Deuteronomy 28-29 - Prayer Tents

Deuteronomy 28

Blessings for Obedience

28"If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully keep all his commands that I am giving you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the world.H8085H8085H6963H3068H430H8104H6213H4687H6680H3117H3068H430H5414H5945H1471H7762You will experience all these blessings if you obey the LORD your God.H1293H935H5381H8085H6963H3068H4303Your towns and your fields will be blessed.H1288H5892H1288H77044Your children and your crops will be blessed. The offspring of your herds and flocks will be blessed.H1288H6529H990H6529H127H6529H929H7698H504H6251H66295Your fruit baskets and breadboards will be blessed.H1288H2935H48636Wherever you go and whatever you do, you will be blessed.H1288H935H1288H33187"The LORD will conquer your enemies when they attack you. They will attack you from one direction, but they will scatter from you in seven!H3068H5414H341H6965H5062H6440H3318H259H1870H5127H6440H7651H18708"The LORD will guarantee a blessing on everything you do and will fill your storehouses with grain. The LORD your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.H3068H6680H1293H618H4916H3027H1288H776H3068H430H54149"If you obey the commands of the LORD your God and walk in his ways, the LORD will establish you as his holy people as he swore he would do.H3068H6965H6918H5971H7650H8104H4687H3068H430H1980H187010Then all the nations of the world will see that you are a people claimed by the LORD, and they will stand in awe of you.H5971H776H7200H7121H8034H3068H337211"The LORD will give you prosperity in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you, blessing you with many children, numerous livestock, and abundant crops.H3068H3498H2896H6529H990H6529H929H6529H127H127H3068H7650H1H541412The LORD will send rain at the proper time from his rich treasury in the heavens and will bless all the work you do. You will lend to many nations, but you will never need to borrow from them.H3068H6605H2896H214H8064H5414H4306H776H6256H1288H4639H3027H3867H7227H1471H386713If you listen to these commands of the LORD your God that I am giving you today, and if you carefully obey them, the LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you will always be on top and never at the bottom.H3068H5414H7218H2180H4605H4295H8085H4687H3068H430H6680H3117H8104H621314You must not turn away from any of the commands I am giving you today, nor follow after other gods and worship them.H5493H1697H6680H3117H3225H8040H3212H310H312H430H5647

