Parallel Verses
- Amplified Bible - When they go, I will spread My net over them; I will bring them down like birds of the heavens [into Assyrian captivity]. I will chastise them in accordance with the proclamation (prophecy) to their congregation.
- 新标点和合本 - 他们去的时候，我必将我的网撒在他们身上； 我要打下他们，如同空中的鸟。 我必按他们会众所听见的惩罚他们。
- 和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 他们去的时候，我要把我的网撒在他们身上； 我要捕获他们如同空中的鸟。 我必按他们会众所听到的 惩罚他们。
- 和合本2010（神版-简体） - 他们去的时候，我要把我的网撒在他们身上； 我要捕获他们如同空中的鸟。 我必按他们会众所听到的 惩罚他们。
- 当代译本 - 他们去的时候， 我要张网网住他们， 我要像打落飞鸟一样打落他们。 我要按他们的恶行 惩罚他们。
- 圣经新译本 - 但他们去的时候，我要把我的网撒在他们身上； 我要把他们如同空中的飞鸟打下来。 我要按着他们会众所听见的，惩罚他们。
- 现代标点和合本 - 他们去的时候，我必将我的网撒在他们身上， 我要打下他们，如同空中的鸟。 我必按他们会众所听见的惩罚他们。
- 和合本（拼音版） - 他们去的时候，我必将我的网撒在他们身上， 我要打下他们如同空中的鸟。 我必按他们会众所听见的惩罚他们。
- New International Version - When they go, I will throw my net over them; I will pull them down like the birds in the sky. When I hear them flocking together, I will catch them.
- New International Reader's Version - When they send for help, I will throw my net over them. I will capture them like the birds in the sky. When I hear them gathering like birds, I will catch them.
- English Standard Version - As they go, I will spread over them my net; I will bring them down like birds of the heavens; I will discipline them according to the report made to their congregation.
- New Living Translation - But as they fly about, I will throw my net over them and bring them down like a bird from the sky. I will punish them for all the evil they do.
- Christian Standard Bible - As they are going, I will spread my net over them; I will bring them down like birds of the sky. I will discipline them in accordance with the news that reaches their assembly.
- New American Standard Bible - When they go, I will spread My net over them; I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will discipline them in accordance with the proclamation to their assembly.
- New King James Version - Wherever they go, I will spread My net on them; I will bring them down like birds of the air; I will chastise them According to what their congregation has heard.
- American Standard Version - When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the birds of the heavens; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.
- King James Version - When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.
- New English Translation - I will throw my bird net over them while they are flying, I will bring them down like birds in the sky; I will discipline them when I hear them flocking together.
- World English Bible - When they go, I will spread my net on them. I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.
- 新標點和合本 - 他們去的時候，我必將我的網撒在他們身上； 我要打下他們，如同空中的鳥。 我必按他們會眾所聽見的懲罰他們。
- 和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 他們去的時候，我要把我的網撒在他們身上； 我要捕獲他們如同空中的鳥。 我必按他們會眾所聽到的 懲罰他們。
- 和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 他們去的時候，我要把我的網撒在他們身上； 我要捕獲他們如同空中的鳥。 我必按他們會眾所聽到的 懲罰他們。
- 當代譯本 - 他們去的時候， 我要張網網住他們， 我要像打落飛鳥一樣打落他們。 我要按他們的惡行 懲罰他們。
- 聖經新譯本 - 但他們去的時候，我要把我的網撒在他們身上； 我要把他們如同空中的飛鳥打下來。 我要按著他們會眾所聽見的，懲罰他們。
- 呂振中譯本 - 他們一去，我就將我的網子 撒在他們身上； 我必將他們打下來 如同空中的飛鳥； 我必按他們壞行為之貫滿 懲罰他們。
- 現代標點和合本 - 他們去的時候，我必將我的網撒在他們身上， 我要打下他們，如同空中的鳥。 我必按他們會眾所聽見的懲罰他們。
- 文理和合譯本 - 彼往時、我必張網其上、若墜飛鳥、必依其會眾所聞而責之、
- 文理委辦譯本 - 斯時我將張網陷之、有若飛鳥、必加譴責、應我前言、
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 彼往時、我必為之張我網、我必羅之如空中飛鳥、必加懲罰、循所宣告其會眾之言、
- Nueva Versión Internacional - Pero, tan pronto como lo hagan, lanzaré mi red sobre ellos; los derribaré como a las aves del cielo, ¡siete veces los castigaré por sus pecados!
- 현대인의 성경 - 그러나 그가 갈 때에 내가 그물을 던져 공중의 새처럼 그를 아래로 끌어당기고 그 행한 악에 대하여 그를 벌할 것이다.
- Новый Русский Перевод - Когда они пойдут, Я накину на них Свою сеть; Я низвергну их, как птиц небесных. Я накажу их, как им и было сказано в собрании.
- Восточный перевод - Когда они пойдут, Я накину на них Свою сеть; Я низвергну их, как птиц небесных. Я накажу их, как было сказано их собранию.
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Когда они пойдут, Я накину на них Свою сеть; Я низвергну их, как птиц небесных. Я накажу их, как было сказано их собранию.
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Когда они пойдут, Я накину на них Свою сеть; Я низвергну их, как птиц небесных. Я накажу их, как было сказано их собранию.
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Mais pendant qu’il y va, je lance mon filet sur lui et je le fais tomber ╵comme un oiseau. Je le corrigerai ╵lorsque je l’entendrai ╵se rassembler.
- リビングバイブル - だが、わたしは飛んでいるイスラエルに網を投げ、 空から落ちる鳥のように引き落とす。 わたしは、そのすべての悪行に報いる。
- Nova Versão Internacional - Quando se forem, atirarei sobre eles a minha rede; eu os farei descer como as aves dos céus. Quando os ouvir em sua reunião, eu os apanharei.
- Hoffnung für alle - Weil sie hierhin und dorthin laufen, will ich ein Netz aufspannen und sie darin fangen wie einen Vogel. Ja, ich fange sie ein und bestrafe sie, wie ich es ihrem ganzen Volk angedroht habe!
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Khi chúng bay đi, Ta sẽ giăng lưới bắt chúng và bắt chúng như bắt chim trời. Ta sẽ trừng phạt chúng vì các việc làm gian ác.
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - เมื่อพวกเขาไป เราจะเหวี่ยงตาข่ายของเราจับเขาไว้ เราจะดึงพวกเขาลงมาเหมือนนกในอากาศ เมื่อเราได้ยินเสียงเขาจับกลุ่มกัน เราจะจับเขา
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ขณะที่พวกเขาไป เราจะเหวี่ยงตาข่ายของเรา เราจะดึงพวกเขาให้ลงมาอย่างพวกนกในอากาศ เวลาเราได้ยินเสียงพวกเขารวมตัวกันเป็นฝูง เราก็จะจับพวกเขาไว้
Cross Reference
- Leviticus 26:14 - ‘But if you do not obey Me and do not [obediently] do all these commandments,
- Leviticus 26:15 - if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul rejects My ordinances, so that you will not [obediently] do all My commandments, and in this way break My covenant,
- Leviticus 26:16 - I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint over you sudden terror, consumption, and fever that will waste away the eyes and cause the soul to languish also. And you will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat what you plant.
- Leviticus 26:17 - I will set My face against you so that you will be struck down before your enemies; those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one is pursuing you.
- Leviticus 26:18 - If in spite of all this you still will not listen to Me and be obedient, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
- Leviticus 26:19 - I will break your pride in your power, and I will make your sky like iron [giving no rain and blocking all prayers] and your ground like bronze [hard to plow and yielding no produce].
- Leviticus 26:20 - Your strength will be spent uselessly, for your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit.
- Leviticus 26:21 - ‘If then, you act with hostility toward Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you seven times in accordance with your sins.
