Deuteronomy 28

vehayah im-shamoa tishma beqol Adonai elohekha lishmor la'asot et-kol-mitsvotayw asher anokhi metsavvekha hayyom unetanekha Adonai elohekha elyon al kol-goye ha'arets

Now, if you obey the ETERNAL your God, to observe faithfully all the commandments that I enjoin upon you this day, the ETERNAL your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

uva'u alekha kol-habberakhot ha'elleh vehissigukha ki tishma beqol Adonai elohekha

All these blessings shall come upon you and take effect, if you will but heed the word of the ETERNAL your God:

barukh attah ba'ir uvarukh attah bassadeh

Blessed shall you be in the city and blessed shall you be in the country.

barukh peri-vitnekha uferi admatekha uferi vehemtekha shegar alafekha ve'ashterot tsonekha

Blessed shall be your issue from the womb, your produce from the soil, and the offspring of your cattle, the calving of your herd and the lambing of your flock.

barukh tanakha umishartekha

Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

barukh attah bevo'ekha uvarukh attah betsetekha

Blessed shall you be in your comings and blessed shall you be in your goings.

yitten Adonai et-oyevekha haqqamim alekha niggafim lefanekha bederekh ekhad yetse'u elekha uveshivah derakhim yanusu lefanekha

GOD will put to rout before you the enemies who attack you; they will march out against you by a single road, but flee from you by many roads.

yetsav Adonai ittekha et-habberakhah ba'asamekha uvekhol mishlakh yadekha uverakhkha ba'arets asher-Adonai elohekha noten lakh

GOD will ordain blessings for you upon your barns and upon all your undertakings: you will be blessed in the land that the ETERNAL your God is giving you.

yeqimekha Adonai lo le'am qadosh ka'asher nishba-lakh ki tishmor et-mitsvot Adonai elohekha vehalakhta bidrakhayw

As the ETERNAL swore to you, you will be established as a holy people if you keep the commandments of the ETERNAL your God, walking in those ways.

vera'u kol-amme ha'arets ki shem Adonai niqra alekha veyare'u mimmekka

And all the peoples of the earth shall see that GOD’s name is proclaimed over you, and they shall stand in fear of you.

vehotirkha Adonai letovah bifri vitnekha uvifri vehemtekha uvifri admatekha al ha'adamah asher nishba Adonai la'avotekha latet lakh

GOD will give you abounding prosperity in your issue from the womb, the offspring of your cattle, and the produce of your soil in the land that GOD swore to your fathers to assign to you.

yiftakh Adonai lekha et-otsaro hattov et-hashamayim latet metar-artsekha be'itto ulevarekh et kol-ma'aseh yadekha vehilvita goyim rabbim ve'attah lo tilveh

GOD will open for you that bounteous store, the heavens, to provide rain for your land in season and to bless all your undertakings. You will be creditor to many nations, but debtor to none.

unetanekha Adonai lerosh velo lezanav vehayita raq lemalah velo tihyeh lemattah ki-tishma el-mitsvot Adonai elohekha asher anokhi metsavvekha hayyom lishmor vela'asot

GOD will make you the head, not the tail; you will always be at the top and never at the bottom—if only you obey and faithfully observe the commandments of the ETERNAL your God that I enjoin upon you this day,

velo tasur mikkol-haddevarim asher anokhi metsavveh etkhem hayyom yamin usemovl lalekhet akhare elohim akherim le'ovdam

and do not deviate to the right or to the left from any of the commandments that I enjoin upon you this day and turn to the worship of other gods.

vehayah im-lo tishma beqol Adonai elohekha lishmor la'asot et-kol-mitsvotayw vekhuqqotayw asher anokhi metsavvekha hayyom uva'u alekha kol-haqqelalot ha'elleh vehissigukha

But if you do not obey the ETERNAL your God to observe faithfully all the commandments and laws that I enjoin upon you this day, all these curses shall come upon you and take effect:

arur attah ba'ir ve'arur attah bassadeh

Cursed shall you be in the city and cursed shall you be in the country.

arur tanakha umishartekha

Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

arur peri-vitnekha uferi admatekha shegar alafekha ve'ashterot tsonekha

Cursed shall be your issue from the womb and your produce from the soil, the calving of your herd and the lambing of your flock.

arur attah bevo'ekha ve'arur attah betsetekha

Cursed shall you be in your comings and cursed shall you be in your goings.

