[1] "And if you obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do
all his commandments which I command you this day, the LORD your God will
set you high above all the nations of the earth. [2] And all these
blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of
the LORD your God. [3] Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall
you be in the field. [4] Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, and the
fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your beasts, the increase of your
cattle, and the young of your flock. [5] Blessed shall be your basket and
your kneading-trough. [6] Blessed shall you be when you come in, and
blessed shall you be when you go out. [7] "The LORD will cause your enemies
who rise against you to be defeated before you; they shall come out against
you one way, and flee before you seven ways. [8] The LORD will command the
blessing upon you in your barns, and in all that you undertake; and he will
bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you. [9] The LORD will
establish you as a people holy to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you
keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and walk in his ways. [10] And
all the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of
the LORD; and they shall be afraid of you. [11] And the LORD will make you
abound in prosperity, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your
cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, within the land which the LORD
swore to your fathers to give you. [12] The LORD will open to you his good
treasury the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season and to
bless all the work of your hands; and you shall lend to many nations, but
you shall not borrow. [13] And the LORD will make you the head, and not the
tail; and you shall tend upward only, and not downward; if you obey the
commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day, being
careful to do them, [14] and if you do not turn aside from any of the words
which I command you this day, to the right hand or to the left, to go after
other gods to serve them. [15] "But if you will not obey the voice of the
LORD your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes
which I command you this day, then all these curses shall come upon you and
overtake you. [16] Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be
in the field. [17] Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough.
[18] Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground,
the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock. [19] Cursed shall
you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out. [20] "The
LORD will send upon you curses, confusion, and frustration, in all that you
undertake to do, until you are destroyed and perish quickly, on account of
the evil of your doings, because you have forsaken me. [21] The LORD will
make the pestilence cleave to you until he has consumed you off the land
which you are entering to take possession of it. [22] The LORD will smite
you with consumption, and with fever, inflammation, and fiery heat, and
with drought, and with blasting, and with mildew; they shall pursue you
until you perish. [23] And the heavens over your head shall be brass, and
the earth under you shall be iron. [24] The LORD will make the rain of your
land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come down upon you until you are
destroyed. [25] "The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your
enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before
them; and you shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. [26] And
your dead body shall be food for all birds of the air, and for the beasts
of the earth; and there shall be no one to frighten them away. [27] The
LORD will smite you with the boils of Egypt, and with the ulcers and the
scurvy and the itch, of which you cannot be healed. [28] The LORD will
smite you with madness and blindness and confusion of mind; [29] and you
shall grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not
prosper in your ways; and you shall be only oppressed and robbed
continually, and there shall be no one to help you. [30] You shall betroth
a wife, and another man shall lie with her; you shall build a house, and
you shall not dwell in it; you shall plant a vineyard, and you shall not
use the fruit of it. [31] Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you
shall not eat of it; your ass shall be violently taken away before your
face, and shall not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your
enemies, and there shall be no one to help you. [32] Your sons and your
daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and
fail with longing for them all the day; and it shall not be in the power of
your hand to prevent it. [33] A nation which you have not known shall eat
up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors; and you shall be only
oppressed and crushed continually; [34] so that you shall be driven mad by
the sight which your eyes shall see. [35] The LORD will smite you on the
knees and on the legs with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed,
from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head. [36] "The LORD will
bring you, and your king whom you set over you, to a nation that neither
you nor your fathers have known; and there you shall serve other gods, of
wood and stone. [37] And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a
byword, among all the peoples where the LORD will lead you away. [38] You
shall carry much seed into the field, and shall gather little in; for the
locust shall consume it. [39] You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but
you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes; for the worm
shall eat them. [40] You shall have olive trees throughout all your
territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives
shall drop off. [41] You shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not
be yours; for they shall go into captivity. [42] All your trees and the
fruit of your ground the locust shall possess. [43] The sojourner who is
among you shall mount above you higher and higher; and you shall come down
lower and lower. [44] He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him;
he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail. [45] All these curses
shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you, till you are
destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep
his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you. [46] They shall
be upon you as a sign and a wonder, and upon your descendants for ever.
[47] "Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joyfulness and
gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things, [48] therefore
you shall serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger
and thirst, in nakedness, and in want of all things; and he will put a yoke
of iron upon your neck, until he has destroyed you. [49] The LORD will
bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift
as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you do not understand, [50] a
nation of stern countenance, who shall not regard the person of the old or
show favor to the young, [51] and shall eat the offspring of your cattle
and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; who also shall not
leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your cattle or the young of
your flock, until they have caused you to perish. [52] They shall besiege
you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you
trusted, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you in
all your towns throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given
you. [53] And you shall eat the offspring of your own body, the flesh of
your sons and daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege
and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you. [54] The
man who is the most tender and delicately bred among you will grudge food
to his brother, to the wife of his bosom, and to the last of the children
who remain to him; [55] so that he will not give to any of them any of the
flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing left him,
in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you
in all your towns. [56] The most tender and delicately bred woman among
you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot upon the ground
because she is so delicate and tender, will grudge to the husband of her
bosom, to her son and to her daughter, [57] her afterbirth that comes out
from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because she will eat
them secretly, for want of all things, in the siege and in the distress
with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns. [58] "If you are
not careful to do all the words of this law which are written in this book,
that you may fear this glorious and awful name, the LORD your God, [59]
then the LORD will bring on you and your offspring extraordinary
afflictions, afflictions severe and lasting, and sicknesses grievous and
lasting. [60] And he will bring upon you again all the diseases of Egypt,
which you were afraid of; and they shall cleave to you. [61] Every sickness
also, and every affliction which is not recorded in the book of this law,
the LORD will bring upon you, until you are destroyed. [62] Whereas you
were as the stars of heaven for multitude, you shall be left few in number;
because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God. [63] And as the
LORD took delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the LORD will
take delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you; and you shall be
plucked off the land which you are entering to take possession of it. [64]
And the LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth
to the other; and there you shall serve other gods, of wood and stone,
which neither you nor your fathers have known. [65] And among these nations
you shall find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of your
foot; but the LORD will give you there a trembling heart, and failing eyes,
and a languishing soul; [66] your life shall hang in doubt before you;
night and day you shall be in dread, and have no assurance of your life.
[67] In the morning you shall say, `Would it were evening!' and at evening
you shall say, `Would it were morning!' because of the dread which your
heart shall fear, and the sights which your eyes shall see. [68] And the
LORD will bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey which I promised that
you should never make again; and there you shall offer yourselves for sale
to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no man will buy you."

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