Deuteronomy 28:46
They will be lasting evidence, visible signs of what happened to you and your descendants.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.
In Context
47Because you did not serve the Lord your God with happiness and with a joyful attitude,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:37You will be something that horrifies all the nations where you've been exiled by the Lord. They will laugh at you and ridicule you.
Deuteronomy 29:20The Lord would never want to pardon them. In fact, his passionate anger will burn against them, and every curse written in this book will fall on them. The Lord will erase their name from the earth,
Isaiah 8:18Look, I'm here, together with the children the Lord has given me. They are signs and wonders in Israel from the Lord Almighty, who lives on Mount Zion.
Jeremiah 25:18to Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, its kings and officials, destroying them so that people were horrified at what happened to them and mocked them and cursed them (and they are still like this today);
Ezekiel 23:32This is what the Lord God says: You will drink from your sister's cup—a large, deep cup. You will be laughed at and insulted. You'll have to endure much of this.
1 Corinthians 10:11All the things that happened to them are examples to us and were written down to warn us, we who are living close to the end of time.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 28:46-68
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… Read the whole commentary →