595 - Still More Curses for Disobedience

​Still More Curses for Disobedience

“The foreigners, who are living among you, will become stronger and stronger, while you become weaker and weaker. 

They will lend money to you, but you will not lend to them. 

They will be the head, and you will be the tail! 

“If you refuse to listen to the Lord, your God… and to obey the commands and decrees, that He has given you, …all these curses will pursue you …and overtake you until you are destroyed. 

These horrors will serve as a sign …and a warning among you …and your descendants, forever. 

If you do not serve the Lord, your God, with joy and enthusiasm, for the abundant benefits, that you have received, …you will serve your enemies, whom the Lord will send against you. 

You will be left hungry, thirsty, naked, …and lacking in everything. 

The Lord will put an iron yoke, on your neck, …oppressing you harshly, until He has destroyed you. 

“The Lord will bring a distant nation against you,  from the end of the earth, and it will swoop down on you like a vulture. 

It is a nation whose language you do not understand, …a fierce and heartless nation, …one that shows no respect for the old …and no pity for the young. 

Its armies will devour your livestock and crops, …and you will be destroyed. 

They will leave you no grain, or new wine, or olive oil, or calves, or lambs, …and you will starve to death. 

They will attack your cities until all the fortified walls in your land—the walls you trusted to protect you—are knocked down. 

They will attack all the towns, in the land, that the Lord, your God, has given you. 

“The siege and terrible distress, of the enemy’s attack, will be so severe, that you will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters, whom the Lord, your God, has given to you. 

The most tenderhearted man, among you, will have no compassion for his own brother, or his beloved wife, or his surviving children. 

He will refuse to share, with them, the flesh, that he is devouring—the flesh of one of his own children—because he has nothing else to eat, during the siege and terrible distress, that your enemy will inflict on all your towns. 

The most tender and delicate woman among you—so delicate she would not so much as touch the ground with her foot—will be selfish toward the husband she loves and toward her own son or daughter. 

She will hide from them the afterbirth …and the new baby, which she has borne, so that she herself can secretly eat them. 

She will have nothing else to eat, during the siege and the terrible distress, that your enemy will inflict on all your towns. 

Deuteronomy 28:43–57 (NLT)

Praise be to God!



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