逐节对照
- Christian Standard Bible - Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.
- 新标点和合本 - 公义使邦国高举; 罪恶是人民的羞辱。
- 和合本2010(上帝版-简体) - 公义使邦国高举; 罪恶是百姓的羞辱。
- 和合本2010(神版-简体) - 公义使邦国高举; 罪恶是百姓的羞辱。
- 当代译本 - 公义能叫邦国兴盛, 罪恶是人民的耻辱。
- 圣经新译本 - 正义使国家兴盛, 罪恶是人民的羞辱。
- 中文标准译本 - 公义使国家兴起, 罪恶是国民的耻辱。
- 现代标点和合本 - 公义使邦国高举, 罪恶是人民的羞辱。
- 和合本(拼音版) - 公义使邦国高举, 罪恶是人民的羞辱。
- New International Version - Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin condemns any people.
- New International Reader's Version - Doing what is right lifts people up. But sin brings judgment to any nation.
- English Standard Version - Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.
- New Living Translation - Godliness makes a nation great, but sin is a disgrace to any people.
- The Message - God-devotion makes a country strong; God-avoidance leaves people weak.
- New American Standard Bible - Righteousness exalts a nation, But sin is a disgrace to any people.
- New King James Version - Righteousness exalts a nation, But sin is a reproach to any people.
- Amplified Bible - Righteousness [moral and spiritual integrity and virtuous character] exalts a nation, But sin is a disgrace to any people.
- American Standard Version - Righteousness exalteth a nation; But sin is a reproach to any people.
- King James Version - Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.
- New English Translation - Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.
- World English Bible - Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.
- 新標點和合本 - 公義使邦國高舉; 罪惡是人民的羞辱。
- 和合本2010(上帝版-繁體) - 公義使邦國高舉; 罪惡是百姓的羞辱。
- 和合本2010(神版-繁體) - 公義使邦國高舉; 罪惡是百姓的羞辱。
- 當代譯本 - 公義能叫邦國興盛, 罪惡是人民的恥辱。
- 聖經新譯本 - 正義使國家興盛, 罪惡是人民的羞辱。
- 呂振中譯本 - 公義使邦國崇高; 罪惡是民族的羞辱 。
- 中文標準譯本 - 公義使國家興起, 罪惡是國民的恥辱。
- 現代標點和合本 - 公義使邦國高舉, 罪惡是人民的羞辱。
- 文理和合譯本 - 公義興國、罪惡辱民、
- 文理委辦譯本 - 仁義則邦以興、否則國以辱。
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 善義使邦興、過惡使國辱、
- Nueva Versión Internacional - La justicia enaltece a una nación, pero el pecado deshonra a todos los pueblos.
- 현대인의 성경 - 의는 나라를 높여도 죄는 백성을 부끄럽게 한다.
- Новый Русский Перевод - Праведность возносит народ, а грех – позор для него.
- Восточный перевод - Праведность возносит народ, а грех – позор для него.
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Праведность возносит народ, а грех – позор для него.
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Праведность возносит народ, а грех – позор для него.
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - La justice grandit une nation, mais le péché est une honte pour tout peuple.
- リビングバイブル - 神を敬うことは国を高め、 罪は民をおとしめます。
- Nova Versão Internacional - A justiça engrandece a nação, mas o pecado é uma vergonha para qualquer povo.
- Hoffnung für alle - Gerechtigkeit macht ein Volk groß, doch Sünde ist für jedes Volk eine Schande.
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Đức công chính làm cho quốc gia được tán tụng, nhưng tội lỗi đem lại sỉ nhục cho toàn dân.
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - ความชอบธรรมเชิดชูชาติ แต่บาปทำให้ชนชาติต่างๆ ถูกพิพากษา
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ความชอบธรรมเชิดชูประชาชาติให้สูงขึ้น แต่บาปเป็นที่น่าอัปยศอดสูแก่บรรดาชนชาติ
交叉引用
- Ezekiel 22:1 - The word of the Lord came to me:
- Ezekiel 22:2 - “As for you, son of man, will you pass judgment? Will you pass judgment against the city of blood? Then explain all her detestable practices to her.
