American Standard Version (EN)

1And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that Jehovah thy God will set thee on high above all the nations of the earth: 2and all these blessings shall come upon thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God. 3Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. 4Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy beasts, the increase of thy cattle, and the young of thy flock. 5Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough. 6Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out. 7Jehovah will cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thee: they shall come out against thee one way, and shall flee before thee seven ways. 8Jehovah will command the blessing upon thee in thy barns, and in all that thou puttest thy hand unto; and he will bless thee in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee. 9Jehovah will establish thee for a holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee; if thou shalt keep the commandments of Jehovah thy God, and walk in his ways. 10And all the peoples of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of Jehovah; and they shall be afraid of thee. 11And Jehovah will make thee plenteous for good, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which Jehovah sware unto thy fathers to give thee. 12Jehovah will open unto thee his good treasure the heavens, to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow. 13And Jehovah will make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if thou shalt hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them, 14and shalt not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them. 15But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day, that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee. 16Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. 17Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough. 18Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, the increase of thy cattle, and the young of thy flock. 19Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out. 20Jehovah will send upon thee cursing, discomfiture, and rebuke, in all that thou puttest thy hand unto to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the evil of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me. 21Jehovah will make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest in to possess it. 22Jehovah will smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish. 23And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. 24Jehovah will make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.  25Jehovah will cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies; thou shalt go out one way against them, and shalt flee seven ways before them: and thou shalt be tossed to and from among all the kingdoms of the earth.  26And thy dead body shall be food unto all birds of the heavens, and unto the beasts of the earth; and there shall be none to frighten them away. 27Jehovah will smite thee with the boil of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scurvy, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed. 28Jehovah will smite thee with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart; 29and thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and robbed alway, and there shall be none to save thee. 30Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not use the fruit thereof. 31Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to save thee. 32Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people; and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day: and there shall be nought in the power of thy hand. 33The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labors, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway; 34so that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. 35Jehovah will smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, whereof thou canst not be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the crown of thy head. 36Jehovah will bring thee, and thy king whom thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation that thou hast not known, thou nor thy fathers; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone. 37And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples whither Jehovah shall lead thee away. 38Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it. 39Thou shalt plant vineyards and dress them, but thou shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worm shall eat them. 40Thou shalt have olive-trees throughout all thy borders, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast its fruit. 41Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be thine; for they shall go into captivity. 42All thy trees and the fruit of thy ground shall the locust possess. 43The sojourner that is in the midst of thee shall mount up above thee higher and higher; and thou shalt come down lower and lower. 44He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail. 45And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee: 46and they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever. 47Because thou servedst not Jehovah thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things; 48therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies that Jehovah shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee. 49Jehovah will bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; 50a nation of fierce countenance, that shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young, 51and shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, until thou be destroyed; that also shall not leave thee grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of thy cattle, or the young of thy flock, until they have caused thee to perish. 52And they shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fortified walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land; and they shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee. 53And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, whom Jehovah thy God hath given thee, in the siege and in the distress wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee. 54The man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he hath remaining; 55so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he hath nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in all thy gates. 56The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, 57and toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates. 58If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, JEHOVAH THY GOD; 59then Jehovah will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. 60And he will bring upon thee again all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee. 61Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will Jehovah bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed. 62And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou didst not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God. 63And it shall come to pass, that, as Jehovah rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Jehovah will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest in to possess it. 64And Jehovah will scatter thee among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou nor thy fathers, even wood and stone. 65And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of thy foot: but Jehovah will give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul; 66and thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear night and day, and shalt have no assurance of thy life. 67In the morning thou shalt say, Would it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would it were morning! for the fear of thy heart which thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. 68And Jehovah will bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I said unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall sell yourselves unto your enemies for bondmen and for bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.


Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
 1   Deut 28:1 The blessings for obedience.
Deut 28:15 The curses for disobedience.
If thou shalt.
Deut 11:13 Deut 15:5 Deut 27:1 Exod 15:26 Lev 26:3 - Lev 26:13 Ps 106:3 Ps 111:10 Isa 1:19 Isa 3:10 Isa 55:2 Isa 55:3 Jer 11:4 Jer 12:16 Jer 17:24 Luke 11:28
to do all.
Ps 119:6 Ps 119:128 Luke 1:6 John 15:14 Gal 3:10 Jas 2:10 Jas 2:11
will set.
Deut 26:19 Ps 91:14 Ps 148:14 Luke 9:48 Rom 2:7

 2   come on thee.
Deut 28:15 Deut 28:45 Zech 1:6 1Tim 4:8

 3   in the city.
Ps 107:36 Ps 107:37 Ps 128:1 - Ps 128:5 Ps 144:12 - Ps 144:15 Isa 65:21 - Isa 65:23 Zech 8:3 - Zech 8:5
in the field.
Gen 26:12 Gen 39:5 Amos 9:13 Amos 9:14 Hag 2:19 Mal 3:10 Mal 3:11

 4   Deut 28:11 Deut 7:13 Gen 22:17 Gen 49:25 Lev 26:9 Ps 107:38 Ps 127:3 Ps 128:3 Pro 10:22 Pro 13:22 Pro 20:7 1Tim 4:8

 5   thy basket. By basket, may be understood the olive-gathering and vintage, in which it was employed; and by the store or remainder, all laid up for future use, or prepared for present consumption.
store. or, dough, or kneading troughs.
Deut 28:5

 6   Deut 31:2 Num 27:17 2Sam 3:25 2Chr 1:10 Ps 121:8

 7   shall cause.
Deut 28:25 Deut 32:30 Lev 26:7 Lev 26:8 2Sam 22:38 - 2Sam 22:41 Ps 89:23
flee before.
Josh 8:22 Josh 10:10 Josh 10:11 Josh 10:42 1Sam 7:3 1Sam 7:4 1Sam 7:10 1Sam 7:11 2Chr 14:2 - 2Chr 14:6 2Chr 14:9 - 2Chr 14:15 2Chr 19:4 2Chr 20:22 - 2Chr 20:25 2Chr 31:20 2Chr 31:21 2Chr 32:21 2Chr 32:22

 8   command.
Lev 25:21 Ps 42:8 Ps 44:4 Ps 133:3
storehouses. or, barns.
Lev 26:4 Lev 26:5 Lev 26:10 2Kgs 6:27 Ps 144:13 Pro 3:9 Pro 3:10 Hag 2:19 Mal 3:10 Mal 3:11 Matt 6:26 Matt 13:30 Luke 12:18 Luke 12:24 Luke 12:25
settest.
Deut 15:10

 9   establish.
Deut 7:6 Deut 26:18 Deut 26:19 Deut 29:13 Gen 17:7 Exod 19:5 Exod 19:6 Ps 87:5 Isa 1:26 Isa 62:12 2Thess 3:3 Titus 2:14 1Pet 2:9 - 1Pet 2:11 1Pet 5:10
sworn.
Deut 7:8 Deut 13:17 Deut 29:12 Exod 19:5 Exod 19:6 Jer 11:5 Heb 6:13 - Heb 6:18

 10   And all.
Mal 3:12
called.
Num 6:27 2Chr 7:14 Isa 63:19 Dan 9:18 Dan 9:19
and they shall.
Deut 4:6 - Deut 4:8 Deut 11:25 Exod 12:33 Exod 14:25 Josh 5:1 1Sam 18:12 - 1Sam 18:15 1Sam 18:28 1Sam 18:29 1Chr 14:17 Jer 33:9 Rev 3:9

 11   plenteous.
Deut 28:4 Deut 30:9 Lev 26:9 Pro 10:22
in goods. or, for good. body. Heb. belly.
Job 19:17 Ps 132:11
; *margins


 12   open.
Deut 11:14 Lev 26:4 Job 38:22 Ps 65:9 - Ps 65:13 Ps 135:7 Joel 2:23 Joel 2:24
to bless all.
Deut 14:29 Deut 15:10
lend.
Deut 28:44 Deut 15:6 Pro 22:7

