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61 Also any illness and any plague[a] that is not written in the scroll of this law, he shall bring them, Yahweh, upon you until you are destroyed. 62 And you shall remain only a few people[b] in place of the fact you were formerly as the stars of heaven as far as number is concerned, because you did not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God. 63 And then[c] as Yahweh delighted over you to make you prosperous[d] to make you numerous, so Yahweh shall delight over you to exterminate you[e] and to destroy you, and so you shall be plucked from the land that you are going there to take possession of it.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:61 Or “each illness and each plague”
  2. Deuteronomy 28:62 Literally “with people of few”
  3. Deuteronomy 28:63 Literally “And it will happen”
  4. Deuteronomy 28:63 Literally “to do good with you”
  5. Deuteronomy 28:63 Or “to cause you to perish”

61 The Lord will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law,(A) until you are destroyed.(B) 62 You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky(C) will be left but few(D) in number, because you did not obey the Lord your God. 63 Just as it pleased(E) the Lord to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please(F) him to ruin and destroy you.(G) You will be uprooted(H) from the land you are entering to possess.

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