- Ezekiel 22:3 - You are to say, ‘This is what the Lord God says: A city that sheds blood within her walls so that her time of judgment has come and who makes idols for herself so that she is defiled!
- Ezekiel 22:4 - You are guilty of the blood you have shed, and you are defiled from the idols you have made. You have brought your judgment days near and have come to your years of punishment. Therefore, I have made you a disgrace to the nations and a mockery to all the lands.
- Ezekiel 22:5 - Those who are near and those far away from you will mock you, you infamous one full of turmoil.
- Ezekiel 22:6 - “‘Look, every prince of Israel within you has used his strength to shed blood.
- Ezekiel 22:7 - Father and mother are treated with contempt, and the resident alien is exploited within you. The fatherless and widow are oppressed in you.
- Ezekiel 22:8 - You despise my holy things and profane my Sabbaths.
- Ezekiel 22:9 - There are men within you who slander in order to shed blood. People who live in you eat at the mountain shrines; they commit depraved acts within you.
- Ezekiel 22:10 - Men within you have sexual intercourse with their father’s wife and violate women during their menstrual impurity.
- Ezekiel 22:11 - One man within you commits a detestable act with his neighbor’s wife; another defiles his daughter-in-law with depravity; and yet another violates his sister, his father’s daughter.
- Ezekiel 22:12 - People who live in you accept bribes in order to shed blood. You take interest and profit on a loan and brutally extort your neighbors. You have forgotten me. This is the declaration of the Lord God.
- Ezekiel 22:13 - “‘Now look, I clap my hands together against the dishonest profit you have made and against the blood shed among you.
- Ezekiel 22:14 - Will your courage endure or your hands be strong in the days when I deal with you? I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will act.
- Ezekiel 22:15 - I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you among the countries; I will purge your uncleanness.
- Ezekiel 22:16 - You will be profaned in the sight of the nations. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”
- Ezekiel 22:17 - The word of the Lord came to me:
- Ezekiel 22:18 - “Son of man, the house of Israel has become merely dross to me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead inside the furnace; they are just dross from silver.
- Ezekiel 22:19 - Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: Because all of you have become dross, I am about to gather you into Jerusalem.
- Ezekiel 22:20 - Just as one gathers silver, copper, iron, lead, and tin into the furnace to blow fire on them and melt them, so I will gather you in my anger and wrath, put you inside, and melt you.
- Ezekiel 22:21 - Yes, I will gather you together and blow on you with the fire of my fury, and you will be melted within the city.
- Ezekiel 22:22 - As silver is melted inside a furnace, so you will be melted inside the city. Then you will know that I, the Lord, have poured out my wrath on you.”
- Ezekiel 22:23 - The word of the Lord came to me:
- Judges 2:6 - Previously, when Joshua had sent the people away, the Israelites had gone to take possession of the land, each to his own inheritance.
- Judges 2:7 - The people worshiped the Lord throughout Joshua’s lifetime and during the lifetimes of the elders who outlived Joshua. They had seen all the Lord’s great works he had done for Israel.
- Judges 2:8 - Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died at the age of 110.
- Judges 2:9 - They buried him in the territory of his inheritance, in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
- Judges 2:10 - That whole generation was also gathered to their ancestors. After them another generation rose up who did not know the Lord or the works he had done for Israel.
- Judges 2:11 - The Israelites did what was evil in the Lord’s sight. They worshiped the Baals
- Judges 2:12 - and abandoned the Lord, the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of Egypt. They followed other gods from the surrounding peoples and bowed down to them. They angered the Lord,
- Judges 2:13 - for they abandoned him and worshiped Baal and the Ashtoreths.
- Judges 2:14 - The Lord’s anger burned against Israel, and he handed them over to marauders who raided them. He sold them to the enemies around them, and they could no longer resist their enemies.
- Ezekiel 16:1 - The word of the Lord came to me again:
- Ezekiel 16:2 - “Son of man, confront Jerusalem with her detestable practices.
- Ezekiel 16:3 - You are to say, ‘This is what the Lord God says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hethite.
- Ezekiel 16:4 - As for your birth, your umbilical cord wasn’t cut on the day you were born, and you weren’t washed clean with water. You were not rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.
