1 "Now if you truly obey the voice of the LORD your God and take care to carry out all his commandments that I give you today, the LORD your God will raise you high above all the nations of the earth.
2 All these blessings will come on you and reach you, if you obey the voice of the LORD your God.
3 You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the field.
4 The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your livestock, the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
5 Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed.
6 You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.
7 The LORD will let the enemies who rise against you be defeated before you. They will march out against you by one road and run from you by seven.
8 The LORD will order his blessing to be with you in your barns and in all you set your hand to; he will bless you in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
9 The LORD will make you a people holy to himself, as he swore to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in his ways.
10 All the peoples of the earth will see that the name of the LORD is called over you, and they will fear you.
11 The LORD will make you overflow with good things, in the fruit of your womb, the fruit of your livestock, and the fruit of your ground, in the land the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.
12 The LORD will open to you his good treasure house, the heavens, to give your land rain in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but you yourself will not borrow.
13 The LORD will make you the head and not the tail. You will be only on top and never underneath, if you listen to the commandments of the LORD your God that I give you today and are careful to keep them,
14 and do not swerve, either to the right or to the left, from any of the words I command you today, to go after other gods and serve them.
15 But if you do not obey the voice of the LORD your God by carefully keeping all his commandments and statutes that I give you today, all these curses will come on you and reach you.
16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the field.
17 Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.
18 The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the fruit of your ground, the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.
20 The LORD will send against you curse, confusion, and rebuke in all you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and swiftly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in which you have forsaken me.
21 The LORD will make plague cling to you until he has wiped you off the land you are entering to possess.
22 The LORD will strike you with consumption, fever, and inflammation, with fiery heat and the sword, with blight and mildew. They will hound you until you perish.
23 The sky above your head will be bronze, and the ground beneath you iron.
24 The LORD will turn the rain of your land into powder and dust; it will fall on you from the sky until you are destroyed.
25 The LORD will let you be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them by one road and run from them by seven, and you will be a thing of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
26 Your dead bodies will be food for every bird of the sky and every beast of the earth, with no one to scare them off.
27 The LORD will strike you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, scabs, and itch that cannot be cured.
28 The LORD will strike you with madness, blindness, and bewilderment of heart.
29 You will grope at noon as a blind man gropes in darkness, and you will not prosper in your ways. You will be nothing but oppressed and robbed continually, and no one will save you.
30 You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will sleep with her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not enjoy its fruit.
31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it. Your donkey will be taken from you by force and not given back. Your sheep will be handed over to your enemies, and no one will rescue you.
32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another people, and your eyes will wear themselves out looking for them all day long, but your hand will be powerless.
33 A people you do not know will devour the produce of your land and all you have worked for, and you will suffer nothing but oppression and abuse every day.
34 The sights your eyes see will drive you mad.
35 The LORD will strike you with painful boils on your knees and legs, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head, boils that cannot be cured.
36 The LORD will drive you and the king you set over yourselves to a nation unknown to you and your fathers, and there you will serve other gods of wood and stone.
37 You will become an object of horror, a proverb, and a taunt among all the peoples where the LORD drives you.
38 You will take much seed out to the field but bring little in, because locusts will devour it.
39 You will plant and tend vineyards, but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.
40 You will have olive trees all over your territory, but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, because the olives will fall off.
41 You will have sons and daughters, but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity.
42 Swarming insects will take possession of all your trees and the produce of your land.
43 The sojourner living among you will climb higher and higher above you, while you sink lower and lower.
44 He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.
45 All these curses will come on you, chasing you and catching you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God by keeping the commandments and statutes he gave you.
46 They will be a sign and a wonder against you and your descendants forever.
47 Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in the time when you had plenty of everything,
48 you will serve the enemies the LORD sends against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty. He will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.
49 The LORD will bring against you a nation from far away, from the end of the earth, swooping down like an eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand,
50 a fierce-looking nation that shows no respect for the old and no mercy to the young.
51 They will devour the young of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine, or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have brought you to ruin.
52 They will besiege you in all your towns until the high, fortified walls you trusted in fall down everywhere in your land. They will besiege you in all your towns throughout the land the LORD your God has given you.
53 In the siege and the dire straits your enemy will bring on you, you will eat the fruit of your own womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the LORD your God has given you.
54 Even the most gentle and refined man among you will begrudge food to his own brother, to the wife he embraces, and to his remaining children,
55 refusing to give any of them the flesh of his children that he is eating, since nothing else is left to him in the siege and the dire straits your enemy will bring on you in all your towns.
56 The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined that she would not dare to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge food to the husband she embraces, to her son and her daughter,
57 even the afterbirth that comes out from between her legs and the children she bears. For in her lack of everything she will eat them in secret, in the siege and the dire straits your enemy will bring on you in your towns.
58 If you are not careful to carry out all the words of this law written in this book, and do not fear this glorious and awesome name, the LORD your God,
59 then the LORD will bring extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants, great and long-lasting plagues, and severe and lingering illnesses.
60 He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will cling to you.
61 The LORD will also bring on you every sickness and plague not recorded in the book of this law, until you are destroyed.
62 You who were as numerous as the stars of the sky will be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
63 Just as the LORD delighted in doing you good and multiplying you, so the LORD will delight in ruining and destroying you. You will be torn away from the land you are entering to possess.
64 The LORD will scatter you among all peoples from one end of the earth to the other. There you will serve other gods of wood and stone, gods unknown to you and your fathers.
65 Among those nations you will find no rest, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a languishing soul.
66 Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be in dread night and day, with no assurance of your life.
67 In the morning you will say, 'If only it were evening!' and in the evening you will say, 'If only it were morning!' because of the dread that fills your heart and the sights your eyes will see.
68 The LORD will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the route I told you that you would never see again. There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer."