Deuteronomy 28:32 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³² Your sons and daughters shall be given to another people while you look on; you will strain your eyes looking for them all day but be powerless to do anything.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³² Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³² Your sons and daughters shall be given to another people, and your eyes shall look and fail with longing for them all the day; and there shall be no power in your hands to prevent it. [Fulfilled in II Chron. 29:9.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³² Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people; and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day: and there shall be nought in the power of thy hand.

Common English Bible

³² Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation while you watch; you will long for them constantly, but you won’t have the power to do anything about it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³² May your sons and your daughters be handed over to another people, as your eyes watch and languish at the sight of them throughout the day, and may there be no strength in your hand.

Deuteronomy 28:32 Cross References

Joel 3:6

You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, removing them far from their own border.

Deuteronomy 28:41

You shall have sons and daughters, but they shall not remain yours, for they shall go into captivity.

2 Chronicles 29:9

Our fathers have fallen by the sword and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

Micah 4:10

Writhe and groan, O daughter Zion, like a woman in labor, for now you shall go forth from the city and camp in the open country; you shall go to Babylon. There you shall be rescued; there the Lord will redeem you from the hands of your enemies.

Amos 5:27

therefore I will take you into exile beyond Damascus, says the Lord, whose name is the God of hosts.

Ezekiel 24:25

And you, mortal, on the day when I take from them their stronghold, their joy and glory, the delight of their eyes and their heart’s affection, and also their sons and their daughters,

Lamentations 5:17

Because of this our hearts are sick; because of these things our eyes have grown dim:

Lamentations 4:17

Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; we were watching eagerly for a nation that could not save.

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes are spent with weeping; my stomach churns; my bile is poured out on the ground because of the destruction of my people, because infants and babes faint in the streets of the city.

Isaiah 38:14

Like a swallow or a crane I clamor; I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security!

Psalm 119:123

My eyes fail from watching for your salvation and for the fulfillment of your righteous promise.

Psalm 119:82

My eyes fail with watching for your promise; I ask, “When will you comfort me?”

Psalm 69:3

I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.

Job 17:5

Those who denounce friends for reward— the eyes of their children will fail.

Job 11:20

But the eyes of the wicked will fail; all way of escape will be lost to them, and their hope is to breathe their last.”

Deuteronomy 28:65

Among those nations you shall find no ease, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a languishing spirit.

Deuteronomy 28:18

“Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle and the issue of your flock.

Numbers 21:29

Woe to you, O Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh! He has made his sons fugitives and his daughters captives to an Amorite king, Sihon.

Deuteronomy 28:31

Your ox shall be butchered before your eyes, but you shall not eat of it. Your donkey shall be stolen in front of you and shall not be restored to you. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies without anyone to help you.

Lamentations 1:18

The Lord is in the right, for I have rebelled against his word; but hear, all you peoples, and behold my suffering; my young women and young men have gone into captivity.

Micah 2:1

Woe to those who devise wickedness and evil deeds on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in their power.

Job 31:8

then let me sow and another eat, and let what grows for me be rooted out.