EGYPT THAT YOU DREADED, AND THEY WILL CLING TO YOU.
61 THE LORD WILL ALSO BRING ON YOU EVERY KIND OF SICKNESS AND DISASTER NOT RECORDED IN THIS BOOK OF THE LAW, UNTIL YOU ARE DESTROYED.
62 YOU WHO WERE AS NUMEROUS AS THE STARS IN THE SKY WILL BE LEFT BUT FEW IN NUMBER, BECAUSE YOU DID NOT OBEY THE LORD YOUR GOD.
63 JUST AS IT PLEASED THE LORD TO MAKE YOU PROSPER AND INCREASE IN NUMBER, SO IT WILL PLEASE HIM TO RUIN AND DESTROY YOU. YOU WILL BE UPROOTED FROM THE LAND YOU ARE ENTERING TO POSSESS.
64 THEN THE LORD WILL SCATTER YOU AMONG ALL NATIONS, FROM ONE END OF THE EARTH TO THE OTHER. THERE YOU WILL WORSHIP OTHER GODS—GODS OF WOOD AND STONE, WHICH NEITHER YOU NOR YOUR FATHERS HAVE KNOWN.
65 AMONG THOSE NATIONS YOU WILL FIND NO REPOSE, NO RESTING PLACE FOR THE SOLE OF YOUR FOOT. THERE THE LORD WILL GIVE YOU AN ANXIOUS MIND, EYES WEARY WITH LONGING, AND A DESPAIRING HEART.
66 YOU WILL LIVE IN CONSTANT SUSPENSE, FILLED WITH DREAD BOTH NIGHT AND DAY, NEVER SURE OF YOUR LIFE.
67 IN THE MORNING YOU WILL SAY, “If only it were evening!” AND IN THE EVENING, “If only it were morning!”—BECAUSE OF THE TERROR THAT WILL FILL YOUR HEARTS AND THE SIGHTS THAT YOUR EYES WILL SEE.
68 The LORD will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again. There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.
What do you think?