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Deuteronomy 28:47 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Because you didn’t serve the LORD your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things; "

Deuteronomy 28:47

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45 All these curses will come on you, and will pursue you and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you didn’t listen to the LORD your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you.

46 They will be for a sign and for a wonder to you and to your offspring forever.

47 Because you didn’t serve the LORD your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;

48 therefore you will serve your enemies whom the LORD sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

49 The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies: a nation whose language you will not understand,

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"when you disobey the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow down yourselves to them. Then the LORD’s anger will be kindled against you, and you will perish quickly from off the good land which he has given to you.”"

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Deuteronomy 28:1

"It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the LORD your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth."

Deuteronomy 28:2

"All these blessings will come upon you, and overtake you, if you listen to the LORD your God’s voice."

Deuteronomy 28:3

"You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field."

Deuteronomy 28:4

"You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock."

Deuteronomy 28:5

"Your basket and your kneading trough shall be blessed."

Deuteronomy 28:6

"You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed when you go out."

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