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Deuteronomy 28 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

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Blessings at Gerizim

(Lev 26:1–13; Deu 7:12–24 )
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:1 - 'And it hath been, if thou dost hearken diligently to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all His commands which I am commanding thee to-day, that Jehovah thy God hath made thee uppermost above all the nations of the earth,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:2 - and all these blessings have come upon thee, and overtaken thee, because thou dost hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God:
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:3 - 'Blessed art thou in the city, and blessed art thou in the field.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:4 - 'Blessed is the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:5 - 'Blessed is thy basket and thy kneading-trough.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:6 - 'Blessed art thou in thy coming in, and blessed art thou in thy going out.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:7 - 'Jehovah giveth thine enemies, who are rising up against thee -- smitten before thy face; in one way they come out unto thee, and in seven ways they flee before thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:8 - 'Jehovah commandeth with thee the blessing in thy storehouses, and in every putting forth of thy hand, and hath blessed thee in the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:9 - 'Jehovah doth establish thee to Himself for a holy people, as He hath sworn to thee, when thou keepest the commands of Jehovah thy God, and hast walked in His ways;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:10 - and all the peoples of the land have seen that the name of Jehovah is called upon thee, and they have been afraid of thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:11 - 'And Jehovah hath made thee abundant in good, in the fruit of the womb, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, on the ground which Jehovah hath sworn to thy fathers to give to thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:12 - 'Jehovah doth open to thee his good treasure -- the heavens -- to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand, and thou hast lent to many nations, and thou -- thou dost not borrow.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:13 - 'And Jehovah hath given thee for head, and not for tail; and thou hast been only above, and art not beneath, for thou dost hearken unto the commands of Jehovah thy God, which I am commanding thee to-day, to keep and to do,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:14 - and thou dost not turn aside from all the words which I am commanding you to-day -- right or left -- to go after other gods, to serve them.

