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Máh Ŏ́c Bốn Toâq Pỡ Cũai Ca Trĩh

¹“Khân anhia trĩh Yiang Sursĩ, la Ncháu anhia, cớp táq puai tanoang tapứng máh ŏ́c cứq atỡng anhia tâng tangái nâi, ki án ễ yỗn anhia cỡt sốt toâr hỡn tễ máh tỗp canŏ́h tâng cốc cutễq nâi. ²Cóq anhia trĩh Yiang Sursĩ, la Ncháu anhia, chơ máh ŏ́c bốn nâi ễ toâq pỡ anhia, la neq:
³“Yiang Sursĩ ễ satốh ŏ́c bốn yỗn máh vil, dếh nia sarái anhia.
⁴“Yiang Sursĩ ễ satốh ŏ́c bốn yỗn anhia bữn con châu sa‑ữi, bữn palâi tễ sarnóh toau clữi tâc clữi cha, cớp bữn ntroŏq cớp cữu tadát cuaq.
⁵“Yiang Sursĩ ễ satốh ŏ́c bốn yỗn sarnóh anhia bữn sa‑ữi palâi dŏq bữn poân racu poân sanic.
⁶“Yiang Sursĩ ễ satốh ŏ́c bốn yỗn dũ ranáq anhia táq.
⁷“Yiang Sursĩ ễ pupứt nheq cũai ca par‑ũal anhia; toâq anhia mut chíl, tỗp alới lứq cỡt pê. Alới mut ễ chíl anhia ống muoi rana sâng, ma alới lúh pláh chap nheq.
⁸“Yiang Sursĩ, la Ncháu anhia, ễ satốh ŏ́c bốn yỗn máh ranáq anhia táq, cớp yỗn anhia bữn saro poân loau. Án ễ satốh ŏ́c bốn tâng cutễq ca án ễ chiau yỗn tỗp anhia.
⁹“Khân anhia trĩh Yiang Sursĩ, la Ncháu anhia, cớp táq puai dũ ŏ́c án patâp, chơ án roap anhia cỡt cũai proai án, samoât án khoiq ữq dŏq. ¹⁰Chơ dũ tỗp cũai tâng cốc cutễq nâi bữn hữm Yiang Sursĩ khoiq rưoh tỗp anhia yỗn cỡt cũai proai án, cớp tỗp alới ngcŏh anhia. ¹¹Yiang Sursĩ lứq yỗn anhia bữn con châu sa‑ữi, bữn charán sa‑ữi, cớp bữn moang palâi o tâng cutễq ca án khoiq par‑ữq cớp achúc achiac anhia ễ chiau yỗn anhia. ¹²Án lứq yỗn dỡq mia sễng tễ paloŏng pĩeiq catữ táq ranáq, cớp án satốh ŏ́c bốn yỗn máh ranáq anhia táq. Sa‑ữi tỗp cũai ễ toâq voaq tễ anhia, ma anhia tỡ bữn voaq tễ alới. ¹³Yiang Sursĩ, la Ncháu anhia, lứq táq yỗn anhia cỡt cũai sốt máh tỗp canŏ́h, ma án tỡ bữn yỗn anhia cỡt cũai sarlỗi.⚓ Khân anhia trĩh dũ ŏ́c patâp ca cứq atỡng anhia tâng tangái nâi, anhia lứq cỡt sốc níc, cớp ranáq ntrớu anhia táq lứq pân cỡt ranáq ki. ¹⁴Ma chỗi táq claiq tễ santoiq patâp nâi, tỡ la cucốh sang máh yiang canŏ́h.”

Môi-se Atỡng Cóng Tễ Ŏ́c Tỡ Bữn Trĩh

¹⁵“Khân anhia tỡ bữn trĩh santoiq Yiang Sursĩ, la Ncháu anhia, atỡng, cớp anhia tỡ bữn noap ĩt máh ŏ́c án patâp cớp máh phễp rit ca cứq atỡng anhia tâng tangái nâi, chơ máh ŏ́c bap nâi lứq toâq pỡ anhia neq:
¹⁶“Yiang Sursĩ lứq pupap máh vil viang cớp nia sarái anhia.
¹⁷“Yiang Sursĩ lứq pupap máh palâi cớp sana tễ sarnóh anhia chóh.
¹⁸“Yiang Sursĩ lứq pupap yỗn anhia bữn con bĩq náq sâng, bữn palâi bĩq lứq, dếh ntroŏq cớp cữu tâng cuaq la bĩq lứq tê.
