Deuteronomy 28:32

Your sons and daughters will be taken away as slaves to other nations while you watch, and you'll wear your eyes out crying over them, but there won't be anything you can do about it.

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In The King James Version

Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.

In Context

31Your ox will be slaughtered right in front of you, but you won't eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away and won't be returned to you. Your sheep will be taken by your enemies, and no one will come and save you.

33A foreign nation you've never heard of will eat all the crops you worked so hard to grow. You will be continually persecuted and downtrodden.

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Cross References

Numbers 21:29What a disaster you face, Moab! You are all going to die, people of Chemosh! You handed over your sons as exiles and your daughters as prisoners to Sihon, king of the Amorites.

Deuteronomy 28:41You will have sons and daughters, but you won't have them for long, because they will be taken off into captivity as slaves.

2 Chronicles 29:9As a result, our fathers have died in battle, and our sons and our daughters and our wives have been captured.

Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked will fail, they will not be able to escape, and their only hope is in death.”

Job 31:8then let someone else eat what I have sown, and all that I have grown be uprooted.

Psalms 119:82I strain my eyes looking for you to keep your promises, asking “When will you comfort me?”

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 28:16-45

Threatenings. ( b. c. 1451.) 15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: 16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. 17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. 19… Read the whole commentary →

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