Deuteronomy 28:15-68

The Cursings That Will Result If They Are Not Faithful To The Covenant (Deuteronomy 28:15).

But once they wander outside the sphere of the covenant only cursings can await them. They will have put themselves in the same place as that already taken by those whom they had cursed in Deuteronomy 27:15. Those examples were but samples of a wider Law, a Law which they would now have broken. Thus they have by their ‘Amen' themselves acknowledged that it will be right for Yahweh to curse them. And the cursing will be terrible. Great privileges renounced can only produce great judgments.

Attempts have been made to parallel these curses with those in various treaty forms which have been discovered, but while there is general resemblance none parallel exactly and all that can really be said is that they all share a common pattern. Moses would have seen many examples of such treaties in his youth.