¹⁹“Yiang Sursĩ lứq pupap dũ ranáq anhia táq.
²⁰“Khân anhia táq ranáq sâuq cớp calỡih táh Yiang Sursĩ, án lứq dững atoâq ŏ́c cuchĩt pứt, ŏ́c ratáh ratai, cớp ŏ́c túh coat sa‑ữi ramứh pỡ anhia, toau anhia cỡt cuchĩt pứt thréc nheq. ²¹Ncháu lứq dững atoâq níc ŏ́c a‑ĩ tacóh pỡ anhia, toau tỡ bữn noau khlâiq noâng tâng cloong cutễq ca anhia ễ mut cheng ndỡm sanua. ²²Yiang Sursĩ lứq táq anhia na ỗn ca manoaq tớt chu manoaq, a‑ĩ u-áih, cớp a‑ĩ tacóh hỡ. Ma hỡn tễ nâi, án noâng yỗn cỡt cahễng, cớp cuyal cutâu toâq yỗn talốh nheq crơng sarnóh anhia chóh. Ŏ́c rúng pứt nâi lứq toâq níc pỡ anhia toau anhia cuchĩt nheq. ²³Paloŏng tỡ bữn mia, cớp cutễq cỡt khỗ lêng samoât tac. ²⁴Án yỗn rapuq dững príl cutễq cớp príl chũah pláih loah mia toâq pupứt anhia.
²⁵“Yiang Sursĩ lứq yỗn cũai par‑ũal anhia bữn riap. Anhia ễ mut chíl alới ống muoi coah sâng, ma lứq anhia lúh pláh chap nheq, cớp máh cũai tâng cốc cutễq nâi cỡt pứt sarméq toâq sâng tễ ranáq ca toâq pỡ anhia. ²⁶Toâq anhia cuchĩt, sac anhia lứq cỡt crơng sana calang cloc cớp charán arưih, cớp ŏ́q cũai atũih máh charán ki. ²⁷Yiang Sursĩ lứq táq yỗn anhia cỡt satễng, samoât án khoiq táq chóq cũai Ê-yip-tô. Án táq yỗn tỗ chác anhia cỡt bớc rapoâq rahỡ tháng. Chũop tỗ chác anhia bữn moang calễng bớc cớp cỡt nsoiq, cớp toâq anhia tahâu la tỡ bữn bán. ²⁸Yiang Sursĩ lứq táq yỗn anhia cỡt samoât cũai yúh, cũai moat sũt, cớp cỡt clŏ́c clu. ²⁹Anhia lứq tayáh pỡq toah-toah tơ-tơ samoât cũai moat sũt ca pỡq bo mandang toâng, cớp chuchơr rana ma tỡ tamóh. Ranáq anhia táq tỡ bữn cỡt kia ntrớu. Pĩeiq noau padâm anhia cớp pũr níc, ma tỡ bữn noau rachuai anhia.
³⁰“Anhia dŏq voan cumũr, ma cũai canŏ́h ễn ĩt án táq lacuoi. Anhia táq dống, ma ŏ́q ỡt. Anhia chóh voar nho, ma ŏ́q cha palâi. ³¹Máh charán anhia noau kiac choâng moat anhia toâp, ma anhia ŏ́q cha sâiq. Máh aséh dễn anhia noau tếc aloŏh choâng moat anhia toâp, ma alới tỡ bữn culáh loah yỗn anhia. Máh cữu anhia pĩeiq cũai par‑ũal poq achu nheq, ma tỡ bữn noau rachuai anhia. ³²Con samiang con mansễm anhia noau dững yỗn cỡt sũl cũai canŏ́h. Cu rangái anhia ỡt acoan níc alới píh chu toau pứt ŏ́c ngcuang. ³³Cũai cruang canŏ́h lứq toâq cheng ĩt sarnóh anhia chóh lakéh lứq. Ma anhia ŏ́q bữn cha loâng. Hỡn tễ ki, alới noâng padâm anhia ntâng lứq. ³⁴Máh túh coat anhia chĩuq nâi táq yỗn anhia cỡt samoât yúh. ³⁵Yiang Sursĩ táq yỗn nluang nlu anhia cỡt bớc nheq, cớp tỡ nai cỡt bán. Satễng cỡt chũop nheq tỗ chác anhia, tễ plỡ toau toâq ayững.
