Deuteronomy 28:32

Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.

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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 before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will save you.

33A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.

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Cross References

Numbers 21:29Woe to you, O Moab! You are destroyed, O people of Chemosh! He gave up his sons as refugees, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.

Deuteronomy 28:41You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.

2 Chronicles 29:9For behold, this is why our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives are in captivity.

Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; they will hope for their last breath.”

Job 31:8then may another eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.

Psalms 119:82My eyes fail, looking for Your promise; I ask, “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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