Deuteronomy 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.

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WEBBE

The LORD 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.

BSB

The LORD will send curses upon you, confusion and reproof in all to which you put your hand, until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the wickedness you have committed in forsaking Him.

KJV

The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.

ASV

Jehovah will send upon thee cursing, discomfiture, and rebuke, in all that thou puttest thy hand unto to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the evil of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.

BBE

The Lord will send on you cursing and trouble and punishment in everything to which you put your hand, till sudden destruction overtakes you; because of your evil ways in which you have been false to me.

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יְשַׁלַּח ye·sha·lach he will send H7971 יְהוָה yah·weh Yahweh H3068 בְּךָ be·kha on (the) you H9031 אֶת־ 'et- (marks the object) H853 הַמְּאֵרָה ha·me·'e·rah the curse H3994 אֶת־ 'et- (marks the object) H853 הַמְּהוּמָה ha·me·hu·mah (the) confusion H4103 וְאֶת־ ve·'et and (marks the object) H853 הַמִּגְעֶרֶת ha·mig·'e·ret (the) rebuke H4045 בְּכָל־ be·khol in every H3605 מִשְׁלַח mish·lach (the) undertaking of H4916 יָדְךָ ya·de·kha hand your H3027 אֲשֶׁר 'a·sher which H834 תַּעֲשֶׂה ta·'a·seh you will do H6213 עַד 'ad until H5704 הִשָּׁמֶדְךָ hi·sha·med·kha being destroyed you H8045 וְעַד־ ve·'ad- and until H5704 אֲבָדְךָ 'a·va·de·kha perishing you H6 מַהֵר ma·her quickly H4118 מִפְּנֵי mi·pe·nei (from) because of H6440 רֹעַ ro·a' [the] wickedness of H7455 מַעֲלָלֶיךָ ma·'a·la·lei·kha deeds your H4611 אֲשֶׁר 'a·sher which H834 עֲזַבְתָּנִי 'a·zav·ta·ni you have forsaken me H5800

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 15–44

If we do not keep God's commandments, we not only come short of the blessing promised, but we lay ourselves under the curse, which includes all misery, as the blessing all happiness. Observe the justice of this curse. It is not a curse causeless, or for some light cause. The extent and power of this curse. Wherever the sinner goes, the curse of God follows; wherever he is, it rests upon him. Whatever he has is under a curse. All his enjoyments are made bitter; he cannot take any true comfort in them, for the wrath of God mixes itself with them. Many judgments are here stated, which would be the fruits of the curse, and with which God would punish the people of the Jews, for their apostacy and disobedience. We may observe the fulfilling of these threatenings in their present state. To complete their misery, it is threatened that by these troubles they should be bereaved of all comfort and hope, and left to utter despair. Those who walk by sight, and not by faith, are in danger of losing reason itself, when every thing about them looks frightful.

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