- Leviticus 26:22 - I will let loose the [wild] animals of the field among you, which will bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock and make you so few in number that your roads will lie deserted and desolate.
- Leviticus 26:23 - ‘And if by these things you are not turned to Me, but act with hostility against Me,
- Leviticus 26:24 - then I also will act with hostility against you, and I will strike you seven times for your sins.
- Leviticus 26:25 - I will bring a sword on you that will execute vengeance for [breaking] the covenant; and when you gather together in your cities, I will send pestilence (virulent disease) among you, and you shall be handed over to the enemy.
- Leviticus 26:26 - When I break your staff of bread [that is, cut off your supply of food], ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will ration your bread; and you will eat and not be satisfied.
- Leviticus 26:27 - ‘Yet if in spite of this you will not [attentively] listen to Me but act with hostility against me,
- Leviticus 26:28 - then I will act with hostility against you in wrath, and I also will punish you seven times for your sins.
- Leviticus 26:29 - You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.
- Leviticus 26:30 - I will destroy your high places [devoted to idolatrous worship], and cut down your incense altars, and heap your dead bodies upon the [crushed] bodies of your idols, and My soul will detest you [with deep and unutterable loathing].
- Leviticus 26:31 - I will lay waste your cities as well and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your sweet and soothing aromas [of offerings by fire].
- Leviticus 26:32 - I will make the land desolate, and your enemies who settle in it will be appalled at it.
- Leviticus 26:33 - I will scatter you among the nations and draw out the sword [of your enemies] after you; your land will become desolate and your cities will become ruins.
- Leviticus 26:34 - ‘Then the land [of Israel] will enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
- Leviticus 26:35 - As long as it lies desolate, it will have rest, the rest it did not have on your Sabbaths, while you were living on it.
- Leviticus 26:36 - As for those who are left of you, I will bring despair (lack of courage, weakness) into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; the sound of a scattered leaf will put them to flight, and they will flee as if [running] from the sword, and will fall even when no one is chasing them.
- Leviticus 26:37 - They shall stumble over one another as if to escape from a sword when no one is chasing them; and you will have no power to stand before your enemies.
- Leviticus 26:38 - You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will consume you.
- Leviticus 26:39 - Those of you who are left will rot away because of their wickedness in the lands of your enemies; also because of the wickedness of their forefathers they will rot away like them.
- Leviticus 26:40 - ‘If they confess their wickedness and the wickedness of their forefathers, in their unfaithfulness which they have committed against Me—and also in their acting with hostility toward Me—
- Leviticus 26:41 - I also was acting with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—then if their uncircumcised (sin-filled) hearts are humbled and they accept the punishment for their wickedness,
- Leviticus 26:42 - then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and also My covenant with Isaac, and also My covenant with Abraham, and remember the land.
- Leviticus 26:43 - But the land will be abandoned by them and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; and they will accept the punishment for their wickedness and make amends because they rejected My ordinances and their soul rejected My statutes.
- Leviticus 26:44 - Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I so despise them as to destroy them, breaking My covenant with them; for I am the Lord their God.
- Leviticus 26:45 - But I will, for their sake, [earnestly] remember the covenant with their forefathers, whom I have brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the Lord.’ ”
- Leviticus 26:46 - These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws which the Lord established between Himself and the Israelites through Moses at Mount Sinai.
- Job 19:6 - Know then that God has wronged me and overthrown me And has closed His net around me.
- 2 Kings 17:13 - Yet the Lord warned Israel and Judah through all His prophets and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep My commandments and My statutes, in accordance with all the Law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by My servants the prophets.”
- 2 Kings 17:14 - However they did not listen, but stiffened their necks as did their fathers who did not believe (trust in, rely on, remain steadfast to) the Lord their God.
- 2 Kings 17:15 - They rejected His statutes and His covenant which He made with their fathers, as well as His warnings that he gave them. And they followed vanity [that is, false gods, idols] and became vain (empty-headed). They followed the [pagan practices of the] nations which surrounded them, although the Lord had commanded that they were not to do as they did.
