Deuteronomy 28:19-23

Contemporary English Version

¹⁹The Lord will make you fail in everything you do.

²⁰No matter what you try to accomplish, the Lord will confuse you, and you will feel his anger. You won't last long, and you may even meet with disaster, all because you rejected the Lord.

^21-23The Lord will send terrible diseases to attack you, and you will never be well again. You will suffer with burning fever and swelling and pain until you die somewhere in the land that you captured.

The Lord will make the sky overhead seem like a bronze roof that keeps out the rain, and the ground under your feet will become as hard as iron. Your crops will be scorched by the hot east wind or ruined by mildew.

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Deuteronomy 28:19-21

New International Version

¹⁹You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.^(A)

²⁰The Lord will send on you curses,^(B) confusion and rebuke^(C) in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin^(D) because of the evil^(E) you have done in forsaking him.^[a] ²¹The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess.^(F)