Deuteronomy 28:33

A nation which you don’t know will eat the fruit of your ground and all of your work. You will only be oppressed and crushed always;

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WEBBE

A nation which you don’t know will eat the fruit of your ground and all of your work. You will only be oppressed and crushed always,

BSB

A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.

KJV

The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:

ASV

The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labors, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway;

BBE

The fruit of your land and all the work of your hands will be food for a nation which is strange to you and to your fathers; you will only be crushed down and kept under for ever:

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פְּרִי pe·ri [the] fruit of H6529 אַדְמָתְךָ 'ad·ma·te·kha ground your H127 וְכָל־ ve·khol and all H3605 יְגִיעֲךָ ye·gi·'a·kha [the] result of toil your H3018 יֹאכַל yo·khal it will eat H398 עַם 'am a people H5971 אֲשֶׁר 'a·sher which H834 לֹא־ lo'- not H3808 יָדָעְתָּ ya·da·'e·ta you have known H3045 וְהָיִיתָ ve·ha·yi·ta and you will be H1961 רַק rak only H7535 עָשׁוּק 'a·shuk oppressed H6231 וְרָצוּץ ve·ra·tzutz and crushed H7533 כָּל־ kol- all H3605 הַיָּמִים hai·ya·mim the days H3117

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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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.