| Topic: |
Religions > Bible |
| User: |
"World English Bible Editors" |
| Date: |
28 Jun 2005 02:07:54 AM |
| Object: |
Deut 28, World English Bible |
Deuteronomy, starting at chapter 28
{28:1} It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the voice
of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments which I
command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you on high above
all the nations of the earth: {28:2} and all these blessings shall
come on you, and overtake you, if you shall listen to the voice of
Yahweh your God. {28:3} You shall be blessed in the city, and you
shall be blessed in the field. {28:4} You shall be blessed in the
fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your
animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.
{28:5} Your basket and your kneading trough shall be blessed. {28:6}
You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed when
you go out. {28:7} Yahweh will cause your enemies who rise up against
you to be struck before you. They will come out against you one way,
and will flee before you seven ways. {28:8} Yahweh will command the
blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to;
and he will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
{28:9} Yahweh will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he
has sworn to you; if you shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your
God, and walk in his ways. {28:10} All the peoples of the earth shall
see that you are called by the name of Yahweh; and they shall be
afraid of you. {28:11} Yahweh will make you plenteous for good, in the
fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the
fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers
to give you. {28:12} Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the
sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the
work of your hand: and you shall lend to many nations, and you shall
not borrow. {28:13} Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail;
and you shall be above only, and you shall not be beneath; if you
shall listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command
you this day, to observe and to do [them], {28:14} and shall 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. {28:15}
But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of
Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his
statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses shall
come on you, and overtake you. {28:16} You shall be cursed in the
city, and you shall be cursed in the field. {28:17} Your basket and
your kneading trough shall be cursed. {28:18} The fruit of your body,
the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the
young of your flock shall be cursed. {28:19} You shall be cursed when
you come in, and you shall be cursed when you go out. {28:20} Yahweh
will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you put
your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish
quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you have
forsaken me. {28:21} Yahweh will make the pestilence cling to you,
until he has consumed you from off the land, where you go in to
possess it. {28:22} Yahweh will strike you with consumption, and with
fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword,
and with blight, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you
perish. {28:23} Your sky that is over your head shall be brass, and
the earth that is under you shall be iron. {28:24} Yahweh will make
the rain of your land powder and dust: from the sky shall it come down
on you, until you are destroyed. {28:25} Yahweh will cause you to be
struck before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and
shall flee seven ways before them: and you shall be tossed back and
forth among all the kingdoms of the earth. {28:26} Your dead body
shall be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the
earth; and there shall be none to frighten them away. {28:27} Yahweh
will strike you with the boil of Egypt, and with the tumors, and with
the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed. {28:28}
Yahweh will strike you with madness, and with blindness, and with
astonishment of heart; {28:29} and you shall grope at noonday, as the
blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and
you shall be only oppressed and robbed always, and there shall be none
to save you. {28:30} You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall
lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell
therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use its fruit.
{28:31} Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat
of it: your donkey shall be violently taken away from before your
face, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given to
your enemies, and you shall have none to save you. {28:32} Your sons
and your daughters shall be given to another people; and your eyes
shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day: and there
shall be nothing in the power of your hand. {28:33} The fruit of your
ground, and all your labors, shall a nation which you don't know eat
up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always; {28:34} so
that you shall be mad for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.
{28:35} Yahweh will strike you in the knees, and in the legs, with a
sore boil, of which you can not be healed, from the sole of your foot
to the crown of your head. {28:36} Yahweh will bring you, and your
king whom you shall set over you, to a nation that you have not known,
you nor your fathers; and there you shall serve other gods, wood and
stone. {28:37} You shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a
byword, among all the peoples where Yahweh shall lead you away.
{28:38} You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather
little in; for the locust shall consume it. {28:39} 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. {28:40} You shall
have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you shall not anoint
yourself with the oil; for your olive shall cast [its fruit]. {28:41}
You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for
they shall go into captivity. {28:42} All your trees and the fruit of
your ground shall the locust possess. {28:43} The foreigner who is in
the midst of you shall mount up above you higher and higher; and you
shall come down lower and lower. {28:44} He shall lend to you, and you
shall not lend to him: he shall be the head, and you shall be the
tail. {28:45} All these curses shall come on you, and shall pursue
you, and overtake you, until you are destroyed; because you didn't
listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his commandments and
his statutes which he commanded you: {28:46} and they shall be on you
for a sign and for a wonder, and on your seed forever. {28:47} Because
you didn't serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of
heart, by reason of the abundance of all things; {28:48} therefore you
shall serve your enemies whom Yahweh shall send against you, in
hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things:
and he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he has destroyed
you. {28:49} Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the
end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you
shall not understand; {28:50} a nation of fierce facial expressions,
that shall not respect the person of the old, nor show favor to the
young, {28:51} and shall eat the fruit of your livestock, and the
fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; that also shall not
leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your livestock, or
the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish. {28:52}
They shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and
fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your
land; and they shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your
land, which Yahweh your God has given you. {28:53} You shall eat the
fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters,
whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress
with which your enemies shall distress you. {28:54} The man who is
tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his
brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of
his children whom he has remaining; {28:55} so that he will not give
to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because
he has nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress with which
your enemy shall distress you in all your gates. {28:56} The tender
and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole
of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye
shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and
toward her daughter, {28:57} and toward her young one who comes out
from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear;
for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege
and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your
gates. {28:58} If you will not observe to do all the words of this law
that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and
fearful name, YAHWEH YOUR GOD; {28:59} then Yahweh will make your
plagues wonderful, and the plagues of your seed, even great plagues,
and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
{28:60} He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which
you were afraid of; and they shall cling to you. {28:61} Also every
sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this
law, Yahweh will bring them on you, until you are destroyed. {28:62}
You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of the
sky for multitude; because you didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh
your God. {28:63} It shall happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to
do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to
cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and you shall be plucked from
off the land where you go in to possess it. {28:64} Yahweh will
scatter you among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even to
the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods,
which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.
{28:65} Among these nations you shall find no ease, and there shall be
no rest for the sole of your foot: but Yahweh will give you there a
trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul; {28:66} and
your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear night and
day, and shall have no assurance of your life. {28:67} In the morning
you shall say, "I wish it were evening!" and at evening you shall say,
"I wish it were morning!" for the fear of your heart which you shall
fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see. {28:68}
Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which
I said to you, You shall see it no more again: and there you shall
sell yourselves to your enemies for bondservants and for bondmaids,
and no man shall buy you.
{29:1} These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded
Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides
the covenant which he made with them in Horeb. {29:2} Moses called to
all Israel, and said to them, You have seen all that Yahweh did before
your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants,
and to all his land; {29:3} the great trials which your eyes saw, the
signs, and those great wonders: {29:4} but Yahweh has not given you a
heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day. {29:5}
I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not
grown old on you, and your shoes have not grown old on your feet.
{29:6} You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong
drink; that you may know that I am Yahweh your God. {29:7} When you
came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of
Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we struck them: {29:8} and
we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites,
and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites. {29:9}
Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may
prosper in all that you do. {29:10} You stand this day all of you
before Yahweh your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your
officers, even all the men of Israel, {29:11} your little ones, your
wives, and your foreigner who is in the midst of your camps, from the
one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water; {29:12} that
you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath,
which Yahweh your God makes with you this day; {29:13} that he may
establish you this day to himself for a people, and that he may be to
you a God, as he spoke to you, and as he swore to your fathers, to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. {29:14} Neither with you only do I
make this covenant and this oath, {29:15} but with him who stands here
with us this day before Yahweh our God, and also with him who is not
here with us this day {29:16} (for you know how we lived in the land
of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through
which you passed; {29:17} and you have seen their abominations, and
their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);
{29:18} lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or
tribe, whose heart turns away this day from Yahweh our God, to go to
serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root
that bears gall and wormwood; {29:19} and it happen, when he hears the
words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, "I
shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to
destroy the moist with the dry." {29:20} Yahweh will not pardon him,
but then the anger of Yahweh and his jealousy will smoke against that
man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie on him,
and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky. {29:21} Yahweh
will set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according
to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the
law.
