VW-Edition Bible (2010)

1And it shall come to pass, if you take heed to obey the voice of Jehovah your God, to take heed to do all His commandments which I am commanding you today, that Jehovah your God will set you high above all nations of the earth. 2And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of Jehovah your God: 3Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field. 4Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb, the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your livestock, the offspring of your cattle and the increase of your flocks. 5Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. 6Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out. 7Jehovah shall cause your enemies who rise against you to be stricken before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways. 8Jehovah shall command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you put your hand, and He will bless you in the land which Jehovah your God is giving to you. 9Jehovah will establish you as a holy people unto Himself, as He has sworn unto you, if you keep the commandments of Jehovah your God and have walked in His ways. 10And all peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of Jehovah, and they shall be afraid of you. 11And Jehovah will make you exceed in prosperity, in the fruit of your womb, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land of which Jehovah has sworn to your fathers to give to you. 12Jehovah will open to you His good treasure, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. 13And Jehovah will make you the head and not the tail; you shall be above only, and not be beneath, if you heed the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I am commanding you today, and take heed to do them. 14And you shall not turn aside from any of the words which I am commanding you this day, to the right or the left, to go after other gods to serve them. 15But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of Jehovah your God, to take heed to do all His commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today, that all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you: 16Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field. 17Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. 18Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, the offspring of your cattle and the increase of your flocks. 19Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out. 20Jehovah will send upon you cursing, turmoil, and rebuke in all that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your doings in which you have forsaken Me. 21Jehovah will make the plague cling to you until He has consumed you from off the land which you are going in to possess. 22Jehovah will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with burning fever, with the sword, with blight, and with mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish. 23And your heavens over your head shall be bronze, and the earth under you shall be iron. 24Jehovah will make the rain of your land into dust and powder; from the heavens it shall come down upon you until you are destroyed. 25Jehovah will cause you to be stricken before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them; and you shall be an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26Your carcasses shall be food for all the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth, and no one shall frighten them away. 27Jehovah will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors, with the scab, and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed. 28Jehovah will strike you with madness and blindness and bewilderment of heart. 29And you shall grope at noonday, as a blind man gropes in darkness; you shall not prosper in your ways; you shall be only oppressed and plundered all your days, and no one shall deliver you. 30You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall lie with her; you shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it; you shall plant a vineyard, but shall not begin to eat. 31Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat of it; your donkey shall be violently taken away from before you, and shall not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have no one to rescue them. 32Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, and your eyes shall look and fail with longing for them all day long; and there shall be no might in your hand. 33A nation whom you have not known shall eat the fruit of your land and your produce, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually. 34Thus you shall be driven mad because of the sight which your eyes see. 35Jehovah will strike you in the knees and on the legs with severe boils which cannot be healed, and from the sole of your foot to the top of your head. 36Jehovah will bring you and the king whom you set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods; wood and stone. 37And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the nations where Jehovah shall drive you. 38You shall carry much seed out to the field but gather little in, for the locust shall consume it. 39You shall plant vineyards and tend them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them. 40You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives shall drop off. 41You shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity. 42Locusts shall dispossess all your trees and the produce of your land.  43The sojourners among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. 44He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail. 45Moreover all these curses shall come upon you and pursue and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of Jehovah your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He has commanded you. 46And they shall be upon you for a sign and a wonder, and upon your seed perpetually. 47Because you did not serve Jehovah your God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things, 48therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom Jehovah will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He will put a yoke of iron upon your neck until He has destroyed you. 49Jehovah will bring a nation against you from afar, from the ends of the earth, as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand, 50a nation of fierce countenance, which does not regard the face of the old nor show favor to the young. 51And they shall eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your land, until you are destroyed; they shall not leave you grain or new wine or oil, or the offspring of your cattle or the increase of your flocks, until they have destroyed you. 52They shall besiege you at all your gates until your high and fortified walls, in which you trust, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you at all your gates throughout all your land which Jehovah your God has given to you. 53You shall eat the fruit of your own womb, the flesh of your sons and your daughters whom Jehovah your God has given to you, in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemies shall distress you. 54The eye of the man who is tender and very delicate shall quiver with hostility toward his brother, toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the rest of his children whom he leaves behind, 55so that he will not give to any of them the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you in all your gates. 56The eye of the tender and dainty woman among you, who would not have ventured to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her delicateness and tenderness, will quiver with hostility toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son and her daughter, 57and toward her afterbirth which comes forth from between her feet and her children whom she bears; for she shall eat them secretly for lack of everything in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you in all your gates. 58If you do not take heed to do all the Words of this Law that are written in this book, to fear this glorious and awesome name, JEHOVAH GOD, 59then Jehovah will bring upon you and your seed extraordinary plagues; great and long lasting plagues; and evil long lasting sicknesses. 60Moreover He will bring back upon you all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cleave to you. 61Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in this Book of the Law, will Jehovah bring upon you to destroy you. 62You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven in multitude, because you would not obey the voice of Jehovah your God. 63And it shall be, that just as Jehovah has rejoiced over you to do you good and multiply you, so Jehovah will rejoice over you to destroy you and annihilate you; and you shall be torn away from off the land which you are going in to possess. 64And Jehovah will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known; wood and stone. 65And among those nations you shall find no rest, nor shall the sole of your foot have a resting place; but there Jehovah shall give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and fainting soul. 66Your life shall hang in doubt before you; you shall fear day and night, and have no assurance of life. 67In the morning you shall say, Oh, that it were evening! And at evening you shall say, Oh, that it were morning! because of the fear which terrifies your heart, and because of the sight which your eyes see. 68And Jehovah will take you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I had said to you, You shall never see it again. And there you shall have been sold to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.


Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
 1   Dt 28:1 The blessings for obedience.
Dt 28:15 The curses for disobedience.
If thou shalt.
Dt 11:13 Dt 15:5 Dt 27:1 Ex 15:26 Lv 26:3 - Lv 26:13 Ps 106:3 Ps 111:10 Es 1:19 Es 3:10 Es 55:2 Es 55:3 Jr 11:4 Jr 12:16 Jr 17:24 Lc 11:28
to do all.
Ps 119:6 Ps 119:128 Lc 1:6 Jn 15:14 Gal 3:10 Js 2:10 Js 2:11
will set.
Dt 26:19 Ps 91:14 Ps 148:14 Lc 9:48 Rm 2:7

 2   come on thee.
Dt 28:15 Dt 28:45 Zc 1:6 1Tm 4:8

 3   in the city.
Ps 107:36 Ps 107:37 Ps 128:1 - Ps 128:5 Ps 144:12 - Ps 144:15 Es 65:21 - Es 65:23 Zc 8:3 - Zc 8:5
in the field.
Gn 26:12 Gn 39:5 Am 9:13 Am 9:14 Ag 2:19 Ml 3:10 Ml 3:11

 4   Dt 28:11 Dt 7:13 Gn 22:17 Gn 49:25 Lv 26:9 Ps 107:38 Ps 127:3 Ps 128:3 Prv 10:22 Prv 13:22 Prv 20:7 1Tm 4:8

 5   thy basket. By basket, may be understood the olive-gathering and vintage, in which it was employed; and by the store or remainder, all laid up for future use, or prepared for present consumption.
store. or, dough, or kneading troughs.
Dt 28:5

 6   Dt 31:2 Nb 27:17 2Sm 3:25 2Ch 1:10 Ps 121:8

 7   shall cause.
Dt 28:25 Dt 32:30 Lv 26:7 Lv 26:8 2Sm 22:38 - 2Sm 22:41 Ps 89:23
flee before.
Jos 8:22 Jos 10:10 Jos 10:11 Jos 10:42 1Sm 7:3 1Sm 7:4 1Sm 7:10 1Sm 7:11 2Ch 14:2 - 2Ch 14:6 2Ch 14:9 - 2Ch 14:15 2Ch 19:4 2Ch 20:22 - 2Ch 20:25 2Ch 31:20 2Ch 31:21 2Ch 32:21 2Ch 32:22

 8   command.
Lv 25:21 Ps 42:8 Ps 44:4 Ps 133:3
storehouses. or, barns.
Lv 26:4 Lv 26:5 Lv 26:10 2Ro 6:27 Ps 144:13 Prv 3:9 Prv 3:10 Ag 2:19 Ml 3:10 Ml 3:11 Mt 6:26 Mt 13:30 Lc 12:18 Lc 12:24 Lc 12:25
settest.
Dt 15:10

