Julia Evelina Smith Parker (1876)

1And it being if hearing thou shalt hear to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to watch and to do all his commands that I command thee this day, and Jehovah thy God gave thee high above all the nations of the earth. 2And all these blessings came upon thee and overtook thee, when thou shalt hear to the voice of Jehovah thy God. 3Blessed thou in the city, blessed thou in the field. 4Blessed the fruit of thy belly, and the fruit of thy land, and the fruit of thy cattle, the offspring of thine oxen and the flocks of thy sheep. 5Blessed thy basket and thy remainders. 6Blessed thou in thy coming in, and blessed thou in thy going out 7Jehovah will give thine enemies rising up against thee smitten before thy face; in one way shall they come forth against thee, and in seven ways shall they flee before thy face. 8Jehovah will command with thee the blessing in thy store-houses, and in all the sending forth of thy hand; and he blessed thee in the land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee. 9Jehovah will raise thee up to him for a holy people, as he sware to thee, when thou shalt watch the commands of Jehovah thy God and go in his ways. 10And all the peoples of the earth saw that the name of Jehovah was called upon thee; and they were afraid of thee. 11And Jehovah made thee to abound for good in the fruit of thy belly, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, upon the land which Jehovah sware to thy fathers to give to thee. 12Jehovah will open to thee his good store, the heavens to give the rain of thy land in its time, and to bless all the doing of thy hand: and thou didst lend to many nations, and thou shalt not borrow. 13And Jehovah gave thee for head, and not for tail: and thou wert only for ascending, and thou shalt not be for beneath; when thou shalt hear to the commands of Jehovah thy God that I command thee this day, to watch and to do. 14And thou shalt not turn aside from all the words which I command you this day, to the right and to the left, to go after other gods to serve them. 15And it being, if thou shalt not hear to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to watch to do all his commands and his laws which I command thee this day; and all these curses came upon thee, and overtook thee: 16Cursed thou in the city, and cursed thou in the field. 17Cursed thy basket and thy remainders. 18Cursed the fruit of thy belly, and the fruit of thy land, the offspring of thine oxen, and the flocks of thy sheep. 19Cursed thou in thy coming in, and cursed thou in thy going out 20Jehovah will send upon thee the curse and the consternation, and the rebuke, upon all the sending forth of thy hand which thou shalt do, till he destroyed thee, and till he caused thee to perish quickly: on account of the evil of thy works by which thou forsookest me. 21Jehovah shall cleave upon thee death, till his consuming thee from the land which thou wentest there to possess it 22Jehovah shall strike thee with consumption, and with burning fever, and with inflammation, and with sword and with burning, and with blasting, and with yellowness: and they shall pursue thee till he have destroyed thee. 23And the heavens which over thy head were brass, and the earth which is under thee, iron. 24Jehovah will give the rain of thy land dust and clay: from the heavens shall it come down upon thee, till he destroyed thee. 25And Jehovah will give thee smitten before thine enemies: in one way thou shalt go forth against him, and in seven ways shalt thou flee before his face; and thou wert for a shaking to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26And thy carcass was for food to all the birds of the heavens and to the cattle of the earth, and none terrifying.  27Jehovah shall strike thee with the burning sore of Egypt, and with tumors, and with scratching, and with the itch of which thou shalt not be able to be healed. 28Jehovah will strike thee with madness and with blindness and with astonishment of heart; 29And thou wert groping at noon as the blind shall grope in darkness, and thou shalt not succeed with thy ways: and thou wert only oppressed and stripped all the days, and none saving. 30Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build a house and shall not dwell in it; thou shalt plant a vineyard and thou shalt not lay it open. 31Thine ox slaughtered before thine eyes and thou shalt not eat from it: thine ass stripped from before thee and shall not turn back to thee; thy sheep, given to thine enemies, and none to thee saving. 32Thy sons and thy daughters given to another people, and thine eyes seeing and failing for them all the day: and nothing for the strength of thy hand. 33The fruit of thy land and all thy labors, a people which thou knewest not shall eat: and thou wert only oppressed and broken all the days. 34And thou wert mad from the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. 35Jehovah shall strike thee with an evil burning sore upon thy knees and upon thy legs, which thou shalt not be able to heal from the sole of thy foot to thy crown. 36Jehovah shall lead thee, and thy king which thou shalt set up over thee, to a nation which thou knewest not thou and thy fathers; and thou servedst there other gods, wood and stone. 