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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Deuteronomy 28 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/deuteronomy/28.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/deuteronomy/28-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > Deuteronomy 28</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../deuteronomy/27.htm" title="Deuteronomy 27">◄</a> Deuteronomy 28 <a href="../deuteronomy/29.htm" title="Deuteronomy 29">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/deuteronomy/28.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Blessings for Obedience</p><p class="introduction"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>If you fully obey the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God:</p> <div class=setapart><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.</p></div> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The <span class="name">Lord</span> your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> will establish you as his holy people, as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God and walk in obedience to him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the name of the <span class="name">Lord</span>, and they will fear you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> will grant you abundant prosperity—in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground—in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Do not turn aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left, following other gods and serving them.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Curses for Disobedience</p><p class="introduction"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>However, if you do not obey the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you:</p> <div class=setapart><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.</p></div> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> 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. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew me">a</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Your carcasses will be food for all the birds and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>At midday you will grope about like a blind person 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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>The sights you see will drive you mad. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> 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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> will drive you and the king you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your ancestors. There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>You will become a thing of horror, a byword and an object of ridicule among all the peoples where the <span class="name">Lord</span> will drive you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>Swarms of locusts will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, but you will be the tail.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>All these curses will come on you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>Because you did not serve the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span>therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the <span class="name">Lord</span> sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> 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, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span>a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old or pity for the young. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-51.htm"><b>51</b></a></span>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 olive oil, nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-52.htm"><b>52</b></a></span>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 <span class="name">Lord</span> your God is giving you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-53.htm"><b>53</b></a></span>Because of the suffering 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 <span class="name">Lord</span> your God has given you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-54.htm"><b>54</b></a></span>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, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-55.htm"><b>55</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-56.htm"><b>56</b></a></span>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 <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-57.htm"><b>57</b></a></span>the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For in her dire need she intends to eat them secretly because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of your cities.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-58.htm"><b>58</b></a></span>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 <span class="name">Lord</span> your God— <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-59.htm"><b>59</b></a></span>the <span class="name">Lord</span> will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-60.htm"><b>60</b></a></span>He will bring on you all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will cling to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-61.htm"><b>61</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-62.htm"><b>62</b></a></span>You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-63.htm"><b>63</b></a></span>Just as it pleased the <span class="name">Lord</span> 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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-64.htm"><b>64</b></a></span>Then the <span class="name">Lord</span> 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 ancestors have known. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-65.htm"><b>65</b></a></span>Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the <span class="name">Lord</span> will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-66.htm"><b>66</b></a></span>You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-67.htm"><b>67</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/28-68.htm"><b>68</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> 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.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">20</span> <span class="footnotebot">Hebrew <i>me</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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