Deuteronomy 28:32

Your sons and your daughters will be given to other peoples; your eyes will look for them the entire day, but will fail with longing for them. There will be no strength in your hand.

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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 slain before your eyes, but you will not eat its meat; your donkey will be forcibly taken away from before you and will not be restored to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to aid you.

33The harvest of your land and of all your labors—a nation that you do not know will eat it up; you will always be oppressed and crushed,

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Cross References

Numbers 21:29Woe to you, Moab! 1 You have perished, people of Chemosh. 1 He has made his sons to be fugitives 1 and his daughters to be prisoners 1 of Sihon king of the Amorites. 1

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

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

Job 11:20But the eyes of wicked people will fail; 1 they will have no way to flee; 1 their only hope will be a last gasp of life.”

Job 31:8then let me sow, and let another eat, 1 and let my crops be uprooted. 1

Psalms 119:82My eyes long to see your promise; 1 when will you comfort me? 1

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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