 9   establish.
Dt 7:6 Dt 26:18 Dt 26:19 Dt 29:13 Gn 17:7 Ex 19:5 Ex 19:6 Ps 87:5 Es 1:26 Es 62:12 2Ts 3:3 Tt 2:14 1P 2:9 - 1P 2:11 1P 5:10
sworn.
Dt 7:8 Dt 13:17 Dt 29:12 Ex 19:5 Ex 19:6 Jr 11:5 Heb 6:13 - Heb 6:18

 10   And all.
Ml 3:12
called.
Nb 6:27 2Ch 7:14 Es 63:19 Dn 9:18 Dn 9:19
and they shall.
Dt 4:6 - Dt 4:8 Dt 11:25 Ex 12:33 Ex 14:25 Jos 5:1 1Sm 18:12 - 1Sm 18:15 1Sm 18:28 1Sm 18:29 1Ch 14:17 Jr 33:9 Ap 3:9

 11   plenteous.
Dt 28:4 Dt 30:9 Lv 26:9 Prv 10:22
in goods. or, for good. body. Heb. belly.
Jb 19:17 Ps 132:11
; *margins


 12   open.
Dt 11:14 Lv 26:4 Jb 38:22 Ps 65:9 - Ps 65:13 Ps 135:7 Jl 2:23 Jl 2:24
to bless all.
Dt 14:29 Dt 15:10
lend.
Dt 28:44 Dt 15:6 Prv 22:7

 13   the head.
Nb 24:18 Nb 24:19 Es 9:14 Es 9:15
if that thou.
Dt 28:1 Dt 4:6 - Dt 4:9 Php 1:27

 14   thou shalt.
Dt 5:32 Dt 11:16 Dt 11:26 - Dt 11:28 Jos 23:6 2Ro 22:2 Prv 4:26 Prv 4:27
the right.
Es 30:21

 15   if thou wilt.
Lv 26:14 - Lv 26:46 Lm 2:17 Dn 9:11 - Dn 9:13 Ml 2:2 Rm 2:8 Rm 2:9
all these curses. The same variety of expression is used in these terrible curses, as in the preceding blessings, to intimate every kind of prosperity or adversity, personal, relative, and public. Consulting the marginal references will generally lead to the best exposition of the terms employed; and will frequently point out the fulfilment of the promises and threatenings.
Dt 28:2 Dt 27:15 - Dt 27:26 Dt 29:20 Es 3:11 Gal 3:10

 16   in the city.
Dt 28:3 - Dt 28:14 Prv 3:33 Es 24:6 - Es 24:12 Es 43:28 Jr 9:11 Jr 26:6 Jr 44:22 Lm 1:1 Lm 2:11 - Lm 2:22 Lm 4:1 - Lm 4:13 Ml 2:2 Ml 4:6
in the field.
Dt 28:55 Gn 3:17 Gn 3:18 Gn 4:11 Gn 4:12 Gn 5:29 Gn 8:21 Gn 8:22 1Ro 17:1 1Ro 17:5 1Ro 17:12 Jr 14:2 - Jr 14:5 Jr 14:18 Lm 5:10 Jl 1:4 Jl 1:8 - Jl 1:18 Jl 2:3 Am 4:6 - Am 4:9 Ag 1:9 - Ag 1:11 Ag 2:16 Ag 2:17 Ml 3:9 - Ml 3:12

 17   Dt 28:5 Ps 69:22 Prv 1:32 Ag 1:6 Zc 5:3 Zc 5:4 Ml 2:2 Lc 16:25

 18   the fruit of thy body.
Dt 28:4 Dt 5:9 Jb 18:16 - Jb 18:19 Ps 109:9 - Ps 109:15 Lm 2:11 Lm 2:12 Lm 2:20 Os 9:11 - Os 9:14 Ml 2:3 Lc 23:29 Lc 23:30
thy land.
Dt 28:16 Lv 26:19 Lv 26:20 Lv 26:26 Hb 3:17

 19   Dt 28:6 Jgs 5:6 Jgs 5:7 2Ch 15:5

 20   send.
Ps 7:11 Ml 2:2
vexation.
1Sm 14:20 Ps 80:4 - Ps 80:16 Es 28:19 Es 30:17 Es 51:20 Es 66:15 Zc 14:12 Zc 14:13 Jn 3:36 1Ts 2:16
for to do. Heb. which thou wouldest do. until thou be.
Dt 4:26 Lv 26:31 - Lv 26:33 Lv 26:38 Jos 23:16

