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48 you’ll serve your enemies whom the Lord your God will send against you. You will serve in famine and in drought,[a] in nakedness, and in lack of everything. They’ll[b] set a yoke of iron upon your neck until they[c] have exterminated you.

49 “The Lord will raise a distant nation against you from the other side of the earth. Swooping down like a vulture, 50 it will be a nation whose language you don’t understand, whose[d] stern appearance[e] neither shows regard[f] nor extends grace to anyone whether old or young.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:48 Or in hunger and thirst
  2. Deuteronomy 28:48 Lit. he
  3. Deuteronomy 28:48 Lit. he
  4. Deuteronomy 28:50 Lit. a nation
  5. Deuteronomy 28:50 Or face
  6. Deuteronomy 28:50 Lit. who does not lift faces