- 2 Kings 17:16 - They abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God and made for themselves cast images of two calves; and they made an Asherah [idol] and worshiped all the [starry] host of heaven and served Baal.
- 2 Kings 17:17 - They made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire [as human sacrifices], and used divination [to foretell the future] and enchantments; and they sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him to anger.
- 2 Kings 17:18 - Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them from His sight; none [of the tribes] was left except the tribe of Judah.
- Ezekiel 17:20 - I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare; and I will bring him to Babylon and will enter into judgment with him there for his treason which he has committed against Me.
- Jeremiah 16:16 - “Behold (listen carefully), I will send for many fishermen,” says the Lord, “and they will fish for them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and from every hill and out of the clefts of the rocks.
- Jeremiah 44:4 - Yet I sent to you all My servants the prophets, again and again, saying, “Oh, do not do this shamefully vile thing which I hate.”
- Revelation 3:19 - Those whom I [dearly and tenderly] love, I rebuke and discipline [showing them their faults and instructing them]; so be enthusiastic and repent [change your inner self—your old way of thinking, your sinful behavior—seek God’s will].
- Deuteronomy 29:22 - Now the next generation, your children who come after you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land, when they see the plagues of this land and the diseases with which the Lord has afflicted it, will say,
- Deuteronomy 29:23 - ‘The whole land is brimstone and salt, a burning waste, unsown and unproductive, and no grass grows in it; it is like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and wrath.’
- Deuteronomy 29:24 - All the nations will say, ‘Why has the Lord done this thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’
- Deuteronomy 29:25 - Then people will say, ‘It is because they abandoned (broke) the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 29:26 - For they went and served other gods and worshiped them, [false] gods whom they have not known and whom He had not allotted (given) to them.
- Deuteronomy 29:27 - So the anger of the Lord burned against this land, bringing on it every curse that is written in this book;
- Deuteronomy 29:28 - and the Lord uprooted them from their land in anger and in wrath and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.’
- Ecclesiastes 9:12 - For man also does not know his time [of death]; like fish caught in a treacherous net, and birds caught in the snare, so the sons of men are ensnared in an evil time when a dark cloud suddenly falls on them.
- Deuteronomy 31:16 - The Lord said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down [in death] with your fathers; and this people will arise and play the prostitute (commit apostasy) with the foreign gods [of the people] of the land, where they go to be among them. They will abandon (turn away from) Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.
- Deuteronomy 31:17 - Then My anger will be kindled and burn against them in that day, and I will abandon (turn away from) them and hide My face from them. They will be devoured, and many evils and troubles will come on them, so that they will say in that day, ‘Is it not because our God is not among us that these evils have come on us?’
- Deuteronomy 31:18 - But I will certainly hide My face [from them] in that day because of all the evil which they will do, for they will turn to other gods [to worship lifeless idols, to honor handmade relics].
- Deuteronomy 31:19 - “Now then, write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the sons of Israel; put it in their mouth, so that this song may be a witness for Me against the sons of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 31:20 - For when I bring them into the land which I have sworn to their fathers, a land [of plenty] flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and are satisfied and become prosperous, then they will turn to other gods and serve them, and despise and reject Me and break My covenant.
- Deuteronomy 31:21 - Then it shall come about, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this [sacred] song will confront them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten from the mouth of their descendants. For I know their inclination which is developing even now, before I bring them into the land which I have sworn to give them.”
- Deuteronomy 31:22 - So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the children of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 31:23 - Then He commanded and commissioned Joshua, the son of Nun, and said, “Be strong and courageous, for you will bring the sons of Israel into the land which I have sworn to give them, and I will be with you.”
- Deuteronomy 31:24 - And when Moses completely finished writing the words of this law in a book,
- Deuteronomy 31:25 - he commanded the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying,
- Deuteronomy 31:26 - “Take this Book of the Law and put it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, so that it may remain there as a witness against you.
