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Deuteronomy 28:47 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: King James Version

" Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; "

Deuteronomy 28:47

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45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:

46 And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.

47 Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;

48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

49 The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;

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Psalms 100:2

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"Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing."

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"For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works."

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1 Timothy 6:17-19

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Deuteronomy 28:1

"And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:"

Deuteronomy 28:2

"And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God."

Deuteronomy 28:3

"Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field."

Deuteronomy 28:4

"Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep."

Deuteronomy 28:5

"Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store."

Deuteronomy 28:6

"Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out."

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