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47 Because[a] of the fact that you did not serve Yahweh your God with joy and with gladness of heart for the abundance of everything, 48 then you shall serve your enemies, whom Yahweh will send against you under conditions of famine, in thirst, in nakedness, and in a lack of everything; and he shall place[b] a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.[c] 49 Yahweh will raise up against you a nation from far off, from the end of the earth, attacking as the eagle swoops down, a nation whose language you will not understand,[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:47 Literally “Under”
  2. Deuteronomy 28:48 Literally “give”
  3. Deuteronomy 28:48 Literally “until his destroying of you”
  4. Deuteronomy 28:49 Literally “a nation who not you will understand its language”