Deuteronomy 28:32

Modern English Version

Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look and fail with longing for them all day long, but there will be nothing you can do.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 29:9

For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and now our sons, daughters, and wives are in captivity for all this.

Job 11:20

But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and they will not escape, and their hope will be as the giving up of breath.”

Job 17:5

He who speaks flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children will fail.

Job 31:8

then let me sow, but let another eat; yes, let my offspring be rooted out.

Psalm 119:123

My eyes fail from watching for Your salvation, and for the fulfillment of Your righteous word.

Psalm 119:82

My eyes fail from reading Your word, saying, “When will You comfort me?”

Psalm 69:3

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

Isaiah 38:14

Like a crane or a swallow, so I twitter; I mourn as a dove; my eyes look wistfully upward. O  Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

Lamentations 1:18

The Lord is in the right, for I have rebelled against His commandment. Hear now, all peoples, and see my sorrow; my virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes fail with tears, my spirit is greatly troubled; my bile is poured on the ground because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

Lamentations 4:17

Our eyes failed us, watching vainly for help; in our watchtowers we watched for a nation that could not save us.

Lamentations 5:17

For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes grow dim;

Ezekiel 24:25

As for you, son of man, shall it not be on the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that on which they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,

Joel 3:6

You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their border.

Amos 5:27

as I drive you away into exile beyond Damascus, says the Lord, whose name is the God of Hosts.

Micah 2:1

Woe to those who conceive wickedness, to those who devise evil on their beds! At morning’s light they execute it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Micah 4:10

Writhe and bring forth, daughter of Zion, like the woman in labor, because now you will go forth from the city and reside in the field, and you will come to Babylon. There you will be rescued; there the Lord will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.

Numbers 21:29

Woe to you, Moab! You have perished, O people of Chemosh! He has made his sons fugitives, and his daughters captives, to Sihon king of the Amorites.

Deuteronomy 28:18

Your offspring will be cursed along with the fruit of your land, the produce of your herd, and the flocks of your sheep.

Deuteronomy 28:31

Your ox will be killed before your eyes, and you will not eat of it. Your donkey will be violently taken away from before you and will not be returned to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to rescue them.

Deuteronomy 28:41

You will give birth to sons and daughters, but you will not enjoy them, for they will go into captivity.

Deuteronomy 28:65

Among these nations you will find no ease, nor will the sole of your foot have rest. But there the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul.