Add parallel Print Page Options

50 a nation of stern appearance that will have no regard for the elderly or pity for the young. 51 They[a] will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed. They will not leave you with any grain, new wine, olive oil, calves of your herds,[b] or lambs of your flocks[c] until they have destroyed you. 52 They will besiege all of your villages[d] until all of your high and fortified walls collapse—those in which you put your confidence throughout the land. They will besiege all your villages throughout the land the Lord your God has given you.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:51 tn Heb “it” (so NRSV), a collective singular referring to the invading nation (several times in this verse and v. 52).
  2. Deuteronomy 28:51 tn Heb “increase of herds.”
  3. Deuteronomy 28:51 tn Heb “growth of flocks.”
  4. Deuteronomy 28:52 tn Heb “gates,” also in vv. 55, 57.

50 a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old(A) or pity for the young. 51 They will devour the young of your livestock and the crops of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine(B) or olive oil,(C) nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined.(D) 52 They will lay siege(E) to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the Lord your God is giving you.(F)

Read full chapter