 13   the head.
Num 24:18 Num 24:19 Isa 9:14 Isa 9:15
if that thou.
Deut 28:1 Deut 4:6 - Deut 4:9 Phil 1:27

 14   thou shalt.
Deut 5:32 Deut 11:16 Deut 11:26 - Deut 11:28 Josh 23:6 2Kgs 22:2 Pro 4:26 Pro 4:27
the right.
Isa 30:21

 15   if thou wilt.
Lev 26:14 - Lev 26:46 Lam 2:17 Dan 9:11 - Dan 9:13 Mal 2:2 Rom 2:8 Rom 2:9
all these curses. The same variety of expression is used in these terrible curses, as in the preceding blessings, to intimate every kind of prosperity or adversity, personal, relative, and public. Consulting the marginal references will generally lead to the best exposition of the terms employed; and will frequently point out the fulfilment of the promises and threatenings.
Deut 28:2 Deut 27:15 - Deut 27:26 Deut 29:20 Isa 3:11 Gal 3:10

 16   in the city.
Deut 28:3 - Deut 28:14 Pro 3:33 Isa 24:6 - Isa 24:12 Isa 43:28 Jer 9:11 Jer 26:6 Jer 44:22 Lam 1:1 Lam 2:11 - Lam 2:22 Lam 4:1 - Lam 4:13 Mal 2:2 Mal 4:6
in the field.
Deut 28:55 Gen 3:17 Gen 3:18 Gen 4:11 Gen 4:12 Gen 5:29 Gen 8:21 Gen 8:22 1Kgs 17:1 1Kgs 17:5 1Kgs 17:12 Jer 14:2 - Jer 14:5 Jer 14:18 Lam 5:10 Joel 1:4 Joel 1:8 - Joel 1:18 Joel 2:3 Amos 4:6 - Amos 4:9 Hag 1:9 - Hag 1:11 Hag 2:16 Hag 2:17 Mal 3:9 - Mal 3:12

 17   Deut 28:5 Ps 69:22 Pro 1:32 Hag 1:6 Zech 5:3 Zech 5:4 Mal 2:2 Luke 16:25

 18   the fruit of thy body.
Deut 28:4 Deut 5:9 Job 18:16 - Job 18:19 Ps 109:9 - Ps 109:15 Lam 2:11 Lam 2:12 Lam 2:20 Hos 9:11 - Hos 9:14 Mal 2:3 Luke 23:29 Luke 23:30
thy land.
Deut 28:16 Lev 26:19 Lev 26:20 Lev 26:26 Hab 3:17

 19   Deut 28:6 Judg 5:6 Judg 5:7 2Chr 15:5

 20   send.
Ps 7:11 Mal 2:2
vexation.
1Sam 14:20 Ps 80:4 - Ps 80:16 Isa 28:19 Isa 30:17 Isa 51:20 Isa 66:15 Zech 14:12 Zech 14:13 John 3:36 1Thess 2:16
for to do. Heb. which thou wouldest do. until thou be.
Deut 4:26 Lev 26:31 - Lev 26:33 Lev 26:38 Josh 23:16

 21   Exod 5:3 Lev 26:25 Num 14:12 Num 16:46 - Num 16:49 Num 25:9 2Sam 24:15 Jer 15:2 Jer 16:4 Jer 21:6 Jer 21:7 Jer 24:10 Matt 26:7

 22   a consumption.
Lev 26:16 2Chr 6:28 Jer 14:12
sword. or, drought. blasting.
1Kgs 8:37 Amos 4:9 Hag 2:17

 23   The language here is remarkable: "Thy heaven;" that part of the atmosphere which was over Judea, instead of being replenished with aqueous vapours, should become, with respect to moisture, like brass: and consequently their land would become as hard as iron, and wholly incapable of cultivation; while the clouds might give showers in abundance, and the earth be moist and fruitful in other regions.
Lev 26:19 1Kgs 17:1 1Kgs 18:2 Jer 14:1 - Jer 14:6 Amos 4:7

