Deuteronomy 28:15-20

Ver. 15-20. But—if thou wilt not hearken— To these promises of prosperity if they obeyed the laws, the most dreadful menaces of adversity are opposed in case they disobeyed them; a general disappointment, misery, and calamity, reaching to all ranks of people, and affecting all affairs, public and private: scarcity, want, and untimely death, affecting private families; and a defeat of all public enterprises and counsels making the whole nation miserable. By the word cursing, in the 20th verse, is meant, in general, a blasting of all their designs: the LXX render it, famine and want. The second word, vexation, signifies disquiet and perplexity of mind; and the third, rebuke, relates to such chastisements as should give them a severe check or rebuke for their sins. See Psalms 39:11.