Consequences of Disobedience

(Lev 26:14–46 )
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:15 - 'And it hath been, if thou dost not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God to observe to do all His commands, and His statutes, which I am commanding thee to-day, that all these revilings have come upon thee, and overtaken thee:
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:16 - 'Cursed art thou in the city, and cursed art thou in the field.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:17 - 'Cursed is thy basket and thy kneading-trough.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:18 - 'Cursed is the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:19 - 'Cursed art thou in thy coming in, and cursed art thou in thy going out.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:20 - 'Jehovah doth send on thee the curse, the trouble, and the rebuke, in every putting forth of thy hand which thou dost, till thou art destroyed, and till thou perish hastily, because of the evil of thy doings by which thou hast forsaken Me.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:21 - 'Jehovah doth cause to cleave to thee the pestilence, till He consume thee from off the ground whither thou art going in to possess it.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:22 - 'Jehovah doth smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with extreme burning, and with sword, and with blasting, and with mildew, and they have pursued thee till thou perish
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:23 - 'And thy heavens which are over thy head have been brass, and the earth which is under thee iron;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:24 - Jehovah giveth the rain of thy land -- dust and ashes; from the heavens it cometh down on thee till thou art destroyed.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:25 - 'Jehovah giveth thee smitten before thine enemies; in one way thou goest out unto them, and in seven ways dost flee before them, and thou hast been for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:26 - and thy carcase hath been for food to every fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth, and there is none causing trembling.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:27 - 'Jehovah doth smite thee with the ulcer of Egypt, and with emerods, and with scurvy, and with itch, of which thou art not able to be healed.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:28 - 'Jehovah doth smite thee with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:29 - and thou hast been gropling at noon, as the blind gropeth in darkness; and thou dost not cause thy ways to prosper; and thou hast been only oppressed and plundered all the days, and there is no saviour.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:30 - 'A woman thou dost betroth, and another man doth lie with her; a house thou dost build, and dost not dwell in it; a vineyard thou dost plant, and dost not make it common;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:31 - thine ox is slaughtered before thine eyes, and thou dost not eat of it; thine ass is taken violently away from before thee, and it is not given back to thee; thy sheep are given to thine enemies, and there is no saviour for thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:32 - 'Thy sons and thy daughters are given to another people, and thine eyes are looking and consuming for them all the day, and thy hand is not to God!
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:33 - The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labour, eat up doth a people whom thou hast not known; and thou hast been only oppressed and bruised all the days;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:34 - and thou hast been mad, because of the sight of thine eyes which thou dost see.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:35 - 'Jehovah doth smite thee with an evil ulcer, on the knees, and on the legs (of which thou art not able to be healed), from the sole of thy foot even unto thy crown.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:36 - 'Jehovah doth cause thee to go, and thy king whom thou raisest up over thee, unto a nation which thou hast not known, thou and thy fathers, and thou hast served there other gods, wood and stone;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:37 - and thou hast been for an astonishment, for a simile, and for a byword among all the peoples whither Jehovah doth lead thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:38 - 'Much seed thou dost take out into the field, and little thou dost gather in, for the locust doth consume it;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:39 - vineyards thou dost plant, and hast laboured, and wine thou dost not drink nor gather, for the worm doth consume it;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:40 - olives are to thee in all thy border, and oil thou dost not pour out, for thine olive doth fall off.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:41 - 'Sons and daughters thou dost beget, and they are not with thee, for they go into captivity;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:42 - all thy trees and the fruit of thy ground doth the locust possess;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:43 - the sojourner who is in thy midst goeth up above thee very high, and thou goest down very low;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:44 - he doth lend to thee, and thou dost not lend to him; he is for head, and thou art for tail.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:45 - 'And come upon thee have all these curses, and they have pursued thee, and overtaken thee, till thou art destroyed, because thou hast not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep His commands, and His statutes, which he hath commanded thee;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:46 - and they have been on thee for a sign and for a wonder, also on thy seed -- to the age.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:47 - 'Because that thou hast not served Jehovah thy God with joy, and with gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things --
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:48 - thou hast served thine enemies, whom Jehovah sendeth against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in lack of all things; and he hath put a yoke of iron on thy neck, till He hath destroyed thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:49 - 'Jehovah doth lift up against thee a nation, from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle it flieth; a nation whose tongue thou hast not heard,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:50 - a nation -- fierce of countenance -- which accepteth not the face of the aged, and the young doth not favour;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:51 - and it hath eaten the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, till thou art destroyed; which leaveth not to thee corn, new wine, and oil, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock, till it hath destroyed thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:52 - 'And it hath laid siege to thee in all thy gates, till thy walls come down, the high and the fenced ones in which thou art trusting, in all thy land; yea, it hath laid siege to thee in all thy gates, in all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given to thee;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:53 - and thou hast eaten the fruit of thy body, flesh of thy sons and thy daughters (whom Jehovah thy God hath given to thee), in the siege, and in the straitness with which thine enemies do straiten thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:54 - 'The man who is tender in thee, and who is very delicate -- his eye is evil against his brother, and against the wife of his bosom, and against the remnant of his sons whom he leaveth,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:55 - against giving to one of them of the flesh of his sons whom he eateth, because he hath nothing left to him, in the siege, and in the straitness with which thine enemy doth straiten thee in all thy gates.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:56 - 'The tender woman in thee, and the delicate, who hath not tried the sole of her foot to place on the ground because of delicateness and because of tenderness -- her eye is evil against the husband of her bosom, and against her son, and against her daughter,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:57 - and against her seed which cometh out from between her feet, even against her sons whom she doth bear, for she doth eat them for the lacking of all things in secret, in the siege and in the straitness with which thine enemy doth straiten thee within thy gates.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:58 - 'If thou dost not observe to do all the words of this law which are written in this book, to fear this honoured and fearful name -- Jehovah thy God --
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:59 - then hath Jehovah made wonderful thy strokes, and the strokes of thy seed -- great strokes, and stedfast, and evil sicknesses, and stedfast.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:60 - 'And He hath brought back on thee all the diseases of Egypt, of the presence of which thou hast been afraid, and they have cleaved to thee;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:61 - also every sickness and every stroke which is not written in the book of this law; Jehovah doth cause them to go up upon thee till thou art destroyed,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:62 - and ye have been left with few men, instead of which ye have been as stars of the heavens for multitude, because thou hast not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah thy God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:63 - 'And it hath been, as Jehovah hath rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so doth Jehovah rejoice over you to destroy you, and to lay you waste; and ye have been pulled away from off the ground whither thou art going in to possess it;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:64 - and Jehovah hath scattered thee among all the peoples, from the end of the earth even unto the end of the earth; and thou hast served there other gods which thou hast not known, thou and thy fathers -- wood and stone.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:65 - 'And among those nations thou dost not rest, yea, there is no resting-place for the sole of thy foot, and Jehovah hath given to thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and grief of soul;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:66 - and thy life hath been hanging in suspense before thee, and thou hast been afraid by night and by day, and dost not believe in thy life;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:67 - in the morning thou sayest, O that it were evening! and in the evening thou sayest, O that it were morning! from the fear of thy heart, with which thou art afraid, and from the sight of thine eyes which thou seest.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:68 - 'And Jehovah hath brought thee back to Egypt with ships, by a way of which I said to thee, Thou dost not add any more to see it, and ye have sold yourselves there to thine enemies, for men-servants and for maid-servants, and there is no buyer.'
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The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

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