Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
KJV
King James Version
“Now
if you
faithfully
obey
the voice of the LORD your
God and are
careful
to follow
all His commandments I am
giving
you
today
, the LORD your
God will set you
high above all the
nations of the earth .
And
it
shall
come
to
pass,
if thou
shalt
hearken
diligently
unto
the voice of the LORD thy
God ,
to
observe
and to do
all his commandments which
I command
thee
this
day
, that
the LORD thy
God will set thee
on
high above all nations of the earth :
And all these blessings will
come upon
you
and overtake you
, if you
will
obey
the voice of the LORD your
God :
And all these blessings shall
come on
thee,
and overtake thee
, if thou
shalt
hearken
unto
the voice of the LORD thy
God .
You
will
be
blessed in the city and blessed in the country
.
Blessed shalt
thou
be
in the city ,
and blessed shalt
thou
be
in the field
.
The fruit of your
womb
will
be
blessed
, as
well
as
the produce
of your
land
and the offspring
of your
livestock—
the calves
of your
herds
and the lambs
of
your
flocks.
Blessed
shall
be
the fruit of thy
body
, and
the fruit
of thy
ground,
and the fruit
of thy
cattle,
the increase
of thy
kine,
and the flocks of
thy
sheep
.
Your
basket and kneading
bowl
will
be
blessed
.
Blessed
shall
be
thy
basket and thy
store
.
You
will
be
blessed when you
come
in and blessed when you
go
out.
Blessed shalt
thou
be
when thou
comest
in ,
and blessed shalt
thou
be
when thou
goest
out.
The LORD will
cause the
enemies who
rise up against you
to be defeated
before you.
They will
march
out against you
in
one direction
but
flee from
you
in
seven.
The LORD shall
cause thine
enemies that
rise up against thee
to be smitten
before thy
face:
they shall
come
out against thee
one way,
and
flee before
thee
seven ways
.
The LORD will
decree
a
blessing on
your
barns
and on
everything
to
which
you
put
your
hand; the
LORD
your
God
will
bless you
in the land He
is
giving
you
.
The LORD shall
command
the
blessing upon
thee
in
thy
storehouses,
and in
all
that
thou
settest
thine
hand unto
; and
he
shall
bless thee
in the land which
the
LORD
thy
God
giveth
thee
.
The LORD will
establish you
as
His
holy people, just
as He has
sworn to
you
, if you
keep the commandments of the LORD your
God and walk in His ways.
The LORD shall
establish thee
an
holy people unto
himself
, as he hath
sworn unto
thee
, if thou
shalt
keep the commandments of the LORD thy
God ,
and walk in his ways.
Then
all the
peoples
of the earth will
see that you
are
called by the name of the LORD ,
and they will
stand
in
awe
of you
.
And
all people
of the earth shall
see that thou
art
called by the name of the LORD ;
and they shall
be
afraid
of thee
.
The LORD will
make you
prosper
abundantly—
in the fruit of your
womb
, the offspring
of your
livestock
, and the produce
of your
land—
in the land that
the LORD swore
to
your
fathers to give you
.
And
the LORD shall
make thee
plenteous
in goods,
in
the fruit of thy
body
, and
in
the fruit
of thy
cattle
, and in
the fruit
of thy
ground,
in the land which
the LORD sware
unto
thy
fathers to give thee
.
The LORD will
open the
heavens,
His abundant
storehouse
, to send
rain on
your
land in season and to bless all the work of your
hands.
You
will
lend to
many nations, but
borrow from
none
.
The LORD shall
open unto
thee
his good
treasure
, the
heaven
to give
the
rain unto
thy
land in his
season ,
and to bless all the work of thine
hand:
and
thou
shalt
lend unto
many nations, and
thou
shalt
not
borrow.
The LORD will
make you
the head and not the tail; you
will
only
move
upward
and never
downward
, if
you
hear
and carefully
follow
the commandments of the LORD your
God, which I am
giving
you
today.
And
the LORD shall
make thee
the head ,
and not the tail; and thou
shalt
be
above
only
, and thou
shalt
not
be
beneath;
if
that
thou
hearken
unto
the commandments of the LORD thy
God, which I command
thee
this
day,
to
observe
and
to
do
them:
Do
not turn
aside to
the
right
or
to
the
left
from any of the words I command you
today
, and
do
not
go after other gods to serve them.
