Deuteronomy 28:37

And thou wilt become a ruin, a proverb, and a history, among all nations whither the Lord shall make thee go.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.

In Context

36The Lord will make thee and thy king whom thou mayest have set over thee to be captive to a people whom thou and thy fathers have not known; and there shalt thou serve a people, worshippers of idols of wood and stone;

38Much seed wilt thou carry out into the field, but little shalt thou gather in, for the locust will consume it;

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:22The whole land, brimstone and salt and burning, with no sowing, or growth, or any herbage springing up therein, even as the overthrow of Sedom and Amorah, Admah and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and indignation,

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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