Deuteronomy 28
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Deuteronomy 28:58-68

58“If you are not careful to obey all the words of this law, which are written in this scroll, by fearing this glorious and awe-inspiring name — the Lord, your God —

59he will bring wondrous plagues on you and your descendants, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.

60He will afflict you again with all the diseases of Egypt, which you dreaded, and they will cling to you.

61The Lord will also afflict you with every sickness and plague not recorded in the book of this law, until you are destroyed.

62Though you were as numerous as the stars of the sky, you will be left with only a few people, because you did not obey the Lord your God.

63Just as the Lord was glad to cause you to prosper and to multiply you, so he will also be glad to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You will be ripped out of the land you are entering to possess.

64Then the Lord will scatter you among all peoples from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.

65You will find no peace among those nations, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despondent spirit.

66Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be in dread night and day, never certain of survival.

67In 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 you will have in your heart and because of what you will see.

68The Lord will take you back in ships to Egypt by a route that I said you would never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”

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