- Ezekiel 16:5 - No one cared enough about you to do even one of these things out of compassion for you. But you were thrown out into the open field because you were despised on the day you were born.
- Ezekiel 16:6 - “‘I passed by you and saw you thrashing around in your blood, and I said to you as you lay in your blood, “Live!” Yes, I said to you as you lay in your blood, “Live!”
- Ezekiel 16:7 - I made you thrive like plants of the field. You grew up and matured and became very beautiful. Your breasts were formed and your hair grew, but you were stark naked.
- Ezekiel 16:8 - “‘Then I passed by you and saw you, and you were indeed at the age for love. So I spread the edge of my garment over you and covered your nakedness. I pledged myself to you, entered into a covenant with you — this is the declaration of the Lord God — and you became mine.
- Ezekiel 16:9 - I washed you with water, rinsed off your blood, and anointed you with oil.
- Ezekiel 16:10 - I clothed you in embroidered cloth and provided you with fine leather sandals. I also wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk.
- Ezekiel 16:11 - I adorned you with jewelry, putting bracelets on your wrists and a necklace around your neck.
- Ezekiel 16:12 - I put a ring in your nose, earrings on your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.
- Ezekiel 16:13 - So you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was made of fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour, honey, and oil. You became extremely beautiful and attained royalty.
- Ezekiel 16:14 - Your fame spread among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through my splendor, which I had bestowed on you. This is the declaration of the Lord God.
- Ezekiel 16:15 - “‘But you trusted in your beauty and acted like a prostitute because of your fame. You lavished your sexual favors on everyone who passed by. Your beauty became his.
- Ezekiel 16:16 - You took some of your clothing and made colorful high places for yourself, and you engaged in prostitution on them. These places should not have been built, and this should never have happened!
- Ezekiel 16:17 - You also took your beautiful jewelry made from the gold and silver I had given you, and you made male images so that you could engage in prostitution with them.
- Ezekiel 16:18 - Then you took your embroidered clothing to cover them and set my oil and incense before them.
- Ezekiel 16:19 - The food that I gave you — the fine flour, oil, and honey that I fed you — you set it before them as a pleasing aroma. That is what happened. This is the declaration of the Lord God.
- Ezekiel 16:20 - “‘You even took your sons and daughters you bore to me and sacrificed them to these images as food. Wasn’t your prostitution enough?
- Ezekiel 16:21 - You slaughtered my children and gave them up when you passed them through the fire to the images.
- Ezekiel 16:22 - In all your detestable practices and acts of prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth when you were stark naked and thrashing around in your blood.
- Ezekiel 16:23 - “‘Then after all your evil — Woe, woe to you! — the declaration of the Lord God —
- Ezekiel 16:24 - you built yourself a mound and made yourself an elevated place in every square.
- Ezekiel 16:25 - You built your elevated place at the head of every street and turned your beauty into a detestable thing. You spread your legs to everyone who passed by and increased your prostitution.
- Ezekiel 16:26 - You engaged in promiscuous acts with Egyptian men, your well-endowed neighbors, and increased your prostitution to anger me.
- Ezekiel 16:27 - “‘Therefore, I stretched out my hand against you and reduced your provisions. I gave you over to the desire of those who hate you, the Philistine women, who were embarrassed by your indecent conduct.
- Ezekiel 16:28 - Then you engaged in prostitution with the Assyrian men because you were not satisfied. Even though you did this with them, you were still not satisfied.
- Ezekiel 16:29 - So you extended your prostitution to Chaldea, the land of merchants, but you were not even satisfied with this!
- Ezekiel 16:30 - “‘How your heart was inflamed with lust — the declaration of the Lord God — when you did all these things, the acts of a brazen prostitute,
- Ezekiel 16:31 - building your mound at the head of every street and making your elevated place in every square. But you were unlike a prostitute because you scorned payment.
- Ezekiel 16:32 - You adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!
- Ezekiel 16:33 - Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you gave gifts to all your lovers. You bribed them to come to you from all around for your sexual favors.
- Ezekiel 16:34 - So you were the opposite of other women in your acts of prostitution; no one solicited you. When you paid a fee instead of one being paid to you, you were the opposite.