yeshallakh Adonai bekha et-hamme'erah et-hammehumah ve'et-hammigeret bekhol-mishlakh yadekha asher ta'aseh ad hishamedkha ve'ad-avodkha maher mippene roa ma'alalekha asher azavtani

GOD will let loose against you calamity, panic, and frustration in all the enterprises you undertake, so that you shall soon be utterly wiped out because of your evildoing in forsaking Me.

yadbeq Adonai bekha et-haddaver ad kalloto otekha me'al ha'adamah asher-attah va-shammah lerishtah

GOD will make pestilence cling to you, thus putting an end to you in the land that you are entering to possess.

yakkekhah Adonai bashakhefet uvaqqaddakhat uvaddalleqet uvakharkhur uvakherev uvashiddafon uvayyeraqon uredafukha ad ovdekha

GOD will strike you with consumption, fever, and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew; they shall hound you until you perish.

vehayu shamekha asher al-roshekha nekhoshet veha'arets asher-takhtekha barzel

The skies above your head shall be copper and the earth under you iron.

yitten Adonai et-metar artsekha avaq ve'afar min-hashamayim yered alekha ad hishamedakh

GOD will make the rain of your land dust, and sand shall drop on you from the sky, until you are wiped out.

yittenkha Adonai niggaf lifne oyevekha bederekh ekhad tetse elayw uveshivah derakhim tanus lefanayw vehayita leza'avah lekhol mamlekhot ha'arets

GOD will put you to rout before your enemies; you shall march out against them by a single road, but flee from them by many roads; and you shall become a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

vehayetah nivlatekha lema'akhal lekhol-of hashamayim ulevehemat ha'arets ve'en makharid

Your carcasses shall become food for all the birds of the sky and all the animals of the earth, with none to frighten them off.

yakkekhah Adonai bishkhin mitsrayim (vvflym) [uvattekhorim] uvaggarav uvekhares asher lo-tukhal leherafe

GOD will strike you with the Egyptian inflammation, with hemorrhoids, boil-scars, and itch, from which you shall never recover.

yakkekhah Adonai beshigga'on uve'ivvaron uvetimhon levav

GOD will strike you with madness, blindness, and dismay.

vehayita memashesh batsohorayim ka'asher yemashesh ha'ivver ba'afelah velo tatsliakh et-derakhekha vehayita akh ashuq vegazul kol-hayyamim ve'en moshia

You shall grope at noon as the blind grope in the dark; you shall not prosper in your ventures, but shall be constantly abused and robbed, with none to give help.

isha te'ares ve'ish akher (yshglnh) [yishkavennah] bayit tivneh velo-teshev bo kerem titta velo tekhallelennu

If you pay the bride-price for a wife, another man shall enjoy her. If you build a house, you shall not live in it. If you plant a vineyard, you shall not harvest it.

shorekha tavuakh le'enekha velo tokhal mimmennu khamorekha gazul millefanekha velo yashuv lakh tsonekha netunot le'oyevekha ve'en lekha moshia

Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat of it; your donkey shall be seized in front of you, and it shall not be returned to you; your flock shall be delivered to your enemies, with none to help you.

banekha uvenotekha netunim le'am akher ve'enekha ro'ot vekhalot alehem kol-hayyom ve'en le'el yadekha

Your sons and daughters shall be delivered to another people, while you look on; and your eyes shall strain for them constantly, but you shall be helpless.

peri admatekha vekhol-yegi'akha yokhal am asher lo-yada'eta vehayita raq ashuq veratsuts kol-hayyamim

A people you do not know shall eat up the produce of your soil and all your gains; you shall be abused and downtrodden continually,

vehayita meshugga mimmareh enekha asher tireh

until you are driven mad by what your eyes behold.

yakkekhah Adonai bishkhin ra al-habbirkayim ve'al-hashoqayim asher lo-tukhal leherafe mikkaf raglekha ve'ad qodqodekha

GOD will afflict you at the knees and thighs with a severe inflammation, from which you shall never recover—from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

yolekh Adonai otekha ve'et-malkekha asher taqim alekha el-goy asher lo-yadata attah va'avotekha ve'avadta sham elohim akherim ets va'aven

GOD will drive you, and the king you have set over you, to a nation unknown to you or your ancestors, where you shall serve other gods, of wood and stone.