And
thou
shalt
not go
aside from any of the words which
I command thee
this
day
, to
the
right
hand,
or
to
the
left,
to
go after other gods to serve them.
If,
however
, you
do
not obey
the LORD your
God by
carefully
following
all His commandments and statutes I am
giving
you
today,
all these curses will
come upon you
and overtake you
:
But
it
shall
come
to
pass
, if
thou
wilt
not hearken
unto
the voice
of
the
LORD thy
God ,
to
observe
to
do
all his commandments and his
statutes which
I command
thee
this
day;
that
all these curses shall
come upon thee,
and overtake thee
:
You
will
be
cursed in the city and cursed in the country
.
Cursed shalt
thou
be
in the city ,
and cursed shalt
thou
be
in the field
.
Your
basket and kneading
bowl
will
be
cursed
.
Cursed
shall
be
thy
basket and thy
store
.
The fruit of your
womb
will
be
cursed
, as
well
as
the produce
of your
land, the calves
of your
herds
, and the lambs
of
your
flocks.
Cursed
shall
be
the fruit of thy
body
, and
the fruit
of thy
land, the increase
of thy
kine
, and the flocks of
thy
sheep
.
You
will
be
cursed when you
come
in and cursed when you
go
out.
Cursed shalt
thou
be
when thou
comest
in ,
and cursed shalt
thou
be
when thou
goest
out.
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
.
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
.
The LORD will
make the plague
cling
to
you
until He has
exterminated
you
from the land that
you
are
entering
to possess.
The LORD shall
make the pestilence
cleave
unto
thee,
until he have
consumed
thee
from off
the land ,
whither
thou
goest
to possess it
.
The LORD will
strike
you
with wasting
disease
, with fever and inflammation, with scorching
heat
and drought
, and with blight
and mildew; these
will
pursue you
until you
perish.
The LORD shall
smite
thee
with a
consumption
, and
with a
fever ,
and with
an
inflammation, and
with an
extreme
burning,
and with
the
sword
, and with blasting,
and with
mildew; and
they
shall
pursue thee
until thou
perish.
The
sky
over your
head will
be bronze
, and the earth beneath
you
iron.
And
thy
heaven
that
is
over thy
head shall
be brass
, and the earth that
is
under
thee
shall
be
iron.
The LORD will
turn
the rain of your
land into
dust
and
powder ;
it
will
descend
on
you
from the
sky
until you
are
destroyed.
The LORD shall
make
the rain of thy
land powder and
dust:
from heaven
shall
it
come
down
upon
thee,
until thou
be
destroyed.
The LORD will
cause you
to be defeated
before your
enemies .
You
will
march
out against them in
one
direction
but
flee from
them
in
seven .
You
will
be an
object
of
horror
to
all the kingdoms of the earth.
The LORD shall
cause thee
to be smitten
before thine
enemies :
thou
shalt
go
out one
way
against them ,
and
flee seven ways
before
them:
and
shalt
be removed
into
all the kingdoms of the earth.
Your
corpses
will
be food
for
all the
birds
of the air and beasts of the earth, with
no one
to
scare
them away.
And
thy
carcass
shall
be meat
unto
all fowls
of the air ,
and unto
the
beasts of the earth, and
no man
shall
fray
them away.
The LORD will afflict
you
with the boils
of Egypt, with tumors
and scabs
and itch from
which
you
cannot
be cured
.
The LORD will smite
thee
with the botch
of Egypt, and
with the
emerods,
and with
the
scab,
and with
the
itch ,
whereof
thou
canst
not
be healed
.
The LORD will
afflict
you
with madness, blindness, and confusion
of mind,
The LORD shall
smite
thee
with madness, and
blindness, and astonishment
of heart:
and at
noon
you
will
grope about
like
a
blind man
in the
darkness .
You
will
not prosper in your
ways .
Day
after
day
you
will
be oppressed and plundered
, with
no one
to
save you
.
And thou
shalt
grope at
noonday,
as
the
blind gropeth
in darkness ,
and
thou
shalt
not prosper in thy
ways :
and
thou
shalt
be only
oppressed and spoiled
evermore
, and
no man
shall
save thee
.
You
will
be
pledged
in
marriage
to
a woman
, but
another man will
violate
her .
You
will
build a
house but
will
not live
in
it.
You
will
plant a vineyard but
will
not enjoy
its
fruit
.
Thou
shalt
betroth
a wife
, and
another man shall
lie
with
her :
thou
shalt
build an
house ,
and
thou
shalt
not dwell
therein:
thou
shalt
plant a vineyard ,
and
shalt
not gather
the
grapes
thereof
.
Your
ox will
be slaughtered
before your
eyes, but
you
will
not eat any
of
it.
Your
donkey
will
be taken away and not returned
to you.
Your
flock
will
be given to
your
enemies, and no
one
will
save
you
.
Thine
ox shall
be slain
before thine
eyes, and
thou
shalt
not eat thereof:
thine
ass
shall
be violently
taken away from
before
thy
face,
and shall
not be
restored
to thee:
thy
sheep
shall
be given unto
thine
enemies, and thou
shalt
have
none
to
rescue
them
.
Your
sons and daughters will
be given to
another nation
, while
your
eyes grow
weary
looking
for them day
after
day ,
with
no power
in your
hand.
Thy
sons and thy
daughters shall
be given unto
another people
, and
thine
eyes shall
look,
and
fail
with
longing
for them all
the
day long;
and
there
shall
be
no might
in thine
hand.
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 .
The fruit
of thy
land ,
and all thy
labors,
shall
a
nation
which
thou
knowest
not
eat
up;
and
thou
shalt
be only
oppressed and crushed alway:
You
will
be driven
mad by
the sights
you
see.
So
that
thou
shalt
be mad for
the sight
of
thine
eyes
which
thou
shalt
see.
The LORD will
afflict
you
with
painful,
incurable
boils
on
your
knees and thighs
, from the soles
of your
feet
to
the top of your
head.
The LORD shall
smite
thee
in
the
knees ,
and in
the
legs
, with
a
sore
botch
that
cannot
be
healed,
from the sole
of thy
foot
unto
the top of thy
head.
The LORD will
bring you
and the
king you
appoint
to
a nation neither you
nor your
fathers have known ,
and there you
will
worship
other gods —gods
of
wood and stone.
The LORD shall
bring thee,
and thy
king which
thou
shalt
set
over
thee,
unto
a nation which
neither thou
nor thy
fathers have known ;
and there shalt
thou
serve
other gods ,
wood and stone.
You
will
become an object
of
horror
, scorn
, and ridicule
among all the
nations to
which
the LORD will
drive
you
.
And
thou
shalt
become an astonishment
, a
proverb
, and a
byword,
among all nations whither
the LORD shall
lead
thee
.
You
will
sow
much seed in
the field but harvest
little ,
because
the locusts
will
consume it.
Thou
shalt
carry
much seed out
into
the field ,
and
shalt
gather
but little in;
for
the locust
shall
consume it.
You
will
plant and
cultivate
vineyards, but will
neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes ,
because
worms will
eat them.
Thou
shalt
plant vineyards, and
dress
them,
but shalt
neither drink of
the wine ,
nor gather the grapes ;
for
the
worms shall
eat them.
You
will
have olive trees throughout your
territory
but will
never
anoint yourself
with oil,
because
the olives
will
drop
off
.
Thou
shalt
have olive trees throughout all
thy
coasts,
but thou
shalt
not
anoint thyself
with the oil;
for
thine
olive
shall
cast
his
fruit
.
You
will
father
sons and daughters, but they
will
not remain
yours,
because
they will
go into captivity.
Thou
shalt
beget
sons and daughters, but thou
shalt
not enjoy
them;
for
they shall
go into captivity.
Swarms
of
locusts
will
consume
all your
trees and the
produce
of your
land.
All thy
trees and fruit
of thy
land shall
the
locust
consume
.
The foreigner
living
among
you
will
rise
higher
and
higher
above you,
while
you
sink
down
lower
and lower
.
The stranger
that
is
within
thee
shall
get
up
above thee
very
high;
and thou
shalt
come
down
very
low
.
He will
lend to you
, but
you
will
not lend to him .
He will
be the head, and you
will
be the tail.
He shall
lend to thee
, and
thou
shalt
not lend to him :
he shall
be the head, and thou
shalt
be the tail.
All these curses will
come upon you.
They
will
pursue you
and overtake you
until
you
are
destroyed
, since
you
did
not obey
the LORD your
God and
keep the
commandments and statutes He gave
you.