³⁶“Yiang Sursĩ ễ dững anhia cớp puo anhia chu cruang canŏ́h, la ntốq ca anhia cớp achúc achiac anhia tỡ nai pỡq tễ nhũang. Tâng ntốq ki, anhia cóq sang yiang ca noau táq toâq aluang cớp toâq tamáu. ³⁷Yiang Sursĩ lứq yỗn anhia cỡt parsáng-parsaiq cớp ỡt dũ cruang, cớp máh cũai proai cỡt santar toâq sâng tễ ranáq ca toâq pỡ anhia; chơ alới cacháng ayê anhia.
³⁸“Anhia lứq trứh cuplốq sa‑ữi, ma bữn palâi bĩq sâng, yuaq lam toâq cha nheq máh sarnóh ki. ³⁹Anhia lứq chóh voar nho cớp nhêng salĩq án, ma anhia ŏ́q ĩt palâi, tỡ la nguaiq blŏ́ng nho, yuaq prưi toâq cáiq cha nheq voar ki. ⁴⁰Nỡm o‑li‑vê lứq cỡt dũ ntốq tâng cutễq anhia, ma anhia ŏ́q pát dỡq án, yuaq palâi án saroi nheq. ⁴¹Anhia lứq bữn máh con samiang mansễm, ma anhia ŏ́c bữn ndỡm, yuaq noau cỗp nheq alới. ⁴²Bữn mpông toâq cha nỡm aluang cớp sarnóh anhia chóh toau cỡt rúng nheq.
⁴³“Máh cũai cruang canŏ́h ca ỡt cớp anhia, alới bữn chớc cỡt sốt achỗn, ma chớc anhia cỡt ralíh asễng. ⁴⁴Alới bữn práq yỗn anhia voaq. Ma anhia ŏ́q práq yỗn alới voaq. Toâq parsốt tháng, alới ễn cỡt cũai sốt anhia.
⁴⁵“Máh ranáq rúng pứt nâi lứq toâq pỡ anhia toau anhia cỡt pứt nheq, yuaq anhia tỡ bữn trĩh Yiang Sursĩ, la Ncháu anhia, cớp tỡ bữn noap máh phễp rit cớp ŏ́c patâp án yỗn anhia. ⁴⁶Máh ranáq ki cỡt tếc apáh tễ ranáq Yiang Sursĩ táq chóq anhia cớp con châu anhia mantái níc. ⁴⁷Yiang Sursĩ khoiq satốh ŏ́c bốn dũ ramứh yỗn anhia, ma anhia tỡ bữn bũi pahỡm ễ táq ranáq án. ⁴⁸Yuaq ngkíq, anhia cóq cỡt sũl cũai ca par‑ũal anhia, la cũai ca Yiang Sursĩ yỗn toâq chíl anhia. Anhia lứq cỡt panhieih khlac, ŏ́q dỡq, ỡt mu rariat, cớp ŏ́q ntrớu tháng. Yiang Sursĩ padâm anhia ntâng lứq toau anhia cỡt pứt nheq. ⁴⁹Yiang Sursĩ ễ dững muoi cruang toâq tễ pứp cốc cutễq nâi dŏq chíl anhia; cũai ki táq ntỡng parnai ca anhia tỡ bữn dáng. Alới ễ mut cutốp anhia, samoât calang crức pâr pachớt asễng cỗp prán. ⁵⁰Cũai ki tachoât lứq cớp ŏ́q mứt sarũiq chóq cũai canŏ́h, tam cũai thâu tỡ la póng. ⁵¹Alới lứq cha nheq ntroŏq cớp palâi tễ sarnóh anhia chóh, ma anhia cuchĩt khlac. Alới tỡ bữn dŏq loah yỗn anhia saro, blŏ́ng nho, dỡq nsễng o‑li‑vê, ntroŏq, tỡ la cữu; chơ anhia cuchĩt thréc nheq. ⁵²Alới toâq rachíl cớp dũ vil tâng cutễq Yiang Sursĩ, Ncháu anhia, ntôm ễ chiau yỗn anhia, dếh vil ca bữn viang khâm sarỡih hỡ, la ntốq ca anhia chanchớm têq ỡt poâng; alới toâq talốh nheq.
