Ulangan 28:11-12

28:11 The Lord will greatly multiply your children, ¹  the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil in the land which he ²  promised your ancestors ³  he would give you. 28:12 The Lord will open for you his good treasure house, the heavens, to give you rain for the land in its season and to bless all you do; ⁴  you will lend to many nations but you will not borrow from any.

Ulangan 28:17-24

28:17 Your basket and your mixing bowl will be cursed. 28:18 Your children ⁵  will be cursed, as well as the produce of your soil, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks. 28:19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out. ⁶ 

Curses by Disease and Drought

28:20 “The Lord will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you ⁷  in everything you undertake ⁸  until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me. ⁹  28:21 The Lord will plague you with deadly diseases ¹⁰  until he has completely removed you from the land you are about to possess. 28:22 He ¹¹  will afflict you with weakness, ¹²  fever, inflammation, infection, ¹³  sword, ¹⁴  blight, and mildew; these will attack you until you perish. 28:23 The ¹⁵  sky ¹⁶  above your heads will be bronze and the earth beneath you iron. 28:24 The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust; it will come down on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

[28:11]  ¹ tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV); CEV “will give you a lot of children.”

[28:11]  ² tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 28:8.

[28:11]  ³ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 36, 64).

[28:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “all the work of your hands.”

[28:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[28:19]  ⁶ sn See note on the similar expression in v. 6.

[28:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “the curse, the confusion, and the rebuke” (NASB and NIV similar); NRSV “disaster, panic, and frustration.”

[28:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “in all the stretching out of your hand.”

[28:20]  ⁹ tc For the MT first person common singular suffix (“me”), the LXX reads either “Lord” (Lucian) or third person masculine singular suffix (“him”; various codices). The MT’s more difficult reading probably represents the original text.

[28:20]  tn Heb “the evil of your doings wherein you have forsaken me”; CEV “all because you rejected the Lord.”

[28:21]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “will cause pestilence to cling to you.”

[28:22]  ¹¹ tn Heb “The Lord.” See note on “he” in 28:8.

[28:22]  ¹² tn Or perhaps “consumption” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV). The term is from a verbal root that indicates a weakening of one’s physical strength (cf. NAB “wasting”; NIV, NLT “wasting disease”).

[28:22]  ¹³ tn Heb “hot fever”; NIV “scorching heat.”

[28:22]  ¹⁴ tn Or “drought” (so NIV, NRSV, NLT).

[28:23]  ¹⁵ tc The MT reads “Your.” The LXX reads “Heaven will be to you.”

[28:23]  ¹⁶ tn Or “heavens” (also in the following verse). The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.