Moreover
all these curses shall
come upon thee,
and
shall
pursue thee,
and overtake thee
, till
thou
be
destroyed;
because
thou
hearkenedst
not unto
the voice
of
the
LORD thy
God ,
to
keep his
commandments and his
statutes which
he commanded
thee:
These
curses
will
be a sign and a wonder upon
you
and your
descendants
forever
.
And
they
shall
be upon
thee
for
a sign and for
a wonder ,
and upon
thy
seed
for
ever
.
Because you
did
not serve
the LORD your
God with joy
and gladness of heart in
all
your
abundance
,
Because thou
servedst
not the LORD thy
God with joyfulness,
and with
gladness of heart, for
the
abundance
of
all
things;
you
will
serve your
enemies the LORD will
send against you
in famine
, thirst, nakedness, and destitution.
He will
place
an
iron
yoke on
your
neck until He has
destroyed you
.
Therefore
shalt
thou
serve thine
enemies which
the LORD shall
send against thee,
in hunger
, and
in
thirst, and
in
nakedness, and in
want
of
all
things:
and
he shall
put
a
yoke of
iron
upon
thy
neck ,
until he have
destroyed thee
.
The LORD will
bring a nation from afar
, from the ends
of the earth, to
swoop
down
upon
you
like
an
eagle —
a nation whose language
you
will
not understand ,
The LORD shall
bring a nation against
thee
from far
, from the end
of the earth, as
swift
as
the
eagle flieth;
a nation whose tongue
thou
shalt
not understand ;
a ruthless
nation with
no
respect
for
the old and
no
pity
for
the young .
A nation of
fierce
countenance,
which
shall
not
regard
the person
of
the
old ,
nor
show
favor
to
the young :
They
will
eat the offspring
of your
livestock
and the produce
of your
land until you
are
destroyed .
They
will
leave you
no
grain
or
new
wine or oil, no
calves
of
your
herds
or lambs
of your
flocks, until they
have caused
you
to
perish
.
And
he
shall
eat the fruit
of thy
cattle,
and the fruit
of thy
land ,
until thou
be
destroyed :
which
also
shall
not
leave thee
either
corn,
wine ,
or oil, or the
increase
of thy
kine,
or
flocks of
thy
sheep
, until he
have destroyed
thee
.
They
will
besiege all the
cities
throughout
your
land
, until the
high and fortified
walls in
which
you
trust
have
fallen.
They
will
besiege all your
cities
throughout the
land that
the LORD your
God has
given you
.
And
he
shall
besiege thee
in
all thy
gates
, until thy
high and fenced
walls come
down,
wherein
thou
trustedst,
throughout
all
thy
land:
and
he
shall
besiege thee
in
all thy
gates
throughout all
thy
land ,
which
the LORD thy
God hath
given thee
.
Then
you
will
eat the fruit of your
womb
, the flesh of the
sons and daughters whom
the LORD your
God has
given you
, in the siege and distress that
your
enemy
will
inflict
on
you.
And
thou
shalt
eat the fruit of thine
own
body
, the flesh of thy
sons and of
thy
daughters ,
which
the LORD thy
God hath
given thee
, in the siege ,
and in
the
straitness,
wherewith
thine
enemies
shall
distress thee:
The most
gentle
and
refined
man among you will
begrudge
his brother, the wife he
embraces
, and the rest
of his children who
have
survived,
So
that
the man that
is
tender
among you ,
and
very
delicate,
his eye
shall
be
evil
toward
his
brother, and
toward
the wife of
his
bosom
, and toward
the remnant
of his children which
he
shall
leave:
refusing
to share
with
any of them the flesh of his children he will
eat because he has
nothing left in the siege and distress that
your
enemy
will
inflict
on
you
within
all your
gates.
So
that
he
will
not
give
to any of them of
the flesh of his children whom
he shall
eat :
because he hath
nothing left him
in the siege ,
and in
the
straitness,
wherewith
thine
enemies
shall
distress thee
in
all thy
gates.
The most
gentle
and refined
woman among you, so
gentle
and
refined
she
would not venture
to set the sole of her foot on
the ground, will
begrudge
the husband she
embraces
and her son and daughter
The tender
and delicate
woman among you, which
would not adventure
to set the sole of her foot upon
the ground for
delicateness
and
tenderness
, her
eye
shall
be
evil
toward
the husband of
her
bosom,
and toward
her son ,
and toward
her
daughter ,
the
afterbirth
that comes
from between her legs
and the
children she bears,
because
she will
secretly
eat them for lack
of anything
else
in the siege and distress
that
your
enemy will
inflict
on
you
within
your
gates.