37And thou wert for an astonishment, for a parable, for a sharp saying in all the peoples where Jehovah shall lead thee there. 38Thou shalt bring out much seed to thy field, and shalt gather little, for the locust shall devour it 39Thou shalt plant vineyards and thou shalt work; and thou shalt not drink the wine, and thou shalt not gather, for the worm shall eat it 40Olive trees shall be to thee in all thy boundaries, and thou shalt not be anointed with oil, for thine olive shall slip away. 41And thou shalt beget sons and daughters, and they shall not be to thee, for they shall go into captivity. 42All thy wood and the fruit of thy land shall the grasshopper seize. 43The stranger which is in the midst of thee shall go up above thee, going up, going up; and thou shalt go down beneath, beneath. 44He shall lend to thee and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be for head, and thou shalt be for tail. 45And all these curses came upon thee and pursued thee and overtook thee, till he destroyed thee; for thou heardst not to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to watch his commands and his laws which he commanded thee. 46And they were upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed even to forever. 47Because that thou servedst not Jehovah thy God injoy and in a good heart for the multitude of all things. 48And thou servedst thine enemies which Jehovah shall send forth against thee in hunger and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things and he gave a yoke of iron upon thy neck till his destroying thee. 49Jehovah shall raise up against thee a nation from far off, from the extremity of the earth, as the eagle shall fly, whose tongue thou shalt not hear; 50A nation strong of face who shall not lift up the face to the old man, and shall not compassionate the young. 51And it shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land till he destroyed thee: which shall not leave to thee grain, new wine or new oil, the offspring of thine oxen and the flocks of thy sheep, till his destroying thee. 52And he passed upon thee in all thy gates until the coming down of thy high and inaccessible fortresses which thou trustest in them in all thy land: and he passed upon thee in all thy gates in all thy land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee. 53And thou atest the fruit of thy belly, the flesh of thy sons and thy daughters, which Jehovah thy God gave to thee, in the distress and in the straitness which thine enemy shall press upon thee: 54The man tender in thee, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil upon his brother, and upon the wife of his bosom, and upon the remainder of his sons which he shall leave: 55The gift to one of them of the flesh of his sons which he shall eat from: nothing remaining to him of all things in the distress and in the straitness which his enemy shall press upon thee in all thy gates. 56She tender and delicate in thee, who tried not to set the sole of her foot upon the earth from delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil upon the husband of her bosom, and upon her son, and upon her daughter, 57And upon her afterbirth coming forth from between her feet, and upon her sons which she shall bear: for she will eat them in want of all things, in secret, in the distress and in the straitness which thine enemy shall press upon thee in thy gates. 58If thou shalt not watch to do all the words of this law being written in this book, to fear this honored and fearful name JEHOVAH THY GOD; 59And Jehovah made thy smiting wonderful, and the smitings of thy seed, great and lasting blows, and evil and lasting diseases. 60And he turned back upon thee all the sicknesses of Egypt, of which thou west afraid from their face, and they did cleave to thee. 61Also every disease and every blow which is not written in the book of this law, Jehovah will bring them up upon thee, till he destroyed thee. 62And ye were left few in extension, instead of which ye were as the stars of the heavens for multitude, because thou heardst not to the voice of Jehovah thy God. 63And it being as Jehovah rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you, so Jehovah shall rejoice over you to destroy you and to cut you off; and ye were torn away from the land which thou wentest in there to possess it. 64And Jehovah scattered thee among all peoples from the end of the earth even to the end of the earth; and thou servedst there other gods which thou knewest not, thou and thy fathers, wood and stone. 65And among these nations thou shalt not rest, and there shall not be rest to the sole of thy foot: and Jehovah gave to thee there a trembling heart and a wasting away of the eyes, and a faintnesss of soul. 66And thy lives were hung before thee; and thou wert afraid night and day, and thou shalt not trust to thy life 67In the morning thou shalt say, Who shall give evening? and in the evening thou shalt say, Who shall give morning? from the feat of thy heart which thou shalt fear, and from the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. 68And Jehovah turned thee back to Egypt in ships, in the way; which I said to thee, Thou shalt not add more to see it: and ye were sold there to thine enemies for servants , and for maids, and none buying


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