593 - Curses for Disobedience

Curses for Disobedience

“But, if you refuse to listen, to the Lord your God, and do not obey all the commands and decrees, that I am giving to you today, …all these curses will come and overwhelm you: 

Your towns and your fields will be cursed. 

Your fruit baskets and breadboards will be cursed. 

Your children and your crops will be cursed. 

The offspring, of your herds and flocks, will be cursed. 

Wherever you go and whatever you do, you will be cursed. 

“The Lord Himself will send you curses, confusion, and frustration, in everything you do, …until at last, you are completely destroyed, for doing evil and abandoning the Lord, your God. 

The Lord will afflict you, with diseases, until none of you are left, in the land, that you are about to enter and occupy. 

The Lord will strike you, with wasting diseases, fever, and inflammation, …with scorching heat and drought, …and with blight and mildew. 

These disasters will pursue you until you die. 

The skies above will be as unyielding as bronze, …and the earth beneath will be as hard as iron. 

The Lord will change the rain, that falls on your land, into powder, …and dust will pour down from the sky until you are destroyed. 

“The Lord will cause you to be defeated, by your enemies. 

You will attack your enemies from one direction, but you will scatter from them in seven! 

You will be an object of horror, to all the kingdoms of the earth. 

Your corpses will be food, for all the scavenging birds and wild animals, …and no one will be there to chase them away. 

“The Lord will afflict you, with the boils of Egypt …and with tumors, scurvy, and the itch, from which you cannot be cured. 

The Lord will strike you with madness, blindness, and panic. 

You will grope around in broad daylight,  like a blind person groping in the darkness, …but you will not find your way. 

You will be oppressed and robbed continually, ...and no one will come to save you... 

Deuteronomy 28:15–29 (NLT)

Praise be to God!


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