 24   make the rain. This was a natural consequence of their heaven's being brass, or yielding no rain; for the surface of the earth being reduced to powder, and frequently taken up by strong winds, would fall down in showers instead of rain. These showers of sand frequently, in the East, bury whole caravans.
Deut 28:12 Gen 19:24 Job 18:15 - Job 18:21 Isa 5:24 Amos 4:11

 25   cause thee.
Deut 28:7 Deut 32:30 Lev 26:17 Lev 26:36 Lev 26:37 Isa 30:17
removed. Heb. for a removing.
Jer 15:2 - Jer 15:9 Jer 24:9 Jer 29:18 Jer 34:17 Ezek 23:46 Luke 21:24

 26   1Sam 17:44 - 1Sam 17:46 Ps 79:1 - Ps 79:3 Isa 34:3 Jer 7:33 Jer 8:1 Jer 16:4 Jer 19:7 Jer 34:20 Ezek 39:17 - Ezek 39:20

 27   the botch.
Deut 28:35 Exod 9:9 Exod 9:11 Exod 15:26
emerods.
1Sam 5:6 1Sam 5:9 1Sam 5:12 Ps 78:66
scab.
Lev 13:2 - Lev 13:8 Lev 21:20 Isa 3:17

 28   1Sam 16:14 Ps 60:3 Isa 6:9 Isa 6:10 Isa 19:11 - Isa 19:17 Isa 43:19 Jer 4:9 Ezek 4:17 Luke 21:25 Luke 21:26 Acts 13:41 2Thess 2:9 - 2Thess 2:11

 29   grope.
Job 5:14 Job 12:25 Ps 69:23 Ps 69:24 Isa 59:10 Lam 5:17 Zeph 1:17 Rom 11:7 - Rom 11:10 Rom 11:25 2Cor 4:3 2Cor 4:4
thou shalt be.
Judg 3:14 Judg 4:2 Judg 4:3 Judg 6:1 - Judg 6:6 Judg 10:8 Judg 13:1 1Sam 13:5 - 1Sam 13:7 1Sam 13:19 - 1Sam 13:22 Neh 9:26 - Neh 9:29 Neh 9:37 Ps 106:40 - Ps 106:42 Lam 5:8 Acts 21:24

 30   betroth.
Deut 20:6 Deut 20:7 Job 31:10 Jer 8:10 Hos 4:2
build.
Job 3:18 Isa 5:9 Isa 5:10 Isa 65:21 Isa 65:22 Jer 12:13 Lam 5:2 Amos 5:11 Mic 6:15 Zeph 1:13
gather. Heb. profane, or, use it as common meat.
Deut 20:6
*marg:
Deut 28:30

 31   ox.
Judg 6:1 Job 1:14 Job 1:15
be restored to thee. Heb. return to thee.


 32   sons. In several countries, particularly in Spain and Portugal, the children of the Jews have been taken from them, by order of the government, to be educated in the Popish faith.
Deut 28:18 Deut 28:41 Num 21:29 2Chr 29:9 Neh 5:2 - Neh 5:5 Jer 15:7 - Jer 15:9 Jer 16:2 - Jer 16:4 Ezek 24:25 Joel 3:6 Amos 5:27 Mic 4:10
fail.
Deut 28:65 Job 11:20 Job 17:5 Ps 69:3 Ps 119:82 Ps 119:123 Isa 38:14 Lam 2:11 Lam 4:17 Lam 5:17

 33   The fruit.
Deut 28:30 Deut 28:51 Lev 26:16 Neh 9:36 Neh 9:37 Isa 1:7 Jer 5:17 Jer 8:16
thou shalt be.
Deut 28:29 Jer 4:17