And
toward
her
young
one
that cometh
out
from between her feet,
and toward
her
children which
she shall
bear:
for
she shall
eat them for want
of all
things
secretly
in the siege and straitness,
wherewith
thine
enemy shall
distress
thee
in
thy
gates.
If you
are
not careful
to
observe all the words of this law which
are written in this book, that you
may
fear this glorious and awesome
name —
the LORD your
God —
If thou
wilt
not observe to
do
all the words of this law that
are written in this book, that thou
mayest
fear this glorious and fearful
name ,
THE LORD THY
GOD ;
He
will bring
upon
you
and
your
descendants
extraordinary
disasters
, severe
and lasting
plagues, and terrible
and chronic
sicknesses.
Then
the
LORD
will make
thy
plagues
wonderful
, and the
plagues of
thy
seed
, even
great
plagues,
and of
long
continuance,
and sore
sicknesses ,
and
of
long
continuance
.
He will afflict
you
again
with
all the diseases you
dreaded
in
Egypt, and they will
cling
to
you
.
Moreover
he will bring
upon
thee
all the diseases of
Egypt, which
thou
wast
afraid
of;
and they shall
cleave
unto
thee
.
The
LORD
will
also bring
upon
you
every sickness and plague not recorded
in this
Book of the
Law, until you
are
destroyed.
Also every sickness ,
and every
plague ,
which
is
not written
in the
book of this
law, them
will
the
LORD
bring
upon
thee,
until thou
be
destroyed.
You
who
were
as
numerous
as
the
stars
in
the
sky
will
be left few in number, because you
would
not obey the voice of the LORD your
God.
And
ye
shall
be left few in number, whereas
ye
were
as
the
stars
of
heaven
for
multitude;
because thou
wouldest
not obey the voice of the LORD thy
God.
Just
as
it pleased
the LORD to make
you prosper
and multiply ,
so also
it
will please
Him
to
annihilate
you and
destroy you .
And you will
be uprooted
from the land you
are
entering
to possess.
And
it shall
come
to
pass,
that
as
the LORD rejoiced
over
you
to do
you good,
and to
multiply you;
so the
LORD
will rejoice
over
you to
destroy you ,
and to
bring
you to
nought;
and
ye
shall
be plucked
from off
the land whither
thou
goest
to possess it
.
Then
the LORD will
scatter you
among all the
nations
, from one end of the earth to
the other ,
and there you
will
worship
other gods, gods
of
wood
and
stone,
which neither you
nor your
fathers have known.
And
the LORD shall
scatter thee
among all people
, from the
one end of the earth even
unto
the other ;
and there thou
shalt
serve
other gods, which neither thou
nor thy
fathers have known ,
even
wood
and
stone
.
Among those
nations you
will
find no repose
, not
even
a
resting
place
for
the sole of your
foot .
There
the LORD will
give you
a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a
despairing
soul.
And
among these
nations shalt
thou
find no ease
, neither
shall
the sole of thy
foot have
rest:
but
the LORD shall
give thee
there
a trembling heart, and
failing of
eyes, and sorrow
of
mind:
So
your
life will
hang in doubt before you,
and
you
will
be
afraid
night
and day, never
certain
of survival.
And
thy
life shall
hang in doubt before thee;
and thou
shalt
fear
day and
night
, and
shalt
have
none
assurance
of thy
life:
In the morning you
will
say, ‘If
only
it were evening
! ’
and in
the
evening
you
will
say, ‘If
only
it were morning! ’—because
of
the dread
in
your
hearts
of the terrifying
sights
you
will
see.
In the morning thou
shalt
say, Would
God
it were even
! and at
even
thou
shalt
say, Would
God
it were morning! for
the fear
of thine
heart
wherewith
thou
shalt
fear,
and
for
the sight
of
thine
eyes
which
thou
shalt
see.
The LORD will
return
you
to
Egypt in
ships by a
route
that
I said
you
should
never
see again .
There you
will
sell
yourselves
to
your enemies as
male
and female
slaves
, but
no one
will
buy you. ”
And
the LORD shall
bring
thee
into
Egypt again
with
ships ,
by the
way
whereof
I spake
unto
thee,
Thou
shalt
see it
no
more
again :
and
there ye
shall
be
sold
unto
your enemies for
bondmen
and bondwomen
, and
no man
shall
buy you.
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