vehayita leshammah lemashal velishninah bekhol ha'ammim asher-yenahegkha Adonai shammah

You shall be a consternation, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples to which GOD will drive you.

zera rav totsi hassadeh ume'at te'esof ki yakhselennu ha'arbeh

Though you take much seed out to the field, you shall gather in little, for the locust shall consume it.

keramim titta ve'avadeta veyayin lo-tishteh velo te'egor ki tokhelennu hattola'at

Though you plant vineyards and till them, you shall have no wine to drink or store, for the worm shall devour them.

zetim yihyu lekha bekhol-gevulekha veshemen lo tasukh ki yishal zetekha

Though you have olive trees throughout your territory, you shall have no oil for anointment, for your olives shall drop off.

banim uvanot tolid velo-yihyu lakh ki yelekhu bashevi

Though you beget sons and daughters, they shall not remain with you, for they shall go into captivity.

kol-etsekha uferi admatekha yeyaresh hatselatsal

The cricket shall take over all the trees and produce of your land.

hagger asher beqirbekha ya'aleh alekha malah ma'elah ve'attah tered mattah mattah

The strangers in your midst shall rise above you higher and higher, while you sink lower and lower:

hu yalvekha ve'attah lo talvennu hu yihyeh lerosh ve'attah tihyeh lezanav

they shall be your creditors, but you shall not be theirs; they shall be the head and you the tail.

uva'u alekha kol-haqqelalot ha'elleh uredafukha vehissigukha ad hishamedakh ki-lo shamata beqol Adonai elohekha lishmor mitsvotayw vekhuqqotayw asher tsivvakh

All these curses shall befall you; they shall pursue you and overtake you, until you are wiped out, because you did not heed the ETERNAL your God and keep the commandments and laws enjoined upon you.

vehayu vekha le'ot ulemofet uvezarakha ad-olam

They shall serve as signs and proofs against you and your offspring for all time.

takhat asher lo-avadta et-Adonai elohekha besimkhah uvetuv levav merov kol

Because you would not serve the ETERNAL your God in joy and gladness over the abundance of everything,

ve'avadta et-oyevekha asher yeshallekhennu Adonai bakh bera'av uvetsama uve'erom uvekhoser kol venatan ol barzel al-tsavvarekha ad hishmido otakh

you shall have to serve—in hunger and thirst, naked and lacking everything—the enemies whom GOD will let loose against you. An iron yoke will be put upon your neck until you are wiped out.

yissa Adonai alekha goy merakhoq miqtseh ha'arets ka'asher yideh hannasher goy asher lo-tishma leshono

GOD will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, that will swoop down like the eagle—a nation whose language you do not understand,

goy az panim asher lo-yissa fanim lezaqen vena'ar lo yakhon

a ruthless nation, that will show the old no regard and the young no mercy.

ve'akhal peri vehemtekha uferi-admatekha ad hishamedakh asher lo-yashir lekha dagan tirosh veyitshar shegar alafekha ve'ashterot tsonekha ad ha'avido otakh

It shall devour the offspring of your cattle and the produce of your soil, until you have been wiped out, leaving you nothing of new grain, wine, or oil, of the calving of your herds and the lambing of your flocks, until it has brought you to ruin.

vehetsar lekha bekhol-she'arekha ad redet khomotekha haggevohot vehabbetsurot asher attah boteakh bahen bekhol-artsekha vehetsar lekha bekhol-she'arekha bekhol-artsekha asher natan Adonai elohekha lakh

It shall shut you up in all your towns throughout your land until every mighty, towering wall in which you trust has come down. And when you are shut up in all your towns throughout your land that the ETERNAL your God has assigned to you,

ve'akhalta feri-vitnekha besar banekha uvenotekha asher natan-lekha Adonai elohekha bematsor uvematsoq asher-yatsiq lekha oyevekha

you shall eat your own issue, the flesh of your sons and daughters that the ETERNAL your God has assigned to you, because of the desperate straits to which your enemy shall reduce you.

ha'ish harakh bekha vehe'anog me'od tera eno ve'akhiv uve'eshet kheqo uveyeter banayw asher yotir

The man who is most tender and fastidious among you shall be too mean to his brother and his mate and the children he has spared

mittet le'akhad mehem mibbesar banayw asher yokhel mibbeli hishir-lo kol bematsor uvematsoq asher yatsiq lekha oyivkha bekhol-she'arekha

to share with any of them the flesh of the children that he eats, because he has nothing else left as a result of the desperate straits to which your enemy shall reduce you in all your towns.

