Lord, look and consider to whom you have done this. Should women eat their own children, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary?
Deuteronomy 28:18 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Your offspring will be cursed, and your land’s produce, the young of your herds, and the newborn of your flocks. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, of your land, of the increase of your cattle and the young of your sheep. American Standard Version (1901) Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, the increase of thy cattle, and the young of thy flock. Common English Bible Your own fertility, your soil’s produce, your cattle’s young, and your flock’s offspring will be cursed. Catholic Public Domain Version Cursed shall be the fruit of your loins, and the fruit of your land, the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Cursed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground: the herds of thy oxen, and the flocks of thy sheep. |
Lord, look and consider to whom you have done this. Should women eat their own children, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary?
When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and ration out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.
Though the fig tree does not bud and there is no fruit on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the flocks disappear from the pen and there are no herds in the stalls,
‘Look, I am going to rebuke your descendants, and I will spread animal waste over your faces, the waste from your festival sacrifices, and you will be taken away with it.
Your offspring will be blessed, and your land’s produce, and the offspring of your livestock, including the young of your herds and the newborn of your flocks.
Do not bow in worship to them, and do not serve them, because I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ iniquity on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me,