Curses for Disobedience

15"But if you refuse to listen to the LORD your God and do not obey all the commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come and overwhelm you.H8085H6963H3068H430H8104H6213H4687H2708H6680H3117H7045H935H538116Your towns and your fields will be cursed.H779H5892H779H770417Your fruit baskets and breadboards will be cursed.H779H2935H486318Your children and your crops will be cursed. The offspring of your herds and flocks will be cursed.H779H6529H990H6529H127H7698H504H6251H662919Wherever you go and whatever you do, you will be cursed.H779H935H779H331820"The LORD himself will send on you curses, confusion, and frustration in everything you do, until at last you are completely destroyed for doing evil and abandoning me.H3068H7971H3994H4103H4045H4916H3027H6213H8045H6H4118H6440H7455H4611H580021The LORD will afflict you with diseases until none of you are left in the land you are about to enter and occupy.H3068H1698H1692H3615H127H935H342322The LORD will strike you with wasting diseases, fever, and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew. These disasters will pursue you until you die.H3068H5221H7829H6920H1816H2746H2719H7711H3420H7291H623The skies above will be as unyielding as bronze, and the earth beneath will be as hard as iron.H8064H7218H5178H776H127024The LORD will change the rain that falls on your land into powder, and dust will pour down from the sky until you are destroyed.H3068H5414H4306H776H80H6083H8064H3381H804525"The LORD will cause you to be defeated by your enemies. You will attack your enemies from one direction, but you will scatter from them in seven! You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.H3068H5414H5062H6440H341H3318H259H1870H5127H7651H1870H6440H2189H4467H77626Your corpses will be food for all the scavenging birds and wild animals, and no one will be there to chase them away.H5038H3978H5775H8064H929H776H272927"The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, scurvy, and the itch, from which you cannot be cured.H3068H5221H7822H4714H2914H6076H1618H2775H3201H749528The LORD will strike you with madness, blindness, and panic.H3068H5221H7697H5788H8541H382429You will grope around in broad daylight like a blind person groping in the darkness, but you will not find your way. You will be oppressed and robbed continually, and no one will come to save you.H4959H6672H5787H4959H653H6743H1870H6231H1497H3117H346730"You will be engaged to a woman, but another man will sleep with her. You will build a house, but someone else will live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will never enjoy its fruit.H781H802H312H376H7901H7693H1129H1004H3427H5193H3754H249031Your ox will be butchered before your eyes, but you will not eat a single bite of the meat. Your donkey will be taken from you, never to be returned. Your sheep and goats will be given to your enemies, and no one will be there to help you.H7794H2873H5869H398H2543H1497H6440H7725H6629H5414H341H346732You will watch as your sons and daughters are taken away as slaves. Your heart will break for them, but you won't be able to help them.H1121H1323H5414H312H5971H5869H7200H3616H3117H410H302733A foreign nation you have never heard about will eat the crops you worked so hard to grow. You will suffer under constant oppression and harsh treatment.H6529H127H3018H5971H3045H398H6231H7533H311734You will go mad because of all the tragedy you see around you.H7696H4758H5869H720035The LORD will cover your knees and legs with incurable boils. In fact, you will be covered from head to foot.H3068H5221H1290H7785H7451H7822H3201H7495H3709H7272H693636"The LORD will exile you and your king to a nation unknown to you and your ancestors. There in exile you will worship gods of wood and stone!H3068H3212H4428H6965H1471H1H3045H5647H312H430H6086H6837You will become an object of horror, ridicule, and mockery among all the nations to which the LORD sends you.H8047H4912H8148H5971H3068H509038"You will plant much but harvest little, for locusts will eat your crops.H3318H7227H2233H3318H7704H622H4592H622H697H262839You will plant vineyards and care for them, but you will not drink the wine or eat the grapes, for worms will destroy the vines.H5193H3754H5647H8354H3196H103H8438H39840You will grow olive trees throughout your land, but you will never use the olive oil, for the fruit will drop before it ripens.H2132H1366H5480H8081H2132H539441You will have sons and daughters, but you will lose them, for they will be led away into captivity.H3205H1121H1323H3212H762842Swarms of insects will destroy your trees and crops.H6086H6529H127H6767H342343"The foreigners living among you will become stronger and stronger, while you become weaker and weaker.H1616H7130H5927H4605H4605H3381H4295H429544They will lend money to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, and you will be the tail!H3867H3867H7218H218045"If you refuse to listen to the LORD your God and to obey the commands and decrees he has given you, all these curses will pursue and overtake you until you are destroyed.H7045H935H7291H5381H8045H8085H6963H3068H430H8104H4687H2708H668046These