Deuteronomy 28:37
and you have been for an astonishment, for an allegory, and for a byword among all the peoples to where YHWH leads you.
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
38You take much seed out into the field, and you gather little in, for the locust consumes it;
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:22And the latter generation of your sons who rise after you, and the stranger who comes in from a far-off land, have said, when they have seen the strokes of that land and its sicknesses which YHWH has sent into it:
2 Chronicles 7:20and this house that I have sanctified for My Name, I cast from before My face, and make it for a proverb and for a byword among all the peoples.
Jeremiah 24:9And I have given them for a trembling, || For evil—to all kingdoms of the earth, || For a reproach, and for an allegory, || For a byword, and for a reviling, || In all the places to where I drive them.
Lamentations 3:45Outcast and refuse You make us || In the midst of the peoples.
Joel 2:17Let the priests weep between the porch and the altar, servants of YHWH, || And let them say: “Have pity, O YHWH, on Your people, || And do not give Your inheritance to reproach, || To the ruling over them of nations, || Why do they say among peoples, Where [is] their God?”
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 →