Deuteronomy 28:15 Cross References - DouayRheims

¹⁵ But if thou wilt not hear the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep and to do all his commandments and ceremonies, which I command thee this day, all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.

¹⁴ But if you will not hear me, nor do all my commandments: ¹⁵ If you despise my laws, and contemn my judgments so as not to do those things which are appointed by me, and to make void my covenant: ¹⁶ I also will do these things to you. I will quickly visit you with poverty, and burning heat, which shall waste your eyes, and consume your lives. You shall sow your seed in vain, which shall be devoured by your enemies. ¹⁷ I will set my face against you, and you shall fall down before your enemies: and shall be made subject to them that hate you. You shall flee when no man pursueth you. ¹⁸ But if you will not yet for all this obey me: I will chastise you seven times more for your sins. ¹⁹ And I will break the pride of your stubbornness: and I will make to you the heaven above as iron, and the earth as brass. ²⁰ Your labour shall be spent in vain: the ground shall not bring forth her increase: nor the trees yield their fruit. ²¹ If you walk contrary to me, and will not hearken to me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you for your sins. ²² And I will send in upon you the beasts of the field, to destroy you and your cattle, and make you few in number: and that your highways may be desolate. ²³ And if even so you will not amend, but will walk contrary to me: ²⁴ I also will walk contrary to you, and will strike you seven times for your sins. ²⁵ And I will bring in upon you the sword that shall avenge my covenant. And when you shall flee into the cities, I will send the pestilence in the midst of you. And you shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies, ²⁶ After I shall have broken the staff of your bread: so that ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and give it out by weight: and you shall eat, and shall not be filled, ²⁷ But if you will not for all this hearken to me, but will walk against me ²⁸ I will also go against you with opposite fury: and I will chastise you with seven plagues for your sins, ²⁹ So that you shall eat the flesh of your sons and of your daughters. ³⁰ I will destroy your high places, and break your idols. You shall fall among the ruins of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you. ³¹ Insomuch that I will bring your cities to be a wilderness: and I will make your sanctuaries desolate: and will receive no more your sweet odours. ³² And I will destroy your land: and your enemies shall be astonished at it, when they shall be the inhabitants thereof. ³³ And I will scatter you among the Gentiles: and I will draw out the sword after you. And your land shall be desert, and your cities destroyed. ³⁴ Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths all the days of her desolation. When you shall be ³⁵ In the enemy's land, she shall keep a sabbath, and rest in the sabbaths of her desolation: because she did not rest in your sabbaths, when you dwelt therein. ³⁶ And as to them that shall remain of you I will send fear in their hearts in the countries of their enemies. The sound of a flying leaf shall terrify them: and they shall flee as it were from the sword. They shall fall, when no man pursueth them. ³⁷ And they shall every one fall upon their brethren as fleeing from wars: none of you shall dare to resist your enemies. ³⁸ You shall perish among the Gentiles: and an enemy's land shall consume you. ³⁹ And if of them also some remain, they shall pine away in their iniquities, in the land of their enemies: and they shall be afflicted for the sins of their fathers, and their own. ⁴⁰ Until they confess their iniquities, and the iniquities of their ancestors, whereby they have transgressed against me, and walked contrary unto me. ⁴¹ Therefore I also will walk against them, and bring them into their enemies' land until their uncircumcised mind be ashamed. Then shall they pray for their sins. ⁴² And I will remember my covenant, that I made with Jacob, and Isaac, and Abraham. I will remember also the land: ⁴³ Which when she shall be left by them, shall enjoy her sabbaths, being desolate for them. But they shall pray for their sins, because they rejected my judgments, and despised my laws. ⁴⁴ And yet for all that when they were in the land of their enemies, I did not cast them off altogether. Neither did I so despise them that they should be quite consumed: and I should make void my covenant with them. For I am the Lord their God. ⁴⁵ And I will remember my former covenant, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, in the sight of the Gentiles, to be their God. I am the Lord. ^{46 (26:45)} These are the judgments, and precepts, and laws, which the Lord gave between him and the children of Israel, in mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses.

¹⁵ Cursed be the man that maketh a graven and molten thing, the abomination of the Lord, the work of the hands of artificers, and shall put it in a secret place: and all the people shall answer and say: Amen. ¹⁶ Cursed be he that honoureth not his father and mother: and all the people shall say: Amen. ¹⁷ Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmarks: and all the people shall say: Amen. ¹⁸ Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of his way: and all the people shall say: Amen. ¹⁹ Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, of the fatherless and the widow: and all the people shall say: Amen. ²⁰ Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife, and uncovereth his bed: and all the people shall say: Amen. ²¹ Cursed be he that lieth with any beast: and all the people shall say: Amen. ²² Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or of his mother: and all the people shall say: Amen. ²³ Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law: and all the people shall say: Amen. ²⁴ Cursed be he that secretly killeth his neighbour: and all the people shall say: Amen. ²⁵ Cursed be he that taketh gifts, to slay an innocent person: and all the people shall say: Amen. ²⁶ Cursed be he that abideth not in the words of this law, and fulfilleth them not in work: and all the people shall say: Amen.

² And all these blessings shall come upon thee and overtake thee: yet so if thou hear his precepts.

²⁰ And the Lord should not forgive him: but his wrath and jealousy against that man should be exceedingly enkindled at that time, and all the curses that are written in this volume should light upon him: and the Lord should blot out his name from under heaven,

¹⁵ Therefore as he hath fulfilled in deed, what he promised, and all things prosperous have come: so will he bring upon you all the evils he hath threatened, till he take you away and destroy you from off this excellent land, which he hath given you,

¹¹ Woe to the wicked unto evil: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

¹⁷ Ain. The Lord hath done that which he purposed, he hath fulfilled his word, which he commanded in the days of old: he hath destroyed, and hath not spared, and he hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee, and hath set up the horn of thy adversaries.

¹¹ And all Israel have transgressed thy law, and have turned away from hearing thy voice, and the malediction, and the curse, which is written in the book of Moses, the servant of God, is fallen upon us, because we have sinned against him. ¹² And he hath confirmed his words which he spoke against us, and against our princes that judged us, that he would bring in upon us a great evil, such as never was under all the heaven, according to that which hath been done in Jerusalem. ¹³ As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: and we entreated not thy face, O Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and think on thy truth.

² If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, saith the Lord of hosts: I will send poverty upon you, and will curse your blessings, yea I will curse them, because you have not laid it to heart.

⁸ But to them that are contentious and who obey not the truth but give credit to iniquity, wrath and indignation. ⁹ Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that worketh evil: of the Jew first, and also of the Greek.

¹⁰ For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: Cursed is every one that abideth, not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.