Deuteronomy 28:47-49

International Standard Version

Servitude and Bondage

⁴⁷ “Because you didn’t serve the Lord your God joyfully and wholeheartedly,^[a] despite the abundance of everything you have, ⁴⁸ you’ll serve your enemies whom the Lord your God will send against you. You will serve in famine and in drought,^[b] in nakedness, and in lack of everything. They’ll^[c] set a yoke of iron upon your neck until they^[d] have exterminated you.

⁴⁹ “The Lord will raise a distant nation against you from the other side of the earth. Swooping down like a vulture,