 21   Ex 5:3 Lv 26:25 Nb 14:12 Nb 16:46 - Nb 16:49 Nb 25:9 2Sm 24:15 Jr 15:2 Jr 16:4 Jr 21:6 Jr 21:7 Jr 24:10 Mt 26:7

 22   a consumption.
Lv 26:16 2Ch 6:28 Jr 14:12
sword. or, drought. blasting.
1Ro 8:37 Am 4:9 Ag 2:17

 23   The language here is remarkable: "Thy heaven;" that part of the atmosphere which was over Judea, instead of being replenished with aqueous vapours, should become, with respect to moisture, like brass: and consequently their land would become as hard as iron, and wholly incapable of cultivation; while the clouds might give showers in abundance, and the earth be moist and fruitful in other regions.
Lv 26:19 1Ro 17:1 1Ro 18:2 Jr 14:1 - Jr 14:6 Am 4:7

 24   make the rain. This was a natural consequence of their heaven's being brass, or yielding no rain; for the surface of the earth being reduced to powder, and frequently taken up by strong winds, would fall down in showers instead of rain. These showers of sand frequently, in the East, bury whole caravans.
Dt 28:12 Gn 19:24 Jb 18:15 - Jb 18:21 Es 5:24 Am 4:11

 25   cause thee.
Dt 28:7 Dt 32:30 Lv 26:17 Lv 26:36 Lv 26:37 Es 30:17
removed. Heb. for a removing.
Jr 15:2 - Jr 15:9 Jr 24:9 Jr 29:18 Jr 34:17 Ez 23:46 Lc 21:24

 26   1Sm 17:44 - 1Sm 17:46 Ps 79:1 - Ps 79:3 Es 34:3 Jr 7:33 Jr 8:1 Jr 16:4 Jr 19:7 Jr 34:20 Ez 39:17 - Ez 39:20

 27   the botch.
Dt 28:35 Ex 9:9 Ex 9:11 Ex 15:26
emerods.
1Sm 5:6 1Sm 5:9 1Sm 5:12 Ps 78:66
scab.
Lv 13:2 - Lv 13:8 Lv 21:20 Es 3:17

 28   1Sm 16:14 Ps 60:3 Es 6:9 Es 6:10 Es 19:11 - Es 19:17 Es 43:19 Jr 4:9 Ez 4:17 Lc 21:25 Lc 21:26 Act 13:41 2Ts 2:9 - 2Ts 2:11

 29   grope.
Jb 5:14 Jb 12:25 Ps 69:23 Ps 69:24 Es 59:10 Lm 5:17 Sop 1:17 Rm 11:7 - Rm 11:10 Rm 11:25 2Co 4:3 2Co 4:4
thou shalt be.
Jgs 3:14 Jgs 4:2 Jgs 4:3 Jgs 6:1 - Jgs 6:6 Jgs 10:8 Jgs 13:1 1Sm 13:5 - 1Sm 13:7 1Sm 13:19 - 1Sm 13:22 Nh 9:26 - Nh 9:29 Nh 9:37 Ps 106:40 - Ps 106:42 Lm 5:8 Act 21:24

 30   betroth.
Dt 20:6 Dt 20:7 Jb 31:10 Jr 8:10 Os 4:2
build.
Jb 3:18 Es 5:9 Es 5:10 Es 65:21 Es 65:22 Jr 12:13 Lm 5:2 Am 5:11 Mic 6:15 Sop 1:13
gather. Heb. profane, or, use it as common meat.
Dt 20:6
*marg:
Dt 28:30

 31   ox.
Jgs 6:1 Jb 1:14 Jb 1:15
be restored to thee. Heb. return to thee.


