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Deuteronomy 28:48

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therefore you will serve your enemies whom Yahweh sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

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Deuteronomy 28:48 in other translations

therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies that Jehovah shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

Deuteronomy 28:48 · American Standard Version

Deuteronomy 28:48 in context

  1. 46They will be for a sign and for a wonder to you and to your offspring forever.
  2. 47Because you didn’t serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;
  3. 48therefore you will serve your enemies whom Yahweh sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.
  4. 49Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies: a nation whose language you will not understand,
  5. 50a nation of fierce facial expressions, that doesn’t respect the elderly, nor show favor to the young.