Deuteronomy 28:32

God's Word

You will watch with your own eyes as your sons and daughters are given to another nation. You will strain your eyes looking for them all day long, but there will be nothing you can do.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 29:9

Our fathers were killed in battle, and our sons, daughters, and wives are prisoners because of this.

Job 11:20

But the wicked will lose their eyesight. Their escape route will be closed. Their only hope is to take their last breath.”

Job 17:5

(Whoever turns in friends to get their property should have his children’s eyesight fail.)

Job 31:8

⌞then⌟ let someone else eat what I have planted, and let my crops be uprooted.

Psalm 119:123

My eyes are strained from looking for you to save me and from looking for the fulfillment of your righteous promise.

Psalm 119:82

My eyes have become strained from looking for your promise. I ask, “When will you comfort me?”

Psalm 69:3

I am exhausted from crying for help. My throat is hoarse. My eyes are strained ⌞from⌟ looking for my God.

Isaiah 38:14

I chirped like swallows and cranes. I cooed like doves. My eyes were tired from looking up to heaven. I’ve suffered miserably, O Lord! Please help me!

Lamentations 1:18

“The Lord is right in what he did, because I rebelled against his word. Please listen, all you people, and look at my pain. My young women and young men have gone into captivity.

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes are worn out with tears. My stomach is churning. My heart is poured out on the ground because of the destruction of my people. Little children and infants faint in the city streets.

Lamentations 4:17

“We are still straining our eyes, trying in vain to find help. We waited and waited for a nation that didn’t save us.

Lamentations 5:17

This is why we feel sick. This is why our eyes see less and less.

Ezekiel 24:25

“Son of man, on that day I will take their stronghold away from them. It makes them happy and proud. It is their hearts’ desire and the thing they love the most. I will also take away their sons and daughters.

Joel 3:6

You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks. That way you could send them far away from their land.

Amos 5:27

I will send you into exile beyond Damascus, says the Lord, whose name is the God of Armies.

Micah 2:1

How horrible it will be for those who invent trouble and work out plans for disaster while in bed. When the morning dawns, they carry out their plans because they are able to.

Micah 4:10

Daughter of Zion, writhe in pain and groan like a woman in labor. Now you will leave the city, live in the open fields, and go to Babylon. There you will be rescued. There the Lord will reclaim you from your enemies.

Numbers 21:29

How horrible it is for you, Moab! You are destroyed, you people of the god Chemosh. Chemosh let his sons become refugees and he let his daughters become prisoners of King Sihon of the Amorites.

Deuteronomy 28:18

You will be cursed. You will have few children. Your land will have few crops. Your cattle will be cursed with few calves, and your flocks will have few lambs and kids.

Deuteronomy 28:31

Your ox will be butchered as you watch, but you won’t eat any of its meat. You will watch as your donkey is stolen from you, but you’ll never get it back. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue it.

Deuteronomy 28:41

You will have sons and daughters, but you won’t be able to keep them because they will be taken as prisoners of war.

Deuteronomy 28:65

Among those nations you will find no peace, no place to call your own. There the Lord will give you an unsettled mind, failing eyesight, and despair.