- Ezekiel 16:35 - “‘Therefore, you prostitute, hear the word of the Lord!
- Ezekiel 16:36 - This is what the Lord God says: Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness exposed by your acts of prostitution with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols and the blood of your children that you gave to them,
- Ezekiel 16:37 - I am therefore going to gather all the lovers you pleased — all those you loved as well as all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and expose your nakedness to them so they see you completely naked.
- Ezekiel 16:38 - I will judge you the way adulteresses and those who shed blood are judged. Then I will bring about the shedding of your blood in jealous wrath.
- Ezekiel 16:39 - I will hand you over to them, and they will demolish your mounds and tear down your elevated places. They will strip off your clothes, take your beautiful jewelry, and leave you stark naked.
- Ezekiel 16:40 - They will bring a mob against you to stone you and to cut you to pieces with their swords.
- Ezekiel 16:41 - They will burn your houses and execute judgments against you in the sight of many women. I will stop you from being a prostitute, and you will never again pay fees for lovers.
- Ezekiel 16:42 - So I will satisfy my wrath against you, and my jealousy will turn away from you. Then I will be calm and no longer angry.
- Ezekiel 16:43 - Because you did not remember the days of your youth but enraged me with all these things, I will also bring your conduct down on your own head. This is the declaration of the Lord God. Haven’t you committed depravity in addition to all your detestable practices?
- Ezekiel 16:44 - “‘Look, everyone who uses proverbs will quote this proverb about you: “Like mother, like daughter.”
- Ezekiel 16:45 - You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hethite and your father an Amorite.
- Ezekiel 16:46 - Your older sister was Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you, and your younger sister was Sodom, who lived with her daughters to the south of you.
- Ezekiel 16:47 - Didn’t you walk in their ways and do their detestable practices? It was only a short time before all your ways were more corrupt than theirs.
- Ezekiel 16:48 - “‘As I live — the declaration of the Lord God — your sister Sodom and her daughters have not behaved as you and your daughters have.
- Ezekiel 16:49 - Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters had pride, plenty of food, and comfortable security, but didn’t support the poor and needy.
- Ezekiel 16:50 - They were haughty and did detestable acts before me, so I removed them when I saw this.
- Ezekiel 16:51 - But Samaria did not commit even half your sins. You have multiplied your detestable practices beyond theirs and made your sisters appear righteous by all the detestable acts you have committed.
- Ezekiel 16:52 - You must also bear your disgrace, since you have helped your sisters out. For they appear more righteous than you because of your sins, which you committed more detestably than they did. So you also, be ashamed and bear your disgrace, since you have made your sisters appear righteous.
- Ezekiel 16:53 - “‘I will restore their fortunes, the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters and those of Samaria and her daughters. I will also restore your fortunes among them,
- Ezekiel 16:54 - so you will bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you did when you comforted them.
- Ezekiel 16:55 - As for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters and Samaria and her daughters will return to their former state. You and your daughters will also return to your former state.
- Ezekiel 16:56 - Didn’t you treat your sister Sodom as an object of scorn when you were proud,
- Ezekiel 16:57 - before your wickedness was exposed? It was like the time you were scorned by the daughters of Aram and all those around her, and by the daughters of the Philistines — those who treated you with contempt from every side.
- Ezekiel 16:58 - You yourself must bear the consequences of your depravity and detestable practices — this is the Lord’s declaration.
- Ezekiel 16:59 - “‘For this is what the Lord God says: I will deal with you according to what you have done, since you have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.
- Ezekiel 16:60 - But I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish a permanent covenant with you.
- Ezekiel 16:61 - Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your older and younger sisters. I will give them to you as daughters, but not because of your covenant.
- Ezekiel 16:62 - I will establish my covenant with you, and you will know that I am the Lord,
- Ezekiel 16:63 - so that when I make atonement for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed, and never open your mouth again because of your disgrace. This is the declaration of the Lord God.’”
- Jeremiah 2:2 - “Go and announce directly to Jerusalem that this is what the Lord says: I remember the loyalty of your youth, your love as a bride — how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
- Jeremiah 2:3 - Israel was holy to the Lord, the firstfruits of his harvest. All who ate of it found themselves guilty; disaster came on them.” This is the Lord’s declaration.
