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Deuteronomy 28:9-23 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

9. The Lord will raise thee up to be a holy people to himself, as he swore to thee: if thou keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways.

10. And all the people of the earth shall see that the name of the Lord is invocated upon thee, and they shall fear thee.

11. The Lord will make thee abound with all goods, with the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy cattle, with the fruit of thy land, which the Lord swore to thy fathers that he would give thee.

12. The Lord will open his excellent treasure, the heaven, that it may give rain in due season: and he will bless all the works of thy hands. And thou shalt lend to many nations, and shalt not borrow of any one.

13. And the Lord shall make thee the head and not the tail: and thou shalt be always above, and not beneath: yet so if thou wilt hear the commandments of the Lord thy God which I command thee this day, and keep and do them,

14. And turn not away from them neither to the right hand, nor to the left, nor follow strange gods, nor worship them.

15. But if thou wilt not hear the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep and to do all his commandments and ceremonies, which I command thee this day, all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.

16. Cursed shalt thou be in the city, cursed in the field.

17. Cursed shall be thy barn, and cursed thy stores.

18. Cursed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, the herds of thy oxen, and the flocks of thy sheep.

19. Cursed shalt thou be coming in, and cursed going out.

20. The Lord shall send upon thee famine and hunger, and a rebuke upon all the works which thou shalt do: until he consume and destroy thee quickly, for thy most wicked inventions, by which thou hast forsaken me.

21. May the Lord set the pestilence upon thee, until he consume thee out of the land, which thou shalt go in to possess.

22. May the Lord afflict thee with miserable want, with the fever and with cold, with burning and with heat, and with corrupted air and with blasting, and pursue thee till thou perish.

23. Be the heaven, that is over thee, of brass: and the ground thou treadest on, of iron.

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