 34   Deut 28:28 Deut 28:68 Isa 33:14 Jer 25:15 Jer 25:16 Rev 16:10 Rev 16:11

 35   botch.
Deut 28:27 Job 2:6 Job 2:7 Isa 1:6 Isa 3:17 Isa 3:24

 36   bring thee.
2Kgs 17:4 - 2Kgs 17:6 2Kgs 24:12 - 2Kgs 24:15 2Kgs 25:6 2Kgs 25:7 2Kgs 25:11 2Chr 33:11 2Chr 36:6 2Chr 36:17 2Chr 36:20 Isa 39:7 Jer 22:11 Jer 22:12 Jer 22:24 - Jer 22:27 Jer 24:8 - Jer 24:10 Jer 39:5 - Jer 39:7 Jer 52:8 - Jer 52:11 Lam 4:20 Ezek 12:12 Ezek 12:13
there shalt thou. The Israelites, who were carried captive by the Assyrians, and many of the Jews in Chaldea, were finally incorporated with the nations among whom they lived, and were given up to their idolatry. It is probable, however, that this refers to Jews being compelled, in Popish countries, to conceal their religion, and profess that of the Romish church.
Deut 28:64 Deut 4:28 Jer 16:13 Ezek 20:32 Ezek 20:33 Ezek 20:39

 37   become.
Deut 28:28 Deut 29:22 - Deut 29:28 1Kgs 9:7 1Kgs 9:8 2Chr 7:20 Ps 44:13 Ps 44:14 Jer 24:9 Jer 25:9 Joel 2:17
*marg:
Deut 28:37 Zech 8:13
a proverb. The name of Jew has long been a proverbial mark of detestation and contempt among all the nations whither they have been dispersed, and is so to this day, whether among Christians, Mohmammedans, or Pagans.


 38   shalt carry.
Isa 5:10 Mic 6:15 Hag 1:6
for the locust.
Exod 10:14 Exod 10:15 Joel 1:4 Joel 2:3 Joel 2:25 Amos 4:9 Amos 7:1 Amos 7:2

 39   for the worms.
Joel 1:4 - Joel 1:7 Joel 2:2 - Joel 2:4 Jonah 4:7

 40   anoint thyself.
Ps 23:5 Ps 104:15 Mic 6:15

 41   thou shalt not enjoy them. Heb. they shall not be thine. for.
Deut 28:32 2Kgs 24:14 Lam 1:5

 42   thy trees.
Deut 28:38 Deut 28:39 Amos 7:1 Amos 7:2
consume. or, possess.


 43   Judg 2:3 Judg 2:11 - Judg 2:15 Judg 4:2 Judg 4:3 Judg 10:7 - Judg 10:10 Judg 14:4 Judg 15:11 Judg 15:12 1Sam 13:3 - 1Sam 13:7 1Sam 13:19 - 1Sam 13:23 2Kgs 17:20 2Kgs 17:23 2Kgs 24:14 - 2Kgs 24:16 John 18:31 John 19:15

 44   Deut 28:12 Deut 28:13 Lam 1:5

 45   Moreover.
Deut 28:5 Deut 28:15 Deut 29:20 Deut 29:21 Lev 26:28 2Kgs 17:20 Pro 13:21 Isa 1:20 Isa 65:14 Isa 65:15 Jer 24:9 Jer 24:10 Lam 2:15 - Lam 2:17 Ezek 7:15 Ezek 14:21
because.
Deut 11:27 Deut 11:28 Ps 119:21 Jer 7:22 - Jer 7:25

 46   a sign.
Deut 28:37 Deut 28:59 Deut 29:20 Deut 29:28 Isa 8:18 Jer 19:8 Jer 25:18 Ezek 14:8 Ezek 23:32 Ezek 23:33 Ezek 36:20 1Cor 10:11

 47   Deut 12:7 - Deut 12:12 Deut 16:11 Deut 32:13 - Deut 32:15 Neh 9:35 1Tim 6:17 - 1Tim 6:19

 48   serve.
2Chr 12:8 Neh 9:35 - Neh 9:37 Jer 5:19 Jer 17:4 Ezek 17:3 Ezek 17:7 Ezek 17:12
in hunger.
Jer 44:17 Jer 44:18 Jer 44:22 Jer 44:27 Lam 5:2 - Lam 5:6 Ezek 4:16 Ezek 4:17
a yoke.
Isa 47:6 Jer 27:12 Jer 27:13 Jer 28:13 Jer 28:14 Matt 11:29

