Deuteronomy 28:32

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all the day; and it shall not be in the power of your hand to prevent it.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 29:9

For lo, 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

He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property, the eyes of his 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 with watching for thy salvation, and for the fulfilment of thy righteous promise.

Psalm 119:82

My eyes fail with watching for thy promise; I ask, “When wilt thou 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 thou 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 maidens and my young men have gone into captivity.

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes are spent with weeping; my soul is in tumult; my heart is poured out in grief because of the destruction of the daughter 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; in our watching we watched for a nation which could not save.

Lamentations 5:17

For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim,

Ezekiel 24:25

“And you, son of man, on the day when I take from them their stronghold, their joy and glory, the delight of their eyes and their heart's desire, and also their sons and 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 work evil upon their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Micah 4:10

Writhe and groan, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now you shall go forth from the city and dwell in the open country; you shall go to Babylon. There you shall be rescued, there the Lord will redeem you from the hand 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 body, and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.

Deuteronomy 28:31

Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat of it; your ass shall be violently taken away before your face, and shall not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and there shall be no one to help you.

Deuteronomy 28:41

You shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity.

Deuteronomy 28:65

And among these nations you shall find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of your foot; but the Lord will give you there a trembling heart, and failing eyes, and a languishing soul;