English Standard Version
Deuteronomy 28:21
21The Lord will make the pestilence stick to you until he has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
Deuteronomy 28:21 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
- New International Version (NIV)The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The Lord will make the plague cling to you until He has consumed you from the land which you are going to possess.
- New Living Translation (NLT)The Lord will afflict you with diseases until none of you are left in the land you are about to enter and occupy.
Context of Deuteronomy 28:21
19Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out. 20"The Lord will send on you curses, confusion, and frustration in all that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken me. The Lord will make the pestilence stick to you until he has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it. 22The Lord will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought and with blight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish. 23And the heavens over your head shall be bronze, and the earth under you shall be iron.
Read all of Deuteronomy 28Deuteronomy 28:21 word by word
יַדְבֵּ֧ק יְהוָ֛ה בְּךָ֖ אֶת־הַדָּ֑בֶר עַ֚ד כַּלֹּת֣וֹ אֹֽתְךָ֔ מֵעַל֙ הָֽאֲדָמָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־אַתָּ֥ה בָא־שָׁ֖מָּה לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- The Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
- shall make the pestilenceדֶּ֫בֶרdeber · pestilenceH1698
- cleaveדָּבַקdâbaq · to cleaveH1692
- unto thee, until he have consumedכָּלָהkâlâh · to end: destroyH3615
- thee from off the landאֲדָמָה'ădâmâh · land: soilH127
- whither thou goestבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): comeH935
- to possessיָרַשׁyârash yârêsh · to possess: takeH3423
Cross-references for Deuteronomy 28:21
- Exodus 5:3Then they said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go a three days' journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword."
- Leviticus 26:5Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land securely.
- Numbers 14:12I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."
- Numbers 16:46And Moses said to Aaron, "Take your censer, and put fire on it from off the altar and lay incense on it and carry it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from the Lord; the plague has begun."
- Numbers 25:9Nevertheless, those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
- 2 Samuel 24:15So the Lord sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning until the appointed time. And there died of the people from Dan to Beersheba 70,000 men.
- Jeremiah 15:2And when they ask you, 'Where shall we go?' you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord: "'Those who are for pestilence, to pestilence, and those who are for the sword, to the sword; those who are for famine, to famine, and those who are for captivity, to captivity.'
- Jeremiah 16:4They shall die of deadly diseases. They shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried. They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground. They shall perish by the sword and by famine, and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth.
- Jeremiah 21:6And I will strike down the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast. They shall die of a great pestilence.
- Jeremiah 24:10And I will send sword, famine, and pestilence upon them, until they shall be utterly destroyed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers."
- Matthew 26:7a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table.
Commentaries on Deuteronomy 28:21
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 21The pestilence cleave unto thee - הדבר אה בך יהוה ידבק yadbek Yehovah becha eth haddaber, the Lord shall cement the pestilence or plague to thee. Sept., , The Lord will glue - inseparably attach, the death unto thee. How dreadful a plague it must be that ravages without intermission, any person may conceive who has ever heard the name.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15-68Verses 15-68 The curses correspond in form and number Deuteronomy 28:15-19 to the blessings Deuteronomy 28:3-6, and the special modes in which these threats should be executed are described in five groups of denunciations Deuteronomy 28:20-26 First series of judgments. The curse of God should rest on all they did, and should issue in manifold forms of disease, in famine, and in defeat in war. Deuteronomy 28:20 Vexation - Rather, confusion: the word in the…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-44Verses 15-44 If we do not keep God's commandments, we not only come short of the blessing promised, but we lay ourselves under the curse, which includes all misery, as the blessing all happiness. Observe the justice of this curse. It is not a curse causeless, or for some light cause. The extent and power of this curse. Wherever the sinner goes, the curse of God follows; wherever he is, it rests upon him. Whatever he has is under a curse. All his…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 21the plague cling to you: This means the sickness would continue for a long time. It would not leave them until the nation was destroyed.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2121. pestilence--some fatal epidemic. There is no reason, however, to think that the plague, which is the great modern scourge of the East, is referred to.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Deuteronomy 28
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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