- Deuteronomy 31:27 - For I know your rebellion and contention and your stubbornness; behold, while I am still alive with you today, you have been rebellious against the Lord; how much more, then, after my death?
- Deuteronomy 31:28 - Assemble before me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, so that I may speak these words in their hearing and call heaven and earth as witnesses against them.
- Deuteronomy 31:29 - For I know that after my death you will behave corruptly and turn from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will come upon you in the latter days, because you will do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him to anger with the work of your hands.”
- Ezekiel 32:3 - Thus says the Lord God, “I will spread out My net over you With a company of many nations, And they will bring you up in My net.
- Deuteronomy 32:15 - “But Jeshurun (Israel) became fat and kicked [at God]. You became fat, thick, sleek, and obstinate! Then he abandoned God who had made him, And scorned the Rock of his salvation.
- Deuteronomy 32:16 - They provoked Him to jealousy with strange gods [by denying Him the honor and loyalty that is rightfully and uniquely His]; And with repulsive acts they provoked Him to anger.
- Deuteronomy 32:17 - They sacrificed to demons, not to God, To gods whom they have not known, New gods who came lately, Whom your fathers never feared.
- Deuteronomy 32:18 - You were unmindful of the Rock who bore you, And you forgot the God who gave you birth.
- Deuteronomy 32:19 - “The Lord saw it, and rejected them, Out of indignation with His sons and His daughters.
- Deuteronomy 32:20 - Then He said, ‘I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end shall be; For they are a perverse generation, Sons in whom there is no faithfulness.
- Deuteronomy 32:21 - They have made Me jealous with what is not God; They have provoked Me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
- Deuteronomy 32:22 - For a fire is kindled by My anger, And it burns to the depths of Sheol (the place of the dead, the nether world), It devours the earth with its yield, And sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
- Deuteronomy 32:23 - ‘I will heap misfortunes on them; I will use My arrows on them.
- Deuteronomy 32:24 - They will be wasted by hunger, and consumed by plague And a bitter destruction; And I will send the teeth of beasts against them, With the venom of crawling things of the dust.
- Deuteronomy 32:25 - Outside the sword will bereave, And inside [the chambers] terror— For both young man and virgin, For the nursing child and the man of gray hair.
- Deuteronomy 32:26 - I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces [scattering them far away], I will remove the memory of them from men,”
- Deuteronomy 32:27 - Had I not feared the provocation of the enemy, That their adversaries would misjudge, That they would say, “Our [own] hand has prevailed, And the Lord has not done all this.” ’
- Deuteronomy 32:28 - “For they are a nation devoid of counsel, And there is no understanding in them.
- Deuteronomy 32:29 - O that they were wise, that they understood this, That they could discern their future and ultimate fate!
- Deuteronomy 32:30 - How could one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Unless their Rock had sold them, And the Lord had given them up?
- Deuteronomy 32:31 - For their rock is not like our Rock, Even our enemies themselves judge this.
- Deuteronomy 32:32 - For their vine is from the vine of Sodom, And from the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes are grapes of poison, Their clusters, bitter.
- Deuteronomy 32:33 - Their wine is the venom of serpents, And the deadly poison of vipers.
- Deuteronomy 32:34 - ‘Is it not laid up in store with Me, Sealed up in My treasuries?
- Deuteronomy 32:35 - Vengeance is Mine, and retribution, In due time their foot will slip; For the day of their disaster is at hand, And their doom hurries to meet them.’
- Deuteronomy 32:36 - For the Lord will vindicate His people, And will have compassion on His servants, When He sees that their strength (hand) is gone, And none remains, whether bond or free.
- Deuteronomy 32:37 - And He will say, ‘Where are their gods, The rock in which they took refuge?
- Deuteronomy 32:38 - Who ate the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you, Let them be your hiding place!
- Deuteronomy 32:39 - See now that I, I am He, And there is no god besides Me; It is I who put to death and I who give life. I have wounded and it is I who heal, And there is no one who can deliver from [the power of] My hand.
- Deuteronomy 32:40 - Indeed, I lift up My hand to heaven, And say (swear an oath), as I live forever,
- Deuteronomy 32:41 - If I sharpen the lightning of My sword, And My hand takes hold of judgment, I will render vengeance on My adversaries, And I will repay those who hate Me.
- Deuteronomy 32:42 - I will make My arrows drunk with blood, And My sword will devour flesh, With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the heads of the leaders of the enemy.’
- Deuteronomy 32:43 - Rejoice, O nations, with His people; For He will avenge the blood of His servants, And will render vengeance on His adversaries, And will atone for His land and His people.”
- Deuteronomy 28:15 - “But it shall come about, if you do not listen to and obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all His commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today, then all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
- Deuteronomy 28:16 - “You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the field.
- Deuteronomy 28:17 - “Your basket and your kneading bowl will be cursed.
- Deuteronomy 28:18 - “The offspring of your body and the produce of your land, the offspring of your herd and the young of your flock will be cursed.
- Deuteronomy 28:19 - “You will be cursed when you come in and you will be cursed when you go out.
- Deuteronomy 28:20 - “The Lord will send upon you curses, confusion, and rebuke in everything that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed, perishing quickly because of the evil of your deeds, because you have turned away from Me.
- Deuteronomy 28:21 - The Lord will make the pestilence and plague cling to you until He has consumed and eliminated you from the land which you are entering to possess.
- Deuteronomy 28:22 - The Lord will strike you with consumption [causing you to waste away] and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with the sword and with blight and with mildew [on your crops]; and they will pursue you until you perish.
- Deuteronomy 28:23 - The heaven which is over your head shall be bronze [giving no rain and blocking all prayers], and the earth which is under you, iron [hard to plow and yielding no produce].
- Deuteronomy 28:24 - The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it will come down on you until you are destroyed.
- Deuteronomy 28:25 - “The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you will go out against them one way, but flee before them seven ways, and you will be an example of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth [when they see your destruction].
- Deuteronomy 28:26 - Your carcasses will be food for all the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.
- Deuteronomy 28:27 - “The Lord will strike you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and with the scab and the itch that you cannot heal.
- Deuteronomy 28:28 - The Lord will strike you with madness and with blindness and with bewilderment of heart and mind;
- Deuteronomy 28:29 - and you will be groping at noon [in broad daylight], just as the blind grope in the darkness, and nothing you do will prosper; but you will only be oppressed and exploited and robbed continually, with no one to save you.
- Deuteronomy 28:30 - You will be pledged to marry a wife, but another man will be intimate with her [before you]; you will build a house, but you will not live in it; you will plant a vineyard, but you will not use its fruit.
- Deuteronomy 28:31 - Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it; your donkey will be torn away from you, and it will not be returned to you; your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to save you.
- Deuteronomy 28:32 - Your sons and daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes look on and long for them continually; but there will be nothing you can do.
- Deuteronomy 28:33 - A people whom you do not know will eat the produce of your land and all the products of your labors, and you will never be anything but oppressed and exploited and crushed continually.
- Deuteronomy 28:34 - You shall be driven mad by the sight of the things you see.
- Deuteronomy 28:35 - The Lord will strike you on the knees and on the legs with sore boils that you cannot heal, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
- Deuteronomy 28:36 - The Lord will bring you and your king, whom you appoint over you, to a nation which you and your fathers have never known; there you will [be forced to] serve other gods, [lifeless gods of] wood and stone.
- Deuteronomy 28:37 - And you will become a horror, a proverb [a mere object lesson], and a taunt [a derisive joke] among all the people to which the Lord drives you.
- Deuteronomy 28:38 - “You will bring out a great quantity of seed to the field, but you will gather in little, because the locusts will consume it.
- Deuteronomy 28:39 - You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because the worm will eat them.
- Deuteronomy 28:40 - You will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourselves with the oil, because your olives will drop off.