{29:22} The generation to come, your children who shall rise up
after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall
say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with
which Yahweh has made it sick; {29:23} [and that] the whole land of it
is sulfur, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor
bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and
Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and
in his wrath: {29:24} even all the nations shall say, "Why has Yahweh
done thus to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?"
{29:25} Then men shall say, "Because they forsook the covenant of
Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he
brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, {29:26} and went and
served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that they didn't know, and
that he had not given to them: {29:27} therefore the anger of Yahweh
was kindled against this land, to bring on it all the curse that is
written in this book; {29:28} and Yahweh rooted them out of their land
in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into
another land, as at this day."
{29:29} The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things
that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we
may do all the words of this law.
{30:1} It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the
blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall
call them to mind among all the nations, where Yahweh your God has
driven you, {30:2} and shall return to Yahweh your God, and shall obey
his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your
children, with all your heart, and with all your soul; {30:3} that
then Yahweh your God will turn your captivity, and have compassion on
you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples, where Yahweh
your God has scattered you. {30:4} If [any of] your outcasts are in
the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there will Yahweh your God
gather you, and from there he will bring you back: {30:5} and Yahweh
your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed,
and you shall possess it; and he will do you good, and multiply you
above your fathers. {30:6} Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart,
and the heart of your seed, to love Yahweh your God with all your
heart, and with all your soul, that you may live. {30:7} Yahweh your
God will put all these curses on your enemies, and on those who hate
you, who persecuted you. {30:8} You shall return and obey the voice of
Yahweh, and do all his commandments which I command you this day.
{30:9} Yahweh your God will make you plenteous in all the work of your
hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your livestock,
and in the fruit of your ground, for good: for Yahweh will again
rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers; {30:10}
if you shall obey the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his
commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the
law; if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all
your soul.
{30:11} For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not
too hard for you, neither is it far off. {30:12} It is not in heaven,
that you should say, "Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it
to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?" {30:13} Neither is
it beyond the sea, that you should say, "Who shall go over the sea for
us, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?"
{30:14} But the word is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your
heart, that you may do it. {30:15} Behold, I have set before you this
day life and good, and death and evil; {30:16} in that I command you
this day to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his
commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, that you may live
and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where
you go in to possess it. {30:17} But if your heart turns away, and you
will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and
serve them; {30:18} I denounce to you this day, that you shall surely
perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land, where you pass
over the Jordan to go in to possess it. {30:19} I call heaven and
earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life
and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you
may live, you and your seed; {30:20} to love Yahweh your God, to obey
his voice, and to cleave to him; for he is your life, and the length
of your days; that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to
your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
________________________________________________________________________
The World English Bible is dedicated to the Public Domain by the
translators and editors. It is not copyrighted. "World English Bible"
and the World English Bible logo are a trademarks of Rainbow Missions,
Inc. They may only be used to identify this translation of the Holy
Bible as published by Rainbow Missions, Inc., and faithful copies and
quotations. "Faithful copies" include copies converted to other formats
(i. e. HTML, PDF, etc.) or typeset differently, without altering the
text of the Scriptures. Use of the markings of direct quotes of Jesus
Christ for different rendition (i. e. red text) is optional. Comments
and typo reports are welcome at http://eBible.org/cgi-bin/comment.cgi.
Please see http://WEBible.org/ for updates, revision status, free
downloads, and printed edition purchase information.
.
|
|
|
Related Articles |
Deut 1, World English Bible
Deut 4, World English Bible
Deut 7, World English Bible
Deut 10, World English Bible
Deut 13, World English Bible
Deut 16, World English Bible
Deut 19, World English Bible
Deut 22, World English Bible
| Deut 25, World English Bible
Deut 28, World English Bible
Deut 31, World English Bible
Deut 34, World English Bible
Deut 4, World English Bible
Deut 7, World English Bible
Deut 10, World English Bible
|
|
|