- Jeremiah 2:4 - Hear the word of the Lord, house of Jacob and all families of the house of Israel.
- Jeremiah 2:5 - This is what the Lord says: What fault did your ancestors find in me that they went so far from me, followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves?
- Jeremiah 2:6 - They stopped asking, “Where is the Lord who brought us from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and ravines, through a land of drought and darkness, a land no one traveled through and where no one lived?”
- Jeremiah 2:7 - I brought you to a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty, but after you entered, you defiled my land; you made my inheritance detestable.
- Jeremiah 2:8 - The priests quit asking, “Where is the Lord?” The experts in the law no longer knew me, and the rulers rebelled against me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and followed useless idols.
- Jeremiah 2:9 - Therefore, I will bring a case against you again. This is the Lord’s declaration. I will bring a case against your children’s children.
- Jeremiah 2:10 - Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus and take a look. Send someone to Kedar and consider carefully; see if there has ever been anything like this:
- Jeremiah 2:11 - Has a nation ever exchanged its gods? (But they were not gods! ) Yet my people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.
- Jeremiah 2:12 - Be appalled at this, heavens; be shocked and utterly desolated! This is the Lord’s declaration.
- Jeremiah 2:13 - For my people have committed a double evil: They have abandoned me, the fountain of living water, and dug cisterns for themselves — cracked cisterns that cannot hold water.
- Jeremiah 2:14 - Is Israel a slave? Was he born into slavery? Why else has he become a prey?
- Jeremiah 2:15 - The young lions have roared at him; they have roared loudly. They have laid waste his land. His cities are in ruins, without inhabitants.
- Jeremiah 2:16 - The men of Memphis and Tahpanhes have also broken your skull.
- Jeremiah 2:17 - Have you not brought this on yourself by abandoning the Lord your God while he was leading you along the way?
- Jeremiah 2:18 - Now what will you gain by traveling along the way to Egypt to drink the water of the Nile? What will you gain by traveling along the way to Assyria to drink the water of the Euphrates?
- Jeremiah 2:19 - Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Recognize how evil and bitter it is for you to abandon the Lord your God and to have no fear of me. This is the declaration of the Lord God of Armies.
- Jeremiah 2:20 - For long ago I broke your yoke; I tore off your chains. You insisted, “I will not serve!” On every high hill and under every green tree you lay down like a prostitute.
- Jeremiah 2:21 - I planted you, a choice vine from the very best seed. How then could you turn into a degenerate, foreign vine?
- Jeremiah 2:22 - Even if you wash with lye and use a great amount of bleach, the stain of your iniquity is still in front of me. This is the Lord God’s declaration.
- Jeremiah 2:23 - How can you protest, “I am not defiled; I have not followed the Baals”? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young camel twisting and turning on her way,
- Jeremiah 2:24 - a wild donkey at home in the wilderness. She sniffs the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can control her passion? All who look for her will not become weary; they will find her in her mating season.
- Jeremiah 2:25 - Keep your feet from going bare and your throat from thirst. But you say, “It’s hopeless; I love strangers, and I will continue to follow them.”
- Hosea 13:1 - When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel. But he incurred guilt through Baal and died.
- Deuteronomy 4:6 - Carefully follow them, for this will show your wisdom and understanding in the eyes of the peoples. When they hear about all these statutes, they will say, ‘This great nation is indeed a wise and understanding people.’
- Deuteronomy 4:7 - For what great nation is there that has a god near to it as the Lord our God is to us whenever we call to him?
- Deuteronomy 4:8 - And what great nation has righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?
- Deuteronomy 29:18 - Be sure there is no man, woman, clan, or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the Lord our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Be sure there is no root among you bearing poisonous and bitter fruit.
- Deuteronomy 29:19 - When someone hears the words of this oath, he may consider himself exempt, thinking, ‘I will have peace even though I follow my own stubborn heart.’ This will lead to the destruction of the well-watered land as well as the dry land.
- Deuteronomy 29:20 - The Lord will not be willing to forgive him. Instead, his anger and jealousy will burn against that person, and every curse written in this scroll will descend on him. The Lord will blot out his name under heaven,
- Deuteronomy 29:21 - and single him out for harm from all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law.
