English Standard Version
Deuteronomy 28:46
46They shall be a sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever.
Deuteronomy 28:46 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.
- New International Version (NIV)They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And they shall be upon you for a sign and a wonder, and on your descendants forever.
- New Living Translation (NLT)These horrors will serve as a sign and warning among you and your descendants forever.
Context of Deuteronomy 28:46
44He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail. 45"All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you. They shall be a sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever. 47Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things, 48therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.
Read all of Deuteronomy 28Deuteronomy 28:46 word by word
וְהָי֣וּ בְךָ֔ לְא֖וֹת וּלְמוֹפֵ֑ת וּֽבְזַרְעֲךָ֖ עַד־עוֹלָֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Deuteronomy 28:46
- Deuteronomy 28:37And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away.
- Deuteronomy 29:20The Lord will not be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of the Lord and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and the curses written in this book will settle upon him, and the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven.
- Isaiah 8:18Behold, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are signs and portents in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
- Jeremiah 19:8And I will make this city a horror, a thing to be hissed at. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its wounds.
- Jeremiah 25:18Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day;
- Ezekiel 14:8And I will set my face against that man; I will make him a sign and a byword and cut him off from the midst of my people, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
- Ezekiel 23:32Thus says the Lord God: "You shall drink your sister's cup that is deep and large; you shall be laughed at and held in derision, for it contains much;
- Ezekiel 36:20But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, they profaned my holy name, in that people said of them, 'These are the people of the Lord, and yet they had to go out of his land.'
- 1 Corinthians 10:11Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.
Commentaries on Deuteronomy 28:46
- 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. 45-68Verses 45-68 If God inflicts vengeance, what miseries his curse can bring upon mankind, even in this present world! Yet these are but the beginning of sorrows to those under the curse of God. What then will be the misery of that world where their worm dieth not, and their fire is not quenched! Observe what is here said of the wrath of God, which should come and remain upon the Israelites for their sins. It is amazing to think that a people so long the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 46a sign and a wonder: This phrase refers to God’s mighty acts. These acts draw attention and show his power and authority (see 6:22). They are meant to cause deep fear and respect among his people.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-681. if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God--In this chapter the blessings and curses are enumerated at length, and in various minute details, so that on the first entrance of the Israelites into the land of promise, their whole destiny was laid before them, as it was to result from their obedience or the contrary.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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