Deuteronomy 28:32
Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thy eyes shall look on, and fail with longing for them all the day long; but without any power in thy hand.
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Numbers 21:29Woe to thee, Moab! thou art lost, O people of Kemosh: he hath suffered his sons to become fugitives, and his daughters to go into captivity, unto the king of the Emorites, Sichon.
Deuteronomy 28:41Sons and daughters wilt thou beget; but they shall not remain thine: for they shall go into captivity.
2 Chronicles 29:9And, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons, and our daughters, and our wives are in captivity because of this.
Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and the means of escape will vanish from them, and their [sole] hope shall be the breathing out of their soul.
Job 31:8Then let me sow, and let another eat; and let what I have growing be rooted out.
Psalms 119:82My eyes look eagerly for thy promise, 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 →