Blessings for Obedience
1If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. 2All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God:
3You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.
4The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
5Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed.
6You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.
7The Lord will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.
8The Lord will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The Lord your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.
9The Lord will establish you as his holy people, as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of the Lord your God and walk in obedience to him. 10Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they will fear you. 11The Lord will grant you abundant prosperity—in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground—in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.
12The Lord will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. 13The Lord will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the Lord your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom. 14Do not turn aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left, following other gods and serving them.
Curses for Disobedience
15However, if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you:
16You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.
17Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.
18The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
19You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.
20The Lord will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him.28:20 Hebrew me 21The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess. 22The Lord will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish. 23The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron. 24The Lord will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.
25The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven, and you will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms on earth. 26Your carcasses will be food for all the birds and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away. 27The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured. 28The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind. 29At midday you will grope about like a blind person in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue you.
30You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit. 31Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it. Your donkey will be forcibly taken from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them. 32Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, and you will wear out your eyes watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand. 33A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression all your days. 34The sights you see will drive you mad. 35The Lord will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
36The Lord will drive you and the king you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your ancestors. There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone. 37You will become a thing of horror, a byword and an object of ridicule among all the peoples where the Lord will drive you.
38You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it. 39You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them. 40You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off. 41You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity. 42Swarms of locusts will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.
43The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower. 44They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, but you will be the tail.
45All these curses will come on you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the Lord your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you. 46They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever. 47Because you did not serve the Lord your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity, 48therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.