- Deuteronomy 29:22 - “Future generations of your children who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant country will see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses the Lord has inflicted on it.
- Deuteronomy 29:23 - All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown, producing nothing, with no plant growing on it, just like the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord demolished in his fierce anger.
- Deuteronomy 29:24 - All the nations will ask, ‘Why has the Lord done this to this land? Why this intense outburst of anger?’
- Deuteronomy 29:25 - Then people will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he had made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 29:26 - They began to serve other gods, bowing in worship to gods they had not known — gods that the Lord had not permitted them to worship.
- Deuteronomy 29:27 - Therefore the Lord’s anger burned against this land, and he brought every curse written in this book on it.
- Deuteronomy 29:28 - The Lord uprooted them from their land in his anger, rage, and intense wrath, and threw them into another land where they are today.’
- Deuteronomy 28:1 - “Now if you faithfully obey the Lord your God and are careful to follow all his commands I am giving you today, the Lord your God will put you far above all the nations of the earth.
- Deuteronomy 28:2 - All these blessings will come and overtake you, because you obey the Lord your God:
- Deuteronomy 28:3 - You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.
- Deuteronomy 28:4 - Your offspring will be blessed, and your land’s produce, and the offspring of your livestock, including the young of your herds and the newborn of your flocks.
- Deuteronomy 28:5 - Your basket and kneading bowl will be blessed.
- Deuteronomy 28:6 - You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.
- Deuteronomy 28:7 - “The Lord will cause the enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you. They will march out against you from one direction but flee from you in seven directions.
- Deuteronomy 28:8 - The Lord will grant you a blessing on your barns and on everything you do; he will bless you in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
- Deuteronomy 28:9 - The Lord will establish you as his holy people, as he swore to you, if you obey the commands of the Lord your God and walk in his ways.
- Deuteronomy 28:10 - Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you bear the Lord’s name, and they will stand in awe of you.
- Deuteronomy 28:11 - The Lord will make you prosper abundantly with offspring, the offspring of your livestock, and your land’s produce in the land the Lord swore to your ancestors to give you.
- Deuteronomy 28:12 - The Lord will open for you his abundant storehouse, the sky, to give your land rain in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.
- Deuteronomy 28:13 - The Lord will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward if you listen to the Lord your God’s commands I am giving you today and are careful to follow them.
- Deuteronomy 28:14 - Do not turn aside to the right or the left from all the things I am commanding you today, and do not follow other gods to worship them.
- Deuteronomy 28:15 - “But if you do not obey the Lord your God by carefully following all his commands and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come and overtake you:
- Deuteronomy 28:16 - You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.
- Deuteronomy 28:17 - Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed.
- Deuteronomy 28:18 - Your offspring will be cursed, and your land’s produce, the young of your herds, and the newborn of your flocks.
- Deuteronomy 28:19 - You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.
- Deuteronomy 28:20 - The Lord will send against you curses, confusion, and rebuke in everything you do until you are destroyed and quickly perish, because of the wickedness of your actions in abandoning me.
- Deuteronomy 28:21 - The Lord will make pestilence cling to you until he has exterminated you from the land you are entering to possess.
- Deuteronomy 28:22 - The Lord will afflict you with wasting disease, fever, inflammation, burning heat, drought, blight, and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.
- Deuteronomy 28:23 - The sky above you will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.
- Deuteronomy 28:24 - The Lord will turn the rain of your land into falling dust; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.
- Deuteronomy 28:25 - The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
- Deuteronomy 28:26 - Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the earth, with no one to scare them away.
- Deuteronomy 28:27 - “The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, tumors, a festering rash, and scabies, from which you cannot be cured.
- Deuteronomy 28:28 - The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness, and mental confusion,
- Deuteronomy 28:29 - so that at noon you will grope as a blind person gropes in the dark. You will not be successful in anything you do. You will only be oppressed and robbed continually, and no one will help you.
- Deuteronomy 28:30 - You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not enjoy 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 taken away from you and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will help you.
- Deuteronomy 28:32 - Your sons and daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes grow weary looking for them every day. But you will be powerless to do anything.
