Deuteronomy 28:32
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; and there shall be nought in the power of thy hand.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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Numbers 21:29Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh; he hath given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, unto Sihon king of the Amorites.
Deuteronomy 28:41Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be thine; for they shall go into captivity.
2 Chronicles 29:9For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall have no way to flee, and their hope shall be the drooping of the soul.
Job 31:8Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
Psalms 119:82Mine eyes fail for Thy word, saying: 'When wilt Thou 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 →