Deuteronomy 28:32

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

Cross References

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.

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.”

Job 17:5

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

Job 31:8

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

Lamentations 4:17

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

Lamentations 5:17

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

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,

Joel 3:6

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

Amos 5:27

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

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.

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.

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 28:18

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

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.

Deuteronomy 28:41

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

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.