Konteks 28:59 then the Lord will increase your punishments and those of your descendants – great and long-lasting afflictions and severe, enduring illnesses.
28:60 He will infect you with all the diseases of Egypt1 that you dreaded, and they will persistently afflict you.2
[28:60]1sn These are the plagues the Lord inflicted on the Egyptians prior to the exodus which, though they did not fall upon the Israelites, must have caused great terror (cf. Exod 15:26).