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Deuteronomy 28:46-52 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

46. And they shall be as signs and wonders on thee, and on thy seed for ever.

47. Because thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things:

48. Thou shalt serve thy enemy, whom the Lord will send upon thee, in hunger, and thirst, and nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put an iron yoke upon thy neck, till he consume thee.

49. The Lord will bring upon thee a nation from afar, and from the uttermost ends of the earth, like an eagle that flyeth swiftly, whose tongue thou canst not understand,

50. A most insolent nation, that will shew no regard to the ancients, nor have pity on the infant,

51. And will devour the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruits of thy land: until thou be destroyed, and will leave thee no wheat, nor wine, nor oil, nor herds of oxen, nor flocks of sheep: until he destroy thee.

52. And consume thee in all thy cities, end thy strong and high walls be brought down, wherein thou trustedst in all thy land. Thou shalt be besieged within thy gates in all thy land which the Lord thy God will give thee:

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