49The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand, 50a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old or pity for the young. 51They 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 or olive oil, nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined. 52They will lay siege 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.
53Because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you. 54Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children, 55and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities. 56The most gentle and sensitive woman among you—so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot—will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter 57the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For in her dire need she intends to eat them secretly because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of your cities.
58If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law, which are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome name—the Lord your God— 59the Lord will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses. 60He will bring on you all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will cling to you. 61The Lord will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed. 62You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the Lord your God. 63Just as it pleased the Lord to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.
64Then the Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known. 65Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart. 66You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life. 67In the morning you will say, “If only it were evening!” and in the evening, “If only it were morning!”—because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see. 68The Lord will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again. There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.
遵守诫命蒙祝福
1“你们若全心顺服你们的上帝耶和华，谨遵祂今天借我吩咐你们的一切诫命，祂必使你们超越天下万国。 2你们若听从你们的上帝耶和华的话，以下这些福气必临到你们，追随你们。
3“无论你们在城里还是乡间，都必蒙福。
4“你们必子孙昌盛，五谷丰登，牛羊成群。
5“你们的篮子和揉面盆都必蒙福。
6“你们出入都必蒙福。
7“耶和华必使来犯之敌败在你们面前、溃不成军、四散逃命。
8“耶和华必使你们凡事蒙福、五谷满仓。你们的上帝耶和华必在祂赐给你们的土地上赐福你们。
9“你们若遵守你们上帝耶和华的诫命，遵行祂的旨意，祂必按自己的誓言立你们作祂圣洁的子民。 10天下万民将看出你们是耶和华名下的子民，并惧怕你们。
11“在耶和华向你们祖先起誓要赐给你们的土地上，祂必使你们子孙昌盛、牛羊成群、五谷丰登。 12耶和华要为你们打开天上的宝库，使你们风调雨顺、凡事蒙福。你们必借贷给多国，却无需向别国借贷。 13-14你们若听从你们的上帝耶和华借我今天吩咐你们的诫命，谨慎遵行，毫不偏离，也不随从、供奉其他神明，祂必使你们做首不做尾，居上不居下。
违背诫命受咒诅
15“你们若不听从你们的上帝耶和华，不谨遵祂今天借我吩咐你们的一切诫命和律例，祂必使以下的咒诅临到你们，追随你们。
16“无论你们在城里还是乡间，都必受咒诅。
17“你们的篮子和揉面盆都必受咒诅。
18“妇女所生的，土地所产的，牛羊所生的都必受咒诅。
19“你们出入都必受咒诅。
20“因为你们作恶、背弃耶和华，祂要使你们凡事受咒诅、混乱不堪、饱受责罚，直到你们被毁灭，迅速灭亡。
21“耶和华要使瘟疫紧紧跟随你们，直到你们在将要占领的土地上被灭绝。
22“耶和华要使你们遭受痨病、热症、炎症、炙热、刀剑、干旱和霉烂之灾。这些要危害你们，直到你们灭亡。
23“耶和华要使你们头顶的天如铜，脚下的地如铁。
24“耶和华要使雨水变为尘土，降在你们身上，直到你们灭亡。
25“耶和华要使你们被敌人击败、溃不成军、四散逃命，下场令天下万国惊惧。 26你们的尸体要成为飞禽走兽的食物，必无人赶走它们。
27“耶和华要使你们患埃及的脓疮、肿瘤和癣疥，无药可治。
28“耶和华要使你们发疯、瞎眼、心智错乱。
29“你们必在大白天摸索，就像盲人在黑暗中摸索一样，你们的道路必不得亨通，你们要终日受人欺压抢掠，无人搭救。
30“你们聘了妻子，别人必占有她们；你们盖了房屋，必不能住在里面；你们栽种葡萄园，必吃不到园中的出产。
31“你们必看着自己的牛被宰杀却吃不到肉，自己的驴被抢走后一去不还，自己的羊被敌人掳走却无人搭救， 32自己的儿女被外族人掳走，你们终日望眼欲穿，却无能为力。
33“与你们素不相识的民族必吃光你们土地的出产和劳碌所得，你们必常受欺压， 34以致眼前的一切令你们发疯。
35“耶和华要使你们从头到脚长满毒疮，无药可治。
36“耶和华要带你们和你们立的王，到一个你们和你们祖先都不知道的国家，你们要在那里供奉木石神像。
37“在耶和华驱逐你们去的列国，你们的下场令人惊骇，被人嘲笑和讥讽。
38“你们种的多，却收的少，因为庄稼必被蝗虫吃掉。
39“你们栽种、修剪葡萄园，却吃不到葡萄，也喝不到葡萄酒，因为葡萄必被虫子吃掉。
40“你们境内长满橄榄树，却没有橄榄油抹身，因为橄榄必未熟先落。
41“你们生儿育女，却留不住一个，因为他们必被掳走。
42“蝗虫要吃光你们的树木和地上的出产。
43“你们中间的外族人要日益兴旺，你们却要日渐衰微。
44“他们要借贷给你们，你们却不能借贷给他们。他们要做首，你们要做尾。
45“因为你们不听从你们上帝耶和华的话，不遵守祂吩咐你们的诫命和律例，这些咒诅都必临到你们、追赶你们，直到毁灭你们。 46这些咒诅要永远作为你们和你们子孙的神迹奇事。 47因为你们在富足时不心甘情愿地事奉你们的上帝耶和华， 48所以你们必饥饿干渴、赤身裸体、一无所有地侍奉耶和华派来攻击你们的敌人。祂要把铁轭加在你们的颈上，直到消灭你们。
49“耶和华要使一国从遥远的地极兴起，他们要如鹰飞来袭击你们。你们不懂他们的语言。 50他们面目狰狞，不尊重年老的，也不怜悯年少的。 51他们要吃光你们的牛羊、五谷、新酒和油，直到消灭你们。 52在你们的上帝耶和华所赐给你们的整片土地上，他们要把你们围困在各个城邑中，直到你们所依赖的高大坚固的城墙都倒塌。
53“当你们被敌人围困、陷入绝境时，你们必吃自己的亲生骨肉，就是你们的上帝耶和华赐给你们的儿女。 54-55你们被敌人围困在各城中，陷入绝境时，连你们中间最温柔体贴的男人也要独自吞吃子女的肉，不肯分给自己的兄弟、爱妻和剩下的儿女，因为他别无所有。 56-57你们被敌人困在各城中，陷入绝境时，连你们中间最温柔、娇嫩得连脚也不肯踏在地上的妇女，都要偷偷吃掉自己生的婴儿和胎胞，不肯分给所爱的丈夫和子女。
58“如果你们不谨遵这书上所写的一切律法，不敬畏你们的上帝耶和华那荣耀、可畏的名， 59祂必使你们及子孙遭遇严重而长久的灾难和疾病， 60使你们所惧怕的埃及人的一切疾病都降在你们身上，缠住你们， 61还使各种未记在这律法书上的疾病和灾难降在你们身上，直到消灭你们。 62因为你们不听从你们的上帝耶和华的话，即使你们的人数多如天上的星，也将所剩无几。 63正如耶和华喜欢赐福你们，使你们人丁兴旺，祂也同样会不惜消灭你们，使你们在将要占领的土地上被铲除。
64“耶和华要把你们分散到天下万邦，你们要在那里供奉祖祖辈辈素不认识的木石神像。 65你们在万邦中将不得安宁，没有落脚之地，耶和华必使你们胆战心惊、目光呆滞、精神颓废。 66你们必惴惴不安，昼夜恐惧，生死难料。 67你们必看见可怕之事，以致心中充满恐惧，早上盼望天黑，晚上盼望天亮。 68耶和华必沿着我曾说你们再不会走的路线，用船把你们送回埃及。你们将在那里卖身做敌人的仆婢，却无人买。”
