Deuteronomy 28:13 (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)
The Lord will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the Lord your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom.
Deuteronomy 28:14 (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)
Do not turn aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left, following other gods and serving them.
Deuteronomy 28:15 (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)
However, if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you:
Deuteronomy 28:16 (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)
You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.
Deuteronomy 28:17 (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)
Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.
Deuteronomy 28:18 (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)
The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
Deuteronomy 28:19 (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)
You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.
Deuteronomy 28:20 (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)
The Lord will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him.
Deuteronomy 28:21 (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)
The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess.
Deuteronomy 28:22 (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)
The Lord will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish.
Deuteronomy 28:23 (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)
The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron.
Deuteronomy 28:24 (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)
The Lord will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.
Deuteronomy 28:25 (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)
The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven, and you will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms on earth.
Deuteronomy 28:26 (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)
Your carcasses will be food for all the birds and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away.
Deuteronomy 28:27 (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)
The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured.
Deuteronomy 28:28 (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)
The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind.
Deuteronomy 28:29 (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)
At midday you will grope about like a blind person in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue you.
Deuteronomy 28:30 (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)
You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit.
Deuteronomy 28:31 (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)
Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it. Your donkey will be forcibly taken from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them.
Deuteronomy 28:32 (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)
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.
Deuteronomy 28:33 (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)
A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression all your days.
Deuteronomy 28:34 (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)
The sights you see will drive you mad.
Deuteronomy 28:35 (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)
The Lord will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
Deuteronomy 28:36 (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)
The Lord will drive you and the king you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your ancestors. There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone.
Deuteronomy 28:37 (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)
You will become a thing of horror, a byword and an object of ridicule among all the peoples where the Lord will drive you.