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21 The Lord will cause epidemics to cling to you until he has removed you from your land that you are going to possess.
22 The Lord will strike you with wasting diseases, fever, and inflammation, with intense heat and with drought,[a] and with blight and with mildew.[b] They will pursue you until you perish.
23 The skies over your head will become bronze, and the earth under you will become iron.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:22 The translation follows an alternate reading of the Hebrew. The main Hebrew reading is sword.
  2. Deuteronomy 28:22 The identification of some of these plagues is uncertain.

21 The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess.(A) 22 The Lord will strike you with wasting disease,(B) with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought,(C) with blight(D) and mildew, which will plague(E) you until you perish.(F) 23 The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron.(G)

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