- Deuteronomy 28:33 - A people you don’t know will eat your land’s produce and everything you have labored for. You will only be oppressed and crushed continually.
- Deuteronomy 28:34 - You will be driven mad by what you see.
- Deuteronomy 28:35 - The Lord will afflict you with painful and incurable boils on your knees and thighs — from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.
- Deuteronomy 28:36 - “The Lord will bring you and your king that you have appointed to a nation neither you nor your ancestors have known, and there you will worship other gods, of wood and stone.
- Deuteronomy 28:37 - You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the peoples where the Lord will drive you.
- Deuteronomy 28:38 - “You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because locusts will devour it.
- Deuteronomy 28:39 - You will plant and cultivate vineyards but not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.
- Deuteronomy 28:40 - You will have olive trees throughout your territory but not moisten your skin with oil, because your olives will drop off.
- Deuteronomy 28:41 - You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will be taken prisoner.
- Deuteronomy 28:42 - Buzzing insects will take possession of all your trees and your land’s produce.
- Deuteronomy 28:43 - The resident alien among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink lower and lower.
- Deuteronomy 28:44 - He will lend to you, but you won’t lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.
- Deuteronomy 28:45 - “All these curses will come, pursue, and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the Lord your God and keep the commands and statutes he gave you.
- Deuteronomy 28:46 - These curses will be a sign and a wonder against you and your descendants forever.
- Deuteronomy 28:47 - Because you didn’t serve the Lord your God with joy and a cheerful heart, even though you had an abundance of everything,
- Deuteronomy 28:48 - you will serve your enemies that the Lord will send against you, in famine, thirst, nakedness, and a lack of everything. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.
- Deuteronomy 28:49 - The Lord will bring a nation from far away, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down on you like an eagle, a nation whose language you won’t understand,
- Deuteronomy 28:50 - a ruthless nation, showing no respect for the old and not sparing the young.
- Deuteronomy 28:51 - They will eat the offspring of your livestock and your land’s produce until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine, fresh oil, young of your herds, or newborn of your flocks until they cause you to perish.
- Deuteronomy 28:52 - They will besiege you within all your city gates until your high and fortified walls, that you trust in, come down throughout your land. They will besiege you within all your city gates throughout the land the Lord your God has given you.
- Deuteronomy 28:53 - “You will eat your offspring, the flesh of your sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you.
- Deuteronomy 28:54 - The most sensitive and refined man among you will look grudgingly at his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children,
- Deuteronomy 28:55 - refusing to share with any of them his children’s flesh that he will eat because he has nothing left during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you in all your towns.
- Deuteronomy 28:56 - The most sensitive and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her refinement and sensitivity, will begrudge the husband she embraces, her son, and her daughter,
- Deuteronomy 28:57 - the afterbirth that comes out from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you within your city gates.
- Deuteronomy 28:58 - “If you are not careful to obey all the words of this law, which are written in this scroll, by fearing this glorious and awe-inspiring name — the Lord, your God —
- Deuteronomy 28:59 - he will bring wondrous plagues on you and your descendants, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.
- Deuteronomy 28:60 - He will afflict you again with all the diseases of Egypt, which you dreaded, and they will cling to you.
- Deuteronomy 28:61 - The Lord will also afflict you with every sickness and plague not recorded in the book of this law, until you are destroyed.
- Deuteronomy 28:62 - Though you were as numerous as the stars of the sky, you will be left with only a few people, because you did not obey the Lord your God.
- Deuteronomy 28:63 - Just as the Lord was glad to cause you to prosper and to multiply you, so he will also be glad to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You will be ripped out of the land you are entering to possess.
- Deuteronomy 28:64 - Then the Lord will scatter you among all peoples from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.
- Deuteronomy 28:65 - You will find no peace among those nations, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despondent spirit.
- Deuteronomy 28:66 - Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be in dread night and day, never certain of survival.
- Deuteronomy 28:67 - In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’ — because of the dread you will have in your heart and because of what you will see.
- Deuteronomy 28:68 - The Lord will take you back in ships to Egypt by a route that I said you would never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”
- Psalms 107:34 - and fruitful land into salty wasteland, because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.