horrors will serve as a sign and warning among you and your descendants forever.H226H4159H2233H5704H576947If you do not serve the LORD your God with joy and enthusiasm for the abundant benefits you have received,H5647H3068H430H8057H2898H3824H723048you will serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you. You will be left hungry, thirsty, naked, and lacking in everything. The LORD will put an iron yoke on your neck, oppressing you harshly until he has destroyed you.H5647H341H3068H7971H7458H6772H5903H2640H5414H5923H1270H6677H804549"The LORD will bring a distant nation against you from the end of the earth, and it will swoop down on you like a vulture. It is a nation whose language you do not understand,H3068H5375H1471H7350H7097H776H5404H1675H1471H3956H808550a fierce and heartless nation that shows no respect for the old and no pity for the young.H1471H5794H6440H5375H6440H2205H2603H528851Its armies will devour your livestock and crops, and you will be destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine, olive oil, calves, or lambs, and you will starve to death.H398H6529H929H6529H127H8045H7604H1715H8492H3323H7698H504H6251H6629H652They will attack your cities until all the fortified walls in your land—the walls you trusted to protect you—are knocked down. They will attack all the towns in the land the LORD your God has given you.H6887H8179H1364H1219H2346H3381H2004H982H776H6887H8179H776H3068H430H541453"The siege and terrible distress of the enemy's attack will be so severe that you will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you.H398H6529H990H1320H1121H1323H3068H430H5414H4692H4689H341H669354The most tenderhearted man among you will have no compassion for his own brother, his beloved wife, and his surviving children.H376H7390H3966H6028H5869H3415H251H802H2436H3499H1121H349855He will refuse to share with them the flesh he is devouring—the flesh of one of his own children—because he has nothing else to eat during the siege and terrible distress that your enemy will inflict on all your towns.H5414H259H1320H1121H398H7604H4692H4689H341H6693H817956The most tender and delicate woman among you—so delicate she would not so much as touch the ground with her foot—will be selfish toward the husband she loves and toward her own son or daughter.H7390H6028H5254H3322H3709H7272H776H6026H7391H5869H3415H376H2436H1121H132357She will hide from them the afterbirth and the new baby she has borne, so that she herself can secretly eat them. She will have nothing else to eat during the siege and terrible distress that your enemy will inflict on all your towns.H7988H3318H7272H1121H3205H398H2640H5643H4692H4689H341H6693H817958"If you refuse to obey all the words of instruction that are written in this book, and if you do not fear the glorious and awesome name of the LORD your God,H8104H6213H1697H8451H3789H5612H3372H3513H3372H8034H3068H43059then the LORD will overwhelm you and your children with indescribable plagues. These plagues will be intense and without relief, making you miserable and unbearably sick.H3068H6381H4347H6381H4347H2233H1419H4347H539H7451H2483H53960He will afflict you with all the diseases of Egypt that you feared so much, and you will have no relief.H7725H4064H4714H3025H6440H169261The LORD will afflict you with every sickness and plague there is, even those not mentioned in this Book of Instruction, until you are destroyed.H2483H4347H3789H5612H8451H3068H5927H804562Though you become as numerous as the stars in the sky, few of you will be left because you would not listen to the LORD your God.H7604H4592H4962H834H3556H8064H7230H8085H6963H3068H43063"Just as the LORD has found great pleasure in causing you to prosper and multiply, the LORD will find pleasure in destroying you. You will be torn from the land you are about to enter and occupy.H3068H7797H3190H7235H3068H7797H6H8045H5255H127H935H342364For the LORD will scatter you among all the nations from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship foreign gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods made of wood and stone!H3068H6327H5971H7097H776H7097H5647H312H430H1H3045H6086H6865There among those nations you will find no peace or place to rest. And the LORD will cause your heart to tremble, your eyesight to fail, and your soul to despair.H1992H1471H7280H3709H7272H4494H3068H5414H7268H3820H3631H5869H1671H531566Your life will constantly hang in the balance. You will live night and day in fear, unsure if you will survive.H2416H8511H5048H6342H3119H3915H539H241667In the morning you will say, 'If only it were night!' And in the evening you will say, 'If only it were morning!' For you will be terrified by the awful horrors you see around you.H1242H559H5414H6153H6153H559H5414H1242H6343H3824H6342H4758H5869H720068Then the LORD will send you back to Egypt in ships, to a destination I promised you would never see again. There you will offer to sell yourselves to your enemies as slaves, but no one will buy you."H3068H7725H4714H7725H591H1870H559H7200H3254H4376H341H5650H8198H7069

Deuteronomy 29

These are the terms of the covenant the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites while they were in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Mount Sinai.H1697H1285H3068H6680H4872H3772H1121H3478H776H4124H1285H3772H2722

Moses Reviews the Covenant

2①Moses summoned all the Israelites and said to them, "You have seen with your own eyes everything the LORD did in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to his whole country—/ ①{Verses 29.2-29 are numbered 29.1-28 in Hebrew text}H4872H7121H3478H559H7200H3068H6213H5869H776H4714H6547H5650H7763all the great tests of strength, the miraculous signs, and the amazing wonders.H1419H4531H5869H7200H226H1419H41594But to this day the LORD has not given you minds that understand, nor eyes that see, nor ears that hear!H3068H5414H3820H3045H5869H7200H241H8085H31175For forty years I led you through the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.H3212H705H8141H4057H8008H1086H5275H1086H72726You ate no bread and drank no wine or other alcoholic drink, but he gave you food so you would know that he is the LORD your God.H398H3899H8354H3196H7941H3045H3068H4307"When we came here, King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out to fight against us, but we defeated them.H935H4725H5511H4428H2809H5747H4428H1316H3318H7125H4421H52218We took their land and gave it to the tribes of Reuben and Gad and to the half-tribe of Manasseh as their grant of land.H3947H776H5414H5159H7206H1425H2677H7626H45209"Therefore, obey the terms of this covenant so that you will prosper in everything you do.H8104H1697H1285H6213H7919H621310All of you—tribal leaders, elders, officers, all the men of Israel—are standing today in the presence of the LORD your God.H5324H3117H6440H3068H430H7218H7626H2205H7860H376H347811Your little ones and your wives are with you, as well as the foreigners living among you who chop your wood and carry your water.H2945H802H1616H7130H4264H2404H6086H7579H432512You are standing here today to enter into the covenant of the LORD your God. The LORD is making this covenant, including the curses.H5674H1285H3068H430H423H3068H430H3772H311713By entering into the covenant today, he will establish you as his people and confirm that he is your God, just as he promised you and as he swore to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.H6965H3117H5971H430H1696H7650H1H85H3327H329014"But you are not the only ones with whom I am making this covenant with its curses.H3772H1285H42315I am making this covenant both with you who stand here today in the presence of the LORD our God, and also with the future generations who are not standing here today.H5975H3426H3117H6440H3068H430H311716"You remember how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we traveled through the lands of enemy nations as we left.H3045H3427H776H4714H5674H7130H1471H567417You have seen their detestable practices and their idols

made of wood, stone, silver, and gold.H7200H8251H1544H6086H68H3701H209118I am making this covenant with you so that no one among you—no man, woman, clan, or tribe—will turn away from the LORD our God to worship these gods of other nations, and so that no root among you bears bitter and poisonous fruit.H3426H376H802H4940H7626H3824H6437H3117H3068H430H3212H5647H430H1471H3426H8328H6509H7219H393919"Those who hear the warnings of this curse should not congratulate themselves, thinking, 'I am safe, even though I am following the desires of my own stubborn heart.' This would lead to utter ruin!H8085H1697H423H1288H3824H559H7965H3588H3212H8307H3820H5595H7302H677120The LORD will never pardon such people. Instead his anger and jealousy will burn against them. All the curses written in this book will come down on them, and the LORD will erase their names from under heaven.H3068H14H5545H639H3068H7068H6225H376H423H3789H5612H7257H3068H4229H8034H806421The LORD will separate them from all the tribes of Israel, to pour out on them all the curses of the covenant recorded in this Book of Instruction.H3068H914H7451H7626H3478H423H1285H3789H5612H845122"Then the generations to come, both your own descendants and the foreigners who come from distant lands, will see the devastation of the land and the diseases the LORD inflicts on it.H1755H314H1121H6965H310H5237H935H7350H776H559H7200H4347H776H8463H3068H247023They will exclaim, 'The whole land is devastated by sulfur and salt. It is a wasteland with nothing planted and nothing growing, not even a blade of grass. It is like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD destroyed in his intense anger.'H776H1614H4417H8316H2232H6779H6212H5927H4114H5467H6017H126H6636H3068H2015H639H253424"And all the surrounding nations will ask, 'Why has the LORD done this to this land? Why was he so angry?'H1471H559H3068H6213H776H2750H1419H63925"And the answer will be, 'This happened because the people of the land abandoned the covenant that the LORD, the God of their ancestors, made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.H559H5800H1285H3068H430H1H3772H3318H776H471426Instead, they turned away to serve and worship gods they had not known before, gods that were not from the LORD.H3212H5647H312H430H7812H430H3045H250527That is why the LORD's anger has burned against this land, bringing down on it every curse recorded in this book.H639H3068H2734H776H935H7045H3789H561228In great anger and fury the LORD uprooted his people from their land and banished them to another land, where they still live today!'H3068H5428H127H639H2534H1419H7110H7993H312H776H311729"The LORD our God has secrets known to no one. We are not accountable for them, but we and our children are accountable forever for all that he has revealed to us, so that we may obey all the terms of these instructions.H5641H3068H430H1540H1121H5704H5769H6213H1697H8451