"But if you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commands and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come and overtake you:

Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed.

You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

The LORD will make pestilence cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land you are entering to possess.

The sky above you will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.

The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

"The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, tumors, a festering rash, and scabies, from which you cannot be cured.

so that at noon you will grope as a blind man gropes in the dark. You will not be successful in anything you do. You will only be oppressed and robbed continually, and no one will help [you].

Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away from you and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will help you.

A people you don't know will eat your soil's produce and everything you have labored for. You will only be oppressed and crushed continually.

The LORD will afflict you on your knees and thighs with painful and incurable boils from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.

You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the peoples where the LORD will drive you.

You will plant and cultivate vineyards but not drink the wine or gather [the grapes], because worms will eat them.

You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will be taken prisoner.

The foreign resident among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink lower and lower.

"All these curses will come, pursue, and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the LORD your God and keep the commands and statutes He gave you.

Because you didn't serve the LORD your God with joy and a cheerful heart, even though [you had] an abundance of everything,

The LORD will bring a nation from far away, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down on you like an eagle, a nation whose language you don't understand,

They will eat the offspring of your livestock and your soil's produce until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine, oil, young of your herds, or newborn of your flocks until they cause you to perish.

"You will eat your children, the flesh of your sons and daughters the LORD your God has given you during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you.

refusing to share with any of them his children's flesh that he will eat because he has nothing left during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you in all your towns.

the afterbirth that comes out from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything [else] during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you within your gates.

He will bring extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.

The LORD will also inflict you with every sickness and plague not recorded in the book of this law, until you are destroyed.

Just as the LORD was glad to cause you to prosper and to multiply you, so He will also be glad to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You will be deported from the land you are entering to possess.

You will find no peace among those nations, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despondent spirit.

In the morning you will say, 'If only it were evening!' and in the evening you will say, 'If only it were morning!'-- because of the dread you will have in your heart and because of what you will see.

But they were disobedient and rebelled against You. They flung Your law behind their backs and killed Your prophets who warned them to turn them back to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.

However, I did give them this command: Obey Me, and then I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in every way I command you so that it may go well with you."

Since the day your ancestors came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent all My servants the prophets to you time and time again.

"When you speak all these things to them, they will not listen to you. When you call to them, they will not answer you.

I spoke to you when you were secure. You said: I will not listen. This has been your way since youth; indeed, you have never listened to Me.

But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they closed their ears so they could not hear.

Just as He had called, and they would not listen, so when they called, I would not listen," says the LORD of Hosts.

Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep on rebelling? The whole head is hurt, and the whole heart is sick.

I have struck down your children in vain; they would not accept discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a ravaging lion.

LORD, don't Your eyes [look for] faithfulness? You have struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They made their faces harder than rock, and they refused to return.

Because of the indecency of your uncleanness-- since I tried to purify you, but you would not be purified from your uncleanness-- you will not be pure again until I have satisfied My wrath on you.

You hate instruction and turn your back on My words.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

and you will say, "How I hated discipline, and how my heart despised correction.

They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Though I taught them time and time again, they do not listen and receive discipline.

"This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Go, say to the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem: Will you not accept discipline by listening to My words?"-- [this is] the LORD's declaration.

Therefore, this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I will certainly bring to Judah and to all the residents of Jerusalem all the disaster I have pronounced against them because I have spoken to them, but they have not obeyed, and I have called to them, but they would not answer."

Anyone who believes in Him is not judged, but anyone who does not believe is already judged, because he has not believed in the name of the One and Only Son of God.

"This, then, is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.

because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.

Woe to the rebellious children! [This is] the LORD's declaration. They carry out a plan, but not Mine, They make an alliance, but against My will, piling sin on top of sin.

But Pharaoh's protection will become your shame, and refuge in Egypt's shadow your disgrace.

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and who depend on horses! They trust in the number of chariots and in the great strength of charioteers. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel and they do not seek the LORD's help.

This is what the LORD says: Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes [human] flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.

He will be like a juniper in the Arabah; he cannot see when good comes but dwells in the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land where no one lives.

In all his scheming, the wicked arrogantly thinks: "There is no accountability, [since] God does not exist."

The Lord said: Because these people approach Me with their mouths to honor Me with lip-service-- yet their hearts are far from Me, and their worship [consists of] man-made rules learned [by rote]--

"But Jacob, you have not called on Me, because, Israel, you have become weary of Me.

let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled [clean] from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.