harakkah vekha veha'anuggah asher lo-nissetah khaf-raglah hatseg al-ha'arets mehitanneg umerokh tera enah be'ish kheqah uvivnah uvevittah

And she who is most tender and dainty among you, so tender and dainty that she would never venture to set a foot on the ground, shall begrudge her mate, and her son and her daughter,

uveshilyatah hayyotset mibben ragleha uvevaneha asher teled ki-tokhelem bekhoser-kol bassater bematsor uvematsoq asher yatsiq lekha oyivkha bisharekha

the afterbirth that issues from between her legs and the babies she bears; she shall eat them secretly, because of utter want, in the desperate straits to which your enemy shall reduce you in your towns.

im-lo tishmor la'asot et-kol-divre hattorah hazzot hakketuvim bassefer hazzeh leyirah et-hashem hannikhbad vehannora hazzeh et Adonai elohekha

If you fail to observe faithfully all the terms of this Teaching that are written in this book, to reverence this honored and awesome Name, the ETERNAL your God,

vehifla Adonai et-makkotekha ve'et makkot zarekha makkot gedolot vene'emanot vokholayim ra'im vene'emanim

the ETERNAL will inflict extraordinary plagues upon you and your offspring, strange and lasting plagues, malignant and chronic diseases—

veheshiv bekha et kol-madveh mitsrayim asher yagoreta mippenehem vedavequ bakh

bringing back upon you all the sicknesses of Egypt that you dreaded so, and they shall cling to you.

gam kol-kholi vekhol-makkah asher lo khatuv besefer hattorah hazzot yalem Adonai alekha ad hishamedakh

Moreover, GOD will bring upon you all the other diseases and plagues that are not mentioned in this book of Teaching, until you are wiped out.

venishartem bimte me'at takhat asher heyitem kekhokheve hashamayim larov ki-lo shamata beqol Adonai elohekha

You shall be left a scant few, after having been as numerous as the stars in the skies, because you did not heed the command of the ETERNAL your God.

vehayah ka'asher-sas Adonai alekhem lehetiv etkhem uleharbot etkhem ken yasis Adonai alekhem leha'avid etkhem ulehashmid etkhem venissakhtem me'al ha'adamah asher-attah va-shammah lerishtah

And as GOD once delighted in making you prosperous and many, so will GOD now delight in causing you to perish and in wiping you out; you shall be torn from the land that you are about to enter and possess.

vehefitsekha Adonai bekhol-ha'ammim miqtseh ha'arets ve'ad-qetseh ha'arets ve'avadta sham elohim akherim asher lo-yadata attah va'avotekha ets va'aven

GOD will scatter you among all the peoples from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone, whom neither you nor your ancestors have experienced.

uvaggoyim hahem lo targia velo-yihyeh manoakh lekhaf-raglekha venatan Adonai lekha sham lev raggaz vekhilyon enayim veda'avon nafesh

Yet even among those nations you shall find no peace, nor shall your foot find a place to rest. GOD will give you there an anguished heart and eyes that pine and a despondent spirit.

vehayu khayyekha telu'im lekha minneged ufakhadta laylah veyomam velo ta'amin bekhayyekha

The life you face shall be precarious; you shall be in terror, night and day, with no assurance of survival.

babboqer tomar mi-yitten erev uva'erev tomar mi-yitten boqer mippakhad levavekha asher tifkhad umimmareh enekha asher tireh

In the morning you shall say, “If only it were evening!” and in the evening you shall say, “If only it were morning!”—because of what your heart shall dread and your eyes shall see.

veheshivekha Adonai mitsrayim bo'oniyyot badderekh asher amarti lekha lo-tosif od lirotah vehitmakkartem sham le'oyevekha la'avadim velishfakhot ve'en qoneh

GOD will send you back to Egypt in galleys, by a route that I told you you should not see again. There you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but none will buy.

elleh divre habberit asher-tsivvah Adonai et-mosheh likhrot et-bene yisra'el be'erets mo'av millevad habberit asher-karat ittam bekhorev

These are the terms of the covenant that GOD commanded Moses to conclude with the Israelites in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant that was made with them at Horeb.