 32   sons. In several countries, particularly in Spain and Portugal, the children of the Jews have been taken from them, by order of the government, to be educated in the Popish faith.
Dt 28:18 Dt 28:41 Nb 21:29 2Ch 29:9 Nh 5:2 - Nh 5:5 Jr 15:7 - Jr 15:9 Jr 16:2 - Jr 16:4 Ez 24:25 Jl 3:6 Am 5:27 Mic 4:10
fail.
Dt 28:65 Jb 11:20 Jb 17:5 Ps 69:3 Ps 119:82 Ps 119:123 Es 38:14 Lm 2:11 Lm 4:17 Lm 5:17

 33   The fruit.
Dt 28:30 Dt 28:51 Lv 26:16 Nh 9:36 Nh 9:37 Es 1:7 Jr 5:17 Jr 8:16
thou shalt be.
Dt 28:29 Jr 4:17

 34   Dt 28:28 Dt 28:68 Es 33:14 Jr 25:15 Jr 25:16 Ap 16:10 Ap 16:11

 35   botch.
Dt 28:27 Jb 2:6 Jb 2:7 Es 1:6 Es 3:17 Es 3:24

 36   bring thee.
2Ro 17:4 - 2Ro 17:6 2Ro 24:12 - 2Ro 24:15 2Ro 25:6 2Ro 25:7 2Ro 25:11 2Ch 33:11 2Ch 36:6 2Ch 36:17 2Ch 36:20 Es 39:7 Jr 22:11 Jr 22:12 Jr 22:24 - Jr 22:27 Jr 24:8 - Jr 24:10 Jr 39:5 - Jr 39:7 Jr 52:8 - Jr 52:11 Lm 4:20 Ez 12:12 Ez 12:13
there shalt thou. The Israelites, who were carried captive by the Assyrians, and many of the Jews in Chaldea, were finally incorporated with the nations among whom they lived, and were given up to their idolatry. It is probable, however, that this refers to Jews being compelled, in Popish countries, to conceal their religion, and profess that of the Romish church.
Dt 28:64 Dt 4:28 Jr 16:13 Ez 20:32 Ez 20:33 Ez 20:39

 37   become.
Dt 28:28 Dt 29:22 - Dt 29:28 1Ro 9:7 1Ro 9:8 2Ch 7:20 Ps 44:13 Ps 44:14 Jr 24:9 Jr 25:9 Jl 2:17
*marg:
Dt 28:37 Zc 8:13
a proverb. The name of Jew has long been a proverbial mark of detestation and contempt among all the nations whither they have been dispersed, and is so to this day, whether among Christians, Mohmammedans, or Pagans.


 38   shalt carry.
Es 5:10 Mic 6:15 Ag 1:6
for the locust.
Ex 10:14 Ex 10:15 Jl 1:4 Jl 2:3 Jl 2:25 Am 4:9 Am 7:1 Am 7:2

 39   for the worms.
Jl 1:4 - Jl 1:7 Jl 2:2 - Jl 2:4 Jon 4:7

 40   anoint thyself.
Ps 23:5 Ps 104:15 Mic 6:15

 41   thou shalt not enjoy them. Heb. they shall not be thine. for.
Dt 28:32 2Ro 24:14 Lm 1:5

 42   thy trees.
Dt 28:38 Dt 28:39 Am 7:1 Am 7:2
consume. or, possess.


 43   Jgs 2:3 Jgs 2:11 - Jgs 2:15 Jgs 4:2 Jgs 4:3 Jgs 10:7 - Jgs 10:10 Jgs 14:4 Jgs 15:11 Jgs 15:12 1Sm 13:3 - 1Sm 13:7 1Sm 13:19 - 1Sm 13:23 2Ro 17:20 2Ro 17:23 2Ro 24:14 - 2Ro 24:16 Jn 18:31 Jn 19:15

 44   Dt 28:12 Dt 28:13 Lm 1:5

 45   Moreover.
Dt 28:5 Dt 28:15 Dt 29:20 Dt 29:21 Lv 26:28 2Ro 17:20 Prv 13:21 Es 1:20 Es 65:14 Es 65:15 Jr 24:9 Jr 24:10 Lm 2:15 - Lm 2:17 Ez 7:15 Ez 14:21
because.
Dt 11:27 Dt 11:28 Ps 119:21 Jr 7:22 - Jr 7:25

 46   a sign.
Dt 28:37 Dt 28:59 Dt 29:20 Dt 29:28 Es 8:18 Jr 19:8 Jr 25:18 Ez 14:8 Ez 23:32 Ez 23:33 Ez 36:20 1Co 10:11

