📜WEB · Deuteronomy 28:34
What does Deuteronomy 28:34 mean?
"so that the sights that you see with your eyes will drive you mad."
— Deuteronomy 28:34 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Your ox will be slain before your eyes, and you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be violently taken away from before your face, and will not be restored to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to save you.
Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look, and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power in your hand.
A nation which you don’t know will eat the fruit of your ground and all of your work. You will only be oppressed and crushed always;
so that the sights that you see with your eyes will drive you mad.
Yahweh will strike you in the knees and in the legs with a sore boil, of which you can not be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
Yahweh will bring you, and your king whom you will set over yourselves, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods of wood and stone.
You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where Yahweh will lead you away.
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