 49   bring a nation. Though the Chaldeans are frequently described under the figure of an eagle, yet these verses especially predict the desolations brought on the Jews by the Romans; who came from a country far more distant than Chaldea; whose conquests were as rapid as the eagle's flight, and whose standard bore this very figure; who spake a language to which the Jews were then entire strangers, being wholly unlike the Hebrew, of which the Chaldee was merely a dialect; whose appearance and victories were terrible; and whose yoke was a yoke of iron; and the havoc which they made tremendous.
Num 24:24 Isa 5:26 - Isa 5:30 Jer 5:15 - Jer 5:17 Dan 6:22 Dan 6:23 Dan 9:26 Hab 1:6 Hab 1:7 Luke 19:43 Luke 19:44
as the eagle.
Jer 4:13 Jer 48:40 Jer 49:22 Lam 4:19 Ezek 17:3 Ezek 17:12 Hos 8:1 Matt 24:28
a nation whose.
Jer 5:15 Ezek 3:6 1Cor 14:21
understand. Heb. hear.


 50   of fierce countenance. Heb. strong of face.
Pro 7:13 Eccl 8:1
; *margins
Dan 7:7 Dan 8:23
shall not.
2Chr 36:17 Isa 47:6 Hos 13:16 Luke 19:44 Luke 21:23 Luke 21:24

 51   the fruit.
Deut 28:33 Isa 1:7 Isa 62:8
which also.
Lev 26:26 Jer 15:13 Jer 17:3 Ezek 12:19 Hab 3:16 Hab 3:17

 52   Lev 26:25 2Kgs 17:1 - 2Kgs 17:6 2Kgs 18:13 2Kgs 24:10 2Kgs 24:11 2Kgs 25:1 - 2Kgs 25:4 Isa 1:7 Isa 62:8 Jer 21:4 - Jer 21:7 Jer 37:8 Jer 39:1 - Jer 39:3 Jer 52:4 - Jer 52:7 Ezek 4:1 - Ezek 4:8 Dan 9:26 Zech 12:2 Zech 14:2 Matt 22:7 Matt 24:15 Matt 24:16 Luke 19:43 Luke 19:44 Luke 21:20 - Luke 21:24

 53   the fruit.
Deut 28:18 Deut 28:55 Deut 28:57 Lev 26:29 2Kgs 6:28 2Kgs 6:29 Jer 19:9 Lam 2:20 Lam 4:10 Ezek 5:10 Matt 24:19
body. Heb. belly.


 54   his eye.
Deut 15:9 Pro 23:6 Pro 28:22 Matt 20:15
and toward. The Roman armies at length besieged, sacked, and utterly desolated Jerusalem: and during this seige, the famine was so extreme, that even rich and delicate persons, both men and women, ate their own children, and concealed the horrible repast, lest others should tear it from them! "Women snatched the food out of the very mouths of their husbands, and sons of their fathers, and (what is most miserable) mothers of their infants." "In every house, if there appeared any semblance of food, a battle ensued, and the dearest friends and relations fought with one another; snatching away the miserable provisions of life." "A woman distinguished by birth and wealth, after she had been plundered by the tyrants (or soldiers) of all her possessions, boiling her own sucking child, ate half of him, and concealing the other half, reserved it for another time!"
Deut 13:6 2Sam 12:3 Mic 7:5
his children.
Ps 103:13 Isa 49:15 Matt 7:9 - Matt 7:11 Luke 11:11 - Luke 11:13

 55   in the seige.
Jer 5:10 Jer 34:2 Jer 52:6

 56   and delicate.
Isa 3:16 Lam 4:3 - Lam 4:6
her eye shall be evil.
Deut 28:54

 57   young one. Heb. after-birth. cometh out.
Gen 49:10 Isa 49:15
for she shall.
Deut 28:53

 58   If thou wilt.
Deut 28:15 Lev 26:14 Lev 26:15 Jer 7:9 Jer 7:10 Jer 7:26 - Jer 7:28
fear this glorious.
Deut 6:13 Exod 3:14 Exod 3:15 Exod 6:2 Exod 6:3 Exod 20:2 Exod 34:5 - Exod 34:7 Neh 9:5 Ps 50:7 Ps 72:19 Ps 83:18 Isa 41:10 Isa 42:8 Jer 5:12 Matt 10:28 Heb 10:30 Heb 10:31 Heb 12:28 Heb 12:29

 59   Deut 28:46 Deut 29:20 - Deut 29:28 Deut 31:17 Deut 31:18 Deut 32:22 Deut 32:26 1Kgs 9:7 - 1Kgs 9:9 1Kgs 16:3 1Kgs 16:4 Lam 1:9 Lam 1:12 Lam 4:12 Dan 9:12 Hos 3:4 Mark 13:19

 60   Deut 7:15 Exod 15:26

 61   bring upon thee. Heb. cause to ascend.
Deut 28:61

 62   few in number. In the seige of Jerusalem there died 1,100,000 persons, and more than 90,000 were carried captive; and, having afterwards provoked the Romans by their crimes and rebellions, they persecuted them nearly to extirpation; to which, if the tens of thousands which were slaughtered year after year in every country be added, it appears wonderful that there were any remains left.
Deut 4:27 Lev 26:22 2Kgs 13:7 2Kgs 24:14 Neh 7:4 Isa 1:9 Isa 24:6 Jer 42:2 Jer 52:28 - Jer 52:30 Mark 13:20 Rom 9:27 - Rom 9:29
as the stars.
Deut 10:22 Neh 9:23 Rom 9:27

 63   rejoiced over.
Deut 30:9 Isa 62:5 Jer 32:41 Mic 7:18 Zeph 3:17 Luke 15:6 - Luke 15:10 Luke 15:23 Luke 15:24 Luke 15:32
rejoice over.
Pro 1:26 Isa 1:24 Ezek 5:13 Ezek 33:11
plucked from.
Deut 7:22
*marg:
Deut 28:63 Jer 12:14 Jer 12:15 Jer 18:7 Jer 24:6 Jer 31:28 Jer 31:40 Jer 42:10 Dan 7:8

 64   scatter.
Deut 4:27 Deut 4:28 Lev 26:33 Neh 1:8 Jer 16:13 Jer 50:17 Ezek 11:16 Ezek 11:17 Luke 21:24
there thou shalt.
Deut 28:36 Jer 16:13

 65   among. After the conquest of their country by the Romans, Hadrian, by a public decree, ratified by the senate, forbad any Jew to come even within sight of Judea; and hence they were dispersed over every quarter of the globe, where they found no alleviation or respite from misery. In no country are they treated as denizens; all suspect them as enemies, and behave to them as aliens; if they do not, as had been too frequently the case, harass, oppress, and persecute them, even unto death.
shalt thou.
Gen 8:9 Isa 57:21 Ezek 5:12 - Ezek 5:17 Ezek 20:32 - Ezek 20:35 Amos 9:4 Amos 9:9 Amos 9:10
the Lord.
Lev 26:36 Isa 51:17 Ezek 12:18 Ezek 12:19 Hos 11:10 Hos 11:11 Hab 3:16 Luke 21:26
failing of eyes.
Lev 26:16 Isa 65:14 Lam 3:65 Matt 24:8 Rom 11:10

 66   Deut 28:67 Lam 1:13 Heb 10:27 Rev 6:15 - Rev 6:17

 67   Deut 28:34 Job 7:3 Job 7:4 Rev 9:6

 68   bring thee into Egypt. This verse seems especially to point out an event, which took place subsequently to the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus, and the desolation made by Hadrian. Numbers of the captives were sent by sea into Egypt (as well as into other countries), and sold for slaves at a vile price, and for the meanest offices; and many thousands were left to perish from want; for the multitude was so great, that purchasers could not be found for them all at any price!
Deut 17:16 Jer 43:7 Jer 44:12 Hos 8:13 Hos 9:3
there ye shall.
Exod 20:2 Neh 5:8 Esth 7:4 Joel 3:3 - Joel 3:7 Luke 21:24