 47   Dt 12:7 - Dt 12:12 Dt 16:11 Dt 32:13 - Dt 32:15 Nh 9:35 1Tm 6:17 - 1Tm 6:19

 48   serve.
2Ch 12:8 Nh 9:35 - Nh 9:37 Jr 5:19 Jr 17:4 Ez 17:3 Ez 17:7 Ez 17:12
in hunger.
Jr 44:17 Jr 44:18 Jr 44:22 Jr 44:27 Lm 5:2 - Lm 5:6 Ez 4:16 Ez 4:17
a yoke.
Es 47:6 Jr 27:12 Jr 27:13 Jr 28:13 Jr 28:14 Mt 11:29

 49   bring a nation. Though the Chaldeans are frequently described under the figure of an eagle, yet these verses especially predict the desolations brought on the Jews by the Romans; who came from a country far more distant than Chaldea; whose conquests were as rapid as the eagle's flight, and whose standard bore this very figure; who spake a language to which the Jews were then entire strangers, being wholly unlike the Hebrew, of which the Chaldee was merely a dialect; whose appearance and victories were terrible; and whose yoke was a yoke of iron; and the havoc which they made tremendous.
Nb 24:24 Es 5:26 - Es 5:30 Jr 5:15 - Jr 5:17 Dn 6:22 Dn 6:23 Dn 9:26 Hb 1:6 Hb 1:7 Lc 19:43 Lc 19:44
as the eagle.
Jr 4:13 Jr 48:40 Jr 49:22 Lm 4:19 Ez 17:3 Ez 17:12 Os 8:1 Mt 24:28
a nation whose.
Jr 5:15 Ez 3:6 1Co 14:21
understand. Heb. hear.


 50   of fierce countenance. Heb. strong of face.
Prv 7:13 Ecc 8:1
; *margins
Dn 7:7 Dn 8:23
shall not.
2Ch 36:17 Es 47:6 Os 13:16 Lc 19:44 Lc 21:23 Lc 21:24

 51   the fruit.
Dt 28:33 Es 1:7 Es 62:8
which also.
Lv 26:26 Jr 15:13 Jr 17:3 Ez 12:19 Hb 3:16 Hb 3:17

 52   Lv 26:25 2Ro 17:1 - 2Ro 17:6 2Ro 18:13 2Ro 24:10 2Ro 24:11 2Ro 25:1 - 2Ro 25:4 Es 1:7 Es 62:8 Jr 21:4 - Jr 21:7 Jr 37:8 Jr 39:1 - Jr 39:3 Jr 52:4 - Jr 52:7 Ez 4:1 - Ez 4:8 Dn 9:26 Zc 12:2 Zc 14:2 Mt 22:7 Mt 24:15 Mt 24:16 Lc 19:43 Lc 19:44 Lc 21:20 - Lc 21:24

 53   the fruit.
Dt 28:18 Dt 28:55 Dt 28:57 Lv 26:29 2Ro 6:28 2Ro 6:29 Jr 19:9 Lm 2:20 Lm 4:10 Ez 5:10 Mt 24:19
body. Heb. belly.


 54   his eye.
Dt 15:9 Prv 23:6 Prv 28:22 Mt 20:15
and toward. The Roman armies at length besieged, sacked, and utterly desolated Jerusalem: and during this seige, the famine was so extreme, that even rich and delicate persons, both men and women, ate their own children, and concealed the horrible repast, lest others should tear it from them! "Women snatched the food out of the very mouths of their husbands, and sons of their fathers, and (what is most miserable) mothers of their infants." "In every house, if there appeared any semblance of food, a battle ensued, and the dearest friends and relations fought with one another; snatching away the miserable provisions of life." "A woman distinguished by birth and wealth, after she had been plundered by the tyrants (or soldiers) of all her possessions, boiling her own sucking child, ate half of him, and concealing the other half, reserved it for another time!"
Dt 13:6 2Sm 12:3 Mic 7:5
his children.
Ps 103:13 Es 49:15 Mt 7:9 - Mt 7:11 Lc 11:11 - Lc 11:13

 55   in the seige.
Jr 5:10 Jr 34:2 Jr 52:6

 56   and delicate.
Es 3:16 Lm 4:3 - Lm 4:6
her eye shall be evil.
Dt 28:54

 57   young one. Heb. after-birth. cometh out.
Gn 49:10 Es 49:15
for she shall.
Dt 28:53