- Deuteronomy 28:41 - You will have sons and daughters, but they will not be yours [for long], because they will go into captivity.
- Deuteronomy 28:42 - The cricket will take possession of all your trees and the produce of your ground.
- Deuteronomy 28:43 - The stranger who lives among you will rise above you higher and higher, and you will go down lower and lower.
- Deuteronomy 28:44 - He will lend to you [out of his affluence], but you will not lend to him [because of your poverty]; he will be the head, and you the tail.
- Deuteronomy 28:45 - “So all these curses will come on you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He has commanded you.
- Deuteronomy 28:46 - They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever.
- Deuteronomy 28:47 - “Because you did not serve the Lord your God with a heart full of joy and gladness for the abundance of all things [with which He blessed you],
- Deuteronomy 28:48 - you will therefore serve your enemies whom the Lord sends against you, in hunger and in thirst, in nakedness and in lack of all things; and He will put an iron yoke [of slavery] on your neck until He has destroyed you.
- Deuteronomy 28:49 - “The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, [as swift] as the eagle swoops down [to attack], a nation whose language you will not understand,
- Deuteronomy 28:50 - a defiant nation who will have no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young,
- Deuteronomy 28:51 - and it will eat the offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed, who will leave you no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the offspring of your herd or the young of your flock until they have caused you to perish.
- Deuteronomy 28:52 - They will besiege you in all your cities until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout your land; and they will besiege you in all your cities throughout your land which the Lord your God has given you.
- Deuteronomy 28:53 - Then you will eat the offspring of your own body [to avoid starvation], the flesh of your sons and daughters whom the Lord your God has given you, during the siege and the misery by which your enemy will oppress you.
- Deuteronomy 28:54 - The man who is most refined and well-bred among you will be cruel and hostile toward his brother and toward the wife he cherishes and toward the rest of his children who remain,
- Deuteronomy 28:55 - so that he will not give even one of them any of the flesh of his children which he will eat, because he has nothing else left, during the siege and the misery by which your enemy will oppress you in all your cities.
- Deuteronomy 28:56 - The most refined and well-bred woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and pampered, will be cruel and hostile toward the husband she cherishes and toward her son and daughter,
- Deuteronomy 28:57 - and toward her afterbirth that comes from between her legs and toward the children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of anything else, during the siege and the misery by which your enemy will oppress you in your cities.
- Deuteronomy 28:58 - “If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, to fear and honor with reverence this glorious and awesome name, the Lord your God,
- Deuteronomy 28:59 - then the Lord will bring extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants, even severe and lasting plagues, and miserable and chronic sicknesses.
- Deuteronomy 28:60 - Moreover, He will bring on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you.
- Deuteronomy 28:61 - Also the Lord will bring on you every sickness and every plague which is not written in this book of this law, until you are destroyed.
- Deuteronomy 28:62 - Because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, you who were as numerous as the stars of heaven shall be left few in number.
- Deuteronomy 28:63 - It shall come about that just as the Lord delighted over you to make you prosper and multiply, so the Lord will delight over you to bring you to ruin and destruction; and you will be uprooted [violently] from the land which you are entering to possess.
- Deuteronomy 28:64 - And the Lord will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other; and there you will [be forced to] serve other gods, [lifeless gods of] wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
- Deuteronomy 28:65 - Among those nations you will find no peace (rest), and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.
- Deuteronomy 28:66 - Your life will hang in doubt before you; night and day you will be filled with anxiety and have no assurance of living.
- Deuteronomy 28:67 - In the morning you will say, ‘I wish it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘I wish it were morning!’—because of the dread in your heart with which you tremble, and because of the sight of your eyes which you will see.
- Deuteronomy 28:68 - The Lord will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way about which I said to you, ‘You will never see it again!’ And there you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no one to buy you.”
- Ezekiel 12:13 - I will also spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. And I will bring him to Babylon, to the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, though he will die there.