God’s Word Translation
Deuteronomy 28:32
32You will watch with your own eyes as your sons and daughters are given to another nation. You will strain your eyes looking for them all day long, but there will be nothing you can do.
Deuteronomy 28:32 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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.
- New International Version (NIV)Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, and you will wear out your eyes watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, but you shall be helpless.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, and your eyes shall look and fail with longing for them all day long; and there shall be no strength in your hand.
Context of Deuteronomy 28:32
30You will be engaged to a woman, but another man will have sex with her. You will build a house, but you won’t live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you won’t enjoy the grapes. 31Your ox will be butchered as you watch, but you won’t eat any of its meat. You will watch as your donkey is stolen from you, but you’ll never get it back. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue it. You will watch with your own eyes as your sons and daughters are given to another nation. You will strain your eyes looking for them all day long, but there will be nothing you can do. 33People you never knew will eat what your land and your hard work have produced. As long as you live, you will know nothing but oppression and abuse. 34The things you see will drive you mad.
Read all of Deuteronomy 28Deuteronomy 28:32 word by word
בָּנֶ֨יךָ וּבְנֹתֶ֜יךָ נְתֻנִ֨ים לְעַ֤ם אַחֵר֙ וְעֵינֶ֣יךָ רֹא֔וֹת וְכָל֥וֹת אֲלֵיהֶ֖ם כָּל־הַיּ֑וֹם וְאֵ֥ין לְאֵ֖ל יָדֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Thy sonsבֵּןbên · son: childH1121
- and thy daughtersבַּתbath · daughterH1323
- givenנָתַןnâthan · to give: giveH5414
- unto anotherאַחֵר'achêr · anotherH312
- peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
- and thine eyesעַ֫יִן‛ayin · eyeH5869
- shall lookרָאָהrâ'âh · to see: seeH7200
- and failכָּלֶהkâleh · longingH3616
- for them all the dayיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
- no mightאֵל'êl · god: powerH410
- in thine handיָדyâd · hand: powerH3027
Cross-references for Deuteronomy 28:32
- Deuteronomy 28:18You will be cursed. You will have few children. Your land will have few crops. Your cattle will be cursed with few calves, and your flocks will have few lambs and kids.
- Numbers 21:29How horrible it is for you, Moab! You are destroyed, you people of the god Chemosh. Chemosh let his sons become refugees and he let his daughters become prisoners of King Sihon of the Amorites.
- 2 Chronicles 29:9Our fathers were killed in battle, and our sons, daughters, and wives are prisoners because of this.
- Nehemiah 5:2Some of them said, “We have large families! We need some grain ⌞if we are going⌟ to eat and stay alive.”
- Jeremiah 15:7“I will separate them with a winnowing shovel at the city gates. I will make them childless. I will destroy my people because they will not change their ways.
- Jeremiah 16:2“Don’t marry! Don’t have any sons or daughters in this place!
- Joel 3:6You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks. That way you could send them far away from their land.
- Amos 5:27I will send you into exile beyond Damascus, says the Lord, whose name is the God of Armies.
- Micah 4:10Daughter of Zion, writhe in pain and groan like a woman in labor. Now you will leave the city, live in the open fields, and go to Babylon. There you will be rescued. There the Lord will reclaim you from your enemies.
- Deuteronomy 28:65Among those nations you will find no peace, no place to call your own. There the Lord will give you an unsettled mind, failing eyesight, and despair.
- Job 11:20But the wicked will lose their eyesight. Their escape route will be closed. Their only hope is to take their last breath.”
- Job 17:5(Whoever turns in friends to get their property should have his children’s eyesight fail.)
- Psalms 69:3I am exhausted from crying for help. My throat is hoarse. My eyes are strained ⌞from⌟ looking for my God.
- Psalms 119:82My eyes have become strained from looking for your promise. I ask, “When will you comfort me?”
- Isaiah 38:14I chirped like swallows and cranes. I cooed like doves. My eyes were tired from looking up to heaven. I’ve suffered miserably, O Lord! Please help me!
- Lamentations 2:11My eyes are worn out with tears. My stomach is churning. My heart is poured out on the ground because of the destruction of my people. Little children and infants faint in the city streets.
Commentaries on Deuteronomy 28:32
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 32Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people - In several countries, particularly in Spain and Portugal, the children of the Jews have been taken from them by order of government, and educated in the Popish faith. There have been some instances of Jewish children being taken from their parents even in Protestant countries.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. 1-68This section explains the conditions for receiving the covenant blessing, the types of blessings, and the curses that will occur if people ignore or disobey these rules (28:1–14; 28:15–68).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 29-3329-33. thou shalt grope at noonday--a general description of the painful uncertainty in which they would live. During the Middle Ages the Jews were driven from society into hiding-places which they were afraid to leave, not knowing from what quarter they might be assailed and their children dragged into captivity, from which no friend could rescue, and no money ransom them.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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