⁵³“Toâq cũai par‑ũal crŏ́q ỡt lavíng dŏq chũop nheq vil anhia, anhia cỡt pứt nheq ŏ́c ngcuang, yuaq ŏ́q sana cha toau anhia cha dếh con ca Yiang Sursĩ, la Ncháu anhia, khoiq yỗn anhia bữn. ⁵⁴Bo alới crŏ́q ỡt lavíng nheq vil, dếh cũai ca bữn mứt lamên la crỡng crơng sana toau cha con bữm, yuaq ŏ́q crơng sana. ⁵⁵Ma án tỡ bữn tampễq yỗn cũai canŏ́h cha tê, tam ai, tỡ la lacuoi ca án ayooq, tỡ la con ca noâng tamoong. ^56-57Dếh mansễm ca bữn mứt lamên cớp tỡ nai pỡq chu léq, la táq machớng ki tê. Toâq cũai par‑ũal crŏ́q ỡt lavíng chũop vil mansễm ki ỡt, chơ án cỡt cũai ŏ́q ŏ́c ngcuang, yuaq ŏ́q sana cha, toau án tooq cha con án mbỡiq sễt, cha dếh yooh carnễn hỡ. Ma án tỡ bữn tampễq yỗn cayac ca án ayooq cha tê, dếh con ca noâng tamoong la án tỡ bữn yỗn tê.
⁵⁸“Khân anhia tỡ bữn trĩh samoât samơi máh santoiq Yiang Sursĩ patâp ca khoiq chĩc dŏq tâng pơ tâm saráq nâi, ma anhia tỡ bữn yám noap ramứh Yiang Sursĩ, Ncháu anhia, la ramứh ca bữn chớc lứq cớp o yỗn ngcŏh. ⁵⁹Chơ án lứq dững atoâq ỗn ca ntâng lứq pỡ anhia cớp con châu anhia, ma anhia tahâu la tỡ bữn bán. ⁶⁰Ncháu lứq dững atoâq ỗn pỡ anhia, samoât anhia khoiq hữm tâng cruang Ê-yip-tô chơ, ma anhia tỡ têq bán noâng. ⁶¹Án noâng dững atoâq pỡ anhia ŏ́c rang‑ĩ cớp ỗn sa‑ữi ramứh ca tỡ bữn chĩc dŏq tâng Tâm Saráq Phễp Rit Yiang Sursĩ, toau anhia ma cuchĩt thréc nheq. ⁶²Tam anhia rứh rưong sa‑ữi samoât mantỗr tâng paloŏng, ma noâng bĩq náq sâng têq tamoong, cỗ anhia tỡ bữn trĩh Yiang Sursĩ, la Ncháu anhia. ⁶³Machớng Yiang Sursĩ khoiq sâng bũi pahỡm táq yỗn anhia bữn dũ ramứh o, cớp bữn cũai rứh rưong sa‑ữi, máh ki tê án sâng bũi pahỡm táq yỗn anhia cỡt ralốh-ralái. Anhia cỡt samoât noau sadŏ́h aloŏh tễ cutễq ca anhia ntôm mut cheng ndỡm.
⁶⁴“Yiang Sursĩ lứq táq yỗn anhia cỡt pláh chũop ntốq tâng mpứng dĩ tỗp canŏ́h, noap tễ pứp nâi toau toâq pứp ki tâng cốc cutễq nâi. Chơ anhia cóq cucốh sang máh yiang ca noau táq toâq aluang cớp toâq tamáu, yiang ca anhia cớp achúc achiac anhia tỡ nai cucốh sang. ⁶⁵Toâq anhia ỡt tâng máh ntốq ki, anhia tỡ bữn tamóh noâng ŏ́c ien khễ, cớp tỡ bữn ntốq aléq noâng cỡt khong anhia; Yiang Sursĩ táq yỗn anhia bữn moang ŏ́c túh arức, ŏ́c clơng ngcŏh, cớp pứt nheq ŏ́c ngcuang. ⁶⁶Dỡi tamoong anhia ỡt tâng mpứng dĩ ŏ́c croŏq. Ŏ́c ngcŏh ễ clũom anhia dếh tangái dếh sadâu, cớp anhia sâng ngcŏh lứq cuchĩt. ⁶⁷Anhia cỡt ngcŏh dũ ramứh ca moat anhia hữm. Dũ tarưp anhia ễq yỗn sadâu chái; ma toâq sadâu, anhia ễq yỗn poang dớh. ⁶⁸Yiang Sursĩ ễ asuoi loah anhia pỡ cruang Ê-yip-tô na tuoc, tam án khoiq atỡng anhia chỗi píh noâng pỡ ki. Tâng ntốq ki, anhia pau ễ chếq tỗ anhia cỡt sũl yỗn cũai par‑ũal, ma tỡ bữn noau ễ chỡng.”

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Blessings on Obedience

¹“Now it shall come to pass, ⚓if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the Lord 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 the Lord your God:
³⚓“Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be⚓in the country.
