And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the
voice of the LORD thy God, to observe [and] to do all his commandments
which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will (a) set thee
on high above all nations of the earth:
(a) He will make you the most excellent of all p... [ Continue Reading ]
And all these blessings shall come on thee, and (b) overtake thee, if
thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
(b) When you think you are forsaken.... [ Continue Reading ]
Blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the (c) city, and blessed [shalt] thou
[be] in the field.
(c) You will live richly.... [ Continue Reading ]
Blessed [shall be] the fruit (d) of thy body, and the fruit of thy
ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the
flocks of thy sheep.
(d) Your children and succession.... [ Continue Reading ]
Blessed [shalt] thou [be] when thou (e) comest in, and blessed [shalt]
thou [be] when thou goest out.
(e) All your enterprises will have good success.... [ Continue Reading ]
The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be
smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and
flee before thee (f) seven ways.
(f) Meaning many ways.... [ Continue Reading ]
The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and
in all that thou settest thine (g) hand unto; and he shall bless thee
in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
(g) God will bless us, if we do our duty and are not idle.... [ Continue Reading ]
And all people of the earth shall see that thou art (h) called by the
name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.
(h) In that he is your God, and you are his people.... [ Continue Reading ]
The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the (i) heaven to
give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work
of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt
not borrow.
(i) For nothing in the earth is profitable but when God sends his
blessings from h... [ Continue Reading ]
And thy heaven that [is] over thy head shall be (k) brass, and the
earth that is under thee [shall be] iron.
(k) It will give you no more moisture than if it were of brass.... [ Continue Reading ]
The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou
shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them:
and shalt be (l) removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
(i) Some read, you shall be a terror and fear, when they hear how God
has plagued you.... [ Continue Reading ]
And thy (m) carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto
the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray [them] away.
(m) You will be cursed both in your life and in your death: for the
burial is a testimony of the resurrection a sign you will lack because
of your wickedness.... [ Continue Reading ]
And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the (n) blind gropeth in darkness,
and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only
oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save [thee].
(n) In things most evident and clear you will lack discretion and
judgment.... [ Continue Reading ]
Thy sons and thy daughters [shall be] given unto another people, and
thine eyes (o) shall look, and fail [with longing] for them all the
day long: and [there shall be] no might in thine hand.
(o) When they will return from their captivity.... [ Continue Reading ]
The LORD shall bring thee, and thy (p) king which thou shalt set over
thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and
there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.
(p) As he did Manasseh, Joiakim, Zedekiah and others.... [ Continue Reading ]
All thy trees and fruit of thy land (q) shall the locust consume.
(q) Under one kind he contains all the vermin, which destroy the fruit
of the land: and this is an evident token of God's curse.... [ Continue Reading ]
The tender and delicate (s) woman among you, which would not adventure
to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and
tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and
toward her son, and toward her daughter,
(s) As came to pass in the days of Joram king of Is... [ Continue Reading ]
And toward her (t) young one that cometh out from between her feet,
and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them
for want of all [things] secretly in the siege and straitness,
wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
(t) Hunger will so bite her, that she will... [ Continue Reading ]
If thou wilt not observe to do (u) all the words of this law that are
written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful
name, THE LORD THY GOD;
(u) For he that offends in one, is guilty of all, (James 2:10)... [ Continue Reading ]
Also every sickness, and every plague, which [is] not (x) written in
the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou
be destroyed.
(x) Declaring, that God has infinite means to plague the wicked,
besides those that are ordinary or written.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the LORD shall (y) scatter thee among all people, from the one end
of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other
gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, [even] wood and
stone.
(y) Signifying that it is a singular gift from God to be in a place
where we may wors... [ Continue Reading ]
And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with (z) ships, by the
way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and
there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen,
and no man shall buy [you].
(z) Because they were unmindful of that miracle, when the sea mad... [ Continue Reading ]