 58   If thou wilt.
Dt 28:15 Lv 26:14 Lv 26:15 Jr 7:9 Jr 7:10 Jr 7:26 - Jr 7:28
fear this glorious.
Dt 6:13 Ex 3:14 Ex 3:15 Ex 6:2 Ex 6:3 Ex 20:2 Ex 34:5 - Ex 34:7 Nh 9:5 Ps 50:7 Ps 72:19 Ps 83:18 Es 41:10 Es 42:8 Jr 5:12 Mt 10:28 Heb 10:30 Heb 10:31 Heb 12:28 Heb 12:29

 59   Dt 28:46 Dt 29:20 - Dt 29:28 Dt 31:17 Dt 31:18 Dt 32:22 Dt 32:26 1Ro 9:7 - 1Ro 9:9 1Ro 16:3 1Ro 16:4 Lm 1:9 Lm 1:12 Lm 4:12 Dn 9:12 Os 3:4 Mc 13:19

 60   Dt 7:15 Ex 15:26

 61   bring upon thee. Heb. cause to ascend.
Dt 28:61

 62   few in number. In the seige of Jerusalem there died 1,100,000 persons, and more than 90,000 were carried captive; and, having afterwards provoked the Romans by their crimes and rebellions, they persecuted them nearly to extirpation; to which, if the tens of thousands which were slaughtered year after year in every country be added, it appears wonderful that there were any remains left.
Dt 4:27 Lv 26:22 2Ro 13:7 2Ro 24:14 Nh 7:4 Es 1:9 Es 24:6 Jr 42:2 Jr 52:28 - Jr 52:30 Mc 13:20 Rm 9:27 - Rm 9:29
as the stars.
Dt 10:22 Nh 9:23 Rm 9:27

 63   rejoiced over.
Dt 30:9 Es 62:5 Jr 32:41 Mic 7:18 Sop 3:17 Lc 15:6 - Lc 15:10 Lc 15:23 Lc 15:24 Lc 15:32
rejoice over.
Prv 1:26 Es 1:24 Ez 5:13 Ez 33:11
plucked from.
Dt 7:22
*marg:
Dt 28:63 Jr 12:14 Jr 12:15 Jr 18:7 Jr 24:6 Jr 31:28 Jr 31:40 Jr 42:10 Dn 7:8

 64   scatter.
Dt 4:27 Dt 4:28 Lv 26:33 Nh 1:8 Jr 16:13 Jr 50:17 Ez 11:16 Ez 11:17 Lc 21:24
there thou shalt.
Dt 28:36 Jr 16:13

 65   among. After the conquest of their country by the Romans, Hadrian, by a public decree, ratified by the senate, forbad any Jew to come even within sight of Judea; and hence they were dispersed over every quarter of the globe, where they found no alleviation or respite from misery. In no country are they treated as denizens; all suspect them as enemies, and behave to them as aliens; if they do not, as had been too frequently the case, harass, oppress, and persecute them, even unto death.
shalt thou.
Gn 8:9 Es 57:21 Ez 5:12 - Ez 5:17 Ez 20:32 - Ez 20:35 Am 9:4 Am 9:9 Am 9:10
the Lord.
Lv 26:36 Es 51:17 Ez 12:18 Ez 12:19 Os 11:10 Os 11:11 Hb 3:16 Lc 21:26
failing of eyes.
Lv 26:16 Es 65:14 Lm 3:65 Mt 24:8 Rm 11:10

 66   Dt 28:67 Lm 1:13 Heb 10:27 Ap 6:15 - Ap 6:17

 67   Dt 28:34 Jb 7:3 Jb 7:4 Ap 9:6

 68   bring thee into Egypt. This verse seems especially to point out an event, which took place subsequently to the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus, and the desolation made by Hadrian. Numbers of the captives were sent by sea into Egypt (as well as into other countries), and sold for slaves at a vile price, and for the meanest offices; and many thousands were left to perish from want; for the multitude was so great, that purchasers could not be found for them all at any price!
Dt 17:16 Jr 43:7 Jr 44:12 Os 8:13 Os 9:3
there ye shall.
Ex 20:2 Nh 5:8 Est 7:4 Jl 3:3 - Jl 3:7 Lc 21:24