English Bible Presentation Sharing - Deuteronomy Book, chapter 28, verse 22 in Nlt Version

Deuteronomy 28 : 1 (NLT)

"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.

Deuteronomy 28 : 2 (NLT)

You will experience all these blessings if you obey the LORD your God:

Deuteronomy 28 : 3 (NLT)

Your towns and your fields will be blessed.

Deuteronomy 28 : 4 (NLT)

Your children and your crops will be blessed. The offspring of your herds and flocks will be blessed.

Deuteronomy 28 : 5 (NLT)

Your fruit baskets and breadboards will be blessed.

Deuteronomy 28 : 6 (NLT)

Wherever you go and whatever you do, you will be blessed.

Deuteronomy 28 : 7 (NLT)

"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!

Deuteronomy 28 : 8 (NLT)

"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.

Deuteronomy 28 : 9 (NLT)

"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.

Deuteronomy 28 : 10 (NLT)

Then 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.

Deuteronomy 28 : 11 (NLT)

"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.

Deuteronomy 28 : 12 (NLT)

The 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.

Deuteronomy 28 : 13 (NLT)

If 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.

Deuteronomy 28 : 14 (NLT)

You must not turn away from any of the commands I am giving you today, nor follow after other gods and worship them.

Deuteronomy 28 : 15 (NLT)

"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:

Deuteronomy 28 : 16 (NLT)

Your towns and your fields will be cursed.

Deuteronomy 28 : 17 (NLT)

Your fruit baskets and breadboards will be cursed.

Deuteronomy 28 : 18 (NLT)

Your children and your crops will be cursed. The offspring of your herds and flocks will be cursed.

Deuteronomy 28 : 19 (NLT)

Wherever you go and whatever you do, you will be cursed.

Deuteronomy 28 : 20 (NLT)

"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.

Deuteronomy 28 : 21 (NLT)

The LORD will afflict you with diseases until none of you are left in the land you are about to enter and occupy.

Deuteronomy 28 : 22 (NLT)

The 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.

Deuteronomy 28 : 23 (NLT)

The skies above will be as unyielding as bronze, and the earth beneath will be as hard as iron.

Deuteronomy 28 : 24 (NLT)

The LORD will change the rain that falls on your land into powder, and dust will pour down from the sky until you are destroyed.

Deuteronomy 28 : 25 (NLT)

"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.

Deuteronomy 28 : 26 (NLT)

Your corpses will be food for all the scavenging birds and wild animals, and no one will be there to chase them away.

Deuteronomy 28 : 27 (NLT)

"The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, scurvy, and the itch, from which you cannot be cured.

Deuteronomy 28 : 28 (NLT)

The LORD will strike you with madness, blindness, and panic.

Deuteronomy 28 : 29 (NLT)

You 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.

Deuteronomy 28 : 30 (NLT)

"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.

Deuteronomy 28 : 31 (NLT)

Your 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.

Deuteronomy 28 : 32 (NLT)

You 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.

Deuteronomy 28 : 33 (NLT)

A 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.

Deuteronomy 28 : 34 (NLT)

You will go mad because of all the tragedy you see around you.

Deuteronomy 28 : 35 (NLT)

The LORD will cover your knees and legs with incurable boils. In fact, you will be covered from head to foot.

Deuteronomy 28 : 36 (NLT)

"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!

Deuteronomy 28 : 37 (NLT)

You will become an object of horror, ridicule, and mockery among all the nations to which the LORD sends you.

Deuteronomy 28 : 38 (NLT)

"You will plant much but harvest little, for locusts will eat your crops.

Deuteronomy 28 : 39 (NLT)

You will plant vineyards and care for them, but you will not drink the wine or eat the grapes, for worms will destroy the vines.

Deuteronomy 28 : 40 (NLT)

You will grow olive trees throughout your land, but you will never use the olive oil, for the fruit will drop before it ripens.

Deuteronomy 28 : 41 (NLT)

You will have sons and daughters, but you will lose them, for they will be led away into captivity.

Deuteronomy 28 : 42 (NLT)

Swarms of insects will destroy your trees and crops.

Deuteronomy 28 : 43 (NLT)

"The foreigners living among you will become stronger and stronger, while you become weaker and weaker.

Deuteronomy 28 : 44 (NLT)

They will lend money to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, and you will be the tail!

Deuteronomy 28 : 45 (NLT)

"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.

Deuteronomy 28 : 46 (NLT)

These horrors will serve as a sign and warning among you and your descendants forever.

Deuteronomy 28 : 47 (NLT)

If you do not serve the LORD your God with joy and enthusiasm for the abundant benefits you have received,

Deuteronomy 28 : 48 (NLT)

you 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.

Deuteronomy 28 : 49 (NLT)

"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,

Deuteronomy 28 : 50 (NLT)

a fierce and heartless nation that shows no respect for the old and no pity for the young.

Deuteronomy 28 : 51 (NLT)

Its 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.

Deuteronomy 28 : 52 (NLT)

They 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.

Deuteronomy 28 : 53 (NLT)

"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.

Deuteronomy 28 : 54 (NLT)

The most tenderhearted man among you will have no compassion for his own brother, his beloved wife, and his surviving children.

Deuteronomy 28 : 55 (NLT)

He 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.

Deuteronomy 28 : 56 (NLT)

The 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.

Deuteronomy 28 : 57 (NLT)

She 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.

Deuteronomy 28 : 58 (NLT)

"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,

Deuteronomy 28 : 59 (NLT)

then 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.

Deuteronomy 28 : 60 (NLT)

He will afflict you with all the diseases of Egypt that you feared so much, and you will have no relief.

Deuteronomy 28 : 61 (NLT)

The LORD will afflict you with every sickness and plague there is, even those not mentioned in this Book of Instruction, until you are destroyed.

Deuteronomy 28 : 62 (NLT)

Though 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.

Deuteronomy 28 : 63 (NLT)

"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.

Deuteronomy 28 : 64 (NLT)

For 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!

Deuteronomy 28 : 65 (NLT)

There 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.

Deuteronomy 28 : 66 (NLT)

Your life will constantly hang in the balance. You will live night and day in fear, unsure if you will survive.

Deuteronomy 28 : 67 (NLT)

In 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.

Deuteronomy 28 : 68 (NLT)

Then 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."