⁴“Blessed shall be⚓the fruit of your body, the produce of your ground and the increase of your herds, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.
⁵“Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
⁶⚓“Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.
⁷“The Lord⚓will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.
⁸“The Lord will ⚓command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you ⚓set your hand, and He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
⁹⚓“The Lord will establish you as a holy people to Himself, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in His ways. ¹⁰Then all peoples of the earth shall see that you are ⚓called by the name of the Lord, and they shall be ⚓afraid of you. ¹¹And ⚓the Lord will grant you plenty of goods, in the fruit of your body, in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your ground, in the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you. ¹²The Lord 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 the Lord will make ⚓you the head and not the tail; you shall be above only, and not be beneath, if you heed the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, and are careful to observe them. ¹⁴⚓So you shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right or the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

Curses on Disobedience

¹⁵“But it shall come to pass, ⚓if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
¹⁶“Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country.
¹⁷“Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
¹⁸“Cursed shall be the fruit of your body and the produce of your land, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.
¹⁹“Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.
²⁰“The Lord will send on you ⚓cursing, ⚓confusion, and ⚓rebuke in all that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the wickedness of your doings in which you have forsaken Me. ²¹The Lord will make the plague cling to you until He has consumed you from the land which you are going to possess. ²²⚓The Lord will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with severe burning fever, with the sword, with ⚓scorching, and with mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish. ²³And ⚓your heavens which are over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you shall be iron. ²⁴The Lord will change the rain of your land to powder and dust; from the heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.
²⁵⚓“The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them; and you shall become troublesome to all the kingdoms of the earth. ²⁶⚓Your carcasses shall be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and no one shall frighten them away. ²⁷The Lord will strike you with ⚓the boils of Egypt, with ⚓tumors, with the scab, and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed. ²⁸The Lord will strike you with madness and blindness and ⚓confusion 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 continually, and no one shall save you.
³⁰⚓“You 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 gather its grapes. 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 strength in your ⚓hand. ³³A nation whom you have not known shall eat ⚓the fruit of your land and the produce of your labor, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually. ³⁴So you shall be driven mad because of the sight which your eyes see. ³⁵The Lord 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.
³⁶“The Lord 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 nations where the Lord will drive you.
³⁸⚓“You 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 consume all your trees and the produce of your land.
⁴³“The alien who is 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.
⁴⁵“Moreover all these curses shall come upon you and pursue and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you. ⁴⁶And they shall be upon ⚓you for a sign and a wonder, and on your descendants forever.
⁴⁷⚓“Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and gladness of heart, ⚓for the abundance of everything, ⁴⁸therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom the Lord will send against you, in ⚓hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He ⚓will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you. ⁴⁹⚓The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, ⚓as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand, ⁵⁰a nation of fierce countenance, ⚓which does not respect the elderly nor show favor to the young. ⁵¹And they shall eat the increase of your livestock and the produce of your land, until you are destroyed; they shall not leave you grain or new wine or oil, or the increase of your cattle or the offspring of your flocks, until they have destroyed you.
⁵²“They 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 the Lord your God has given you. ⁵³⚓You shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and your daughters whom the Lord your God has given you, in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you. ⁵⁴The sensitive and very refined man among you ⚓will be hostile 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 any of them the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you at all your gates. ⁵⁶The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her delicateness and sensitivity, will refuse to the husband of her bosom, and to her son and her daughter, ⁵⁷her placenta which comes out ⚓from between her feet and her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of everything in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you at all your gates.
⁵⁸“If you do not carefully observe all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear ⚓this glorious and awesome name, THE Lord YOUR GOD, ⁵⁹then the Lord will bring upon you and your descendants ⚓extraordinary plagues—great and prolonged plagues—and serious and prolonged sicknesses. ⁶⁰Moreover He will bring back on you all ⚓the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you. ⁶¹Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in this Book of the Law, will the Lord bring upon you until you are destroyed. 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 the Lord your God. ⁶³And it shall be, that just as the Lord⚓rejoiced over you to do you good and multiply you, so the Lord⚓will rejoice over you to destroy you and bring you to nothing; and you shall be ⚓plucked from off the land which you go to possess.
⁶⁴“Then the Lord⚓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 the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and ⚓anguish of soul. ⁶⁶Your life shall hang in doubt before you; you shall fear day and night, and have no assurance of life. ⁶⁷⚓In 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.
⁶⁸“And the Lord⚓will take you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said to you, ⚓‘You shall never see it again.’ And there you shall be offered for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”