Blessings
and Cursing
Lev 25:1-7
25:1 And the LORD spoke to
Moses on Mount Sinai , saying,
2 "Speak to the
children of Israel
3 Six years you shall sow
your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather its fruit;
4 but in the seventh year there
shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to the LORD.
You shall neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard.
5 What grows of its own
accord of your harvest you shall not reap, nor gather the grapes of your
untended vine, for it is a year of rest for the land.
6 And the sabbath produce
of the land shall be food for you: for you, your male and female servants, your
hired man, and the stranger who dwells with you,
7 for your livestock and
the beasts that are in your land--all its produce shall be for food.
Lev
26:14-25
14'But if you do not obey
Me, and do not observe all these commandments,
15
and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant,
16
I also will do this to you: I will even
appoint terror over you, wasting disease and fever which shall consume the
eyes and cause sorrow of heart. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your
enemies shall eat it.
17 I will set My face
against you, and you shall be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you shall
reign over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you.
18'And after all this, if
you do not obey Me, then I will punish you
- seven times more - for your sins.
19
I will break the pride of your power; I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.
20
And your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield its
produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.
21'Then,
if you walk contrary to Me, and are not willing to obey Me, I will bring on you
seven times more plagues,
according to your sins.
22
I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children,
destroy your livestock, and make you few in number; and your highways shall be
desolate.
23'And if by these things
you are not reformed by Me, but walk contrary to Me,
24 then I also will walk
contrary to you, and I will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
25
And I will bring a sword against you that
will execute the vengeance of the covenant; when you are gathered together
within your cities I will send pestilence among you; and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
Lev
26:30-35
31 I will lay your cities waste and bring your
sanctuaries to desolation, and I
will not smell the fragrance of your sweet aromas.
32
I will bring the land to desolation,
and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.
33
I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you; your land
shall be desolate and your cities
waste.
34 Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as
long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies' land; then the land
shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
35
As long as it lies desolate it shall
rest--for the time it did not rest on your sabbaths when you dwelt in it.
Deut 27:26
26 Cursed is the one who does not confirm all the words of
this law.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen!'
Deut 28:1-67
28:1
"Now it shall come to pass, if you
diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all
His commandments which I command you today, that the LORD your God will set you high above all nations of
the earth.
2
And all these blessings shall come upon
you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the LORD your God:
3 Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country.
4 Blessed shall be the fruit of your
body, the produce of your ground and the increase of your herds, the increase
of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.
5 Blessed shall be your basket and your
kneading bowl.
6 Blessed shall you be when you come in,
and blessed shall you be when you go
out.
7
"The LORD will cause your enemies
who rise against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out
against you one way and flee before you seven ways.
8
The LORD will command the blessing on
you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand, and He will bless you in the land which the LORD
your God is giving you.
9 The LORD will establish you as a holy
people to Himself, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the
commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.
10 Then all peoples of the earth shall see
that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they shall be afraid of you.
14 So you shall not turn aside from any of the
words which I command you this day, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
15
"But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice
of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I
command you today, that all these curses
will come upon you and overtake you:
16 Cursed shall you be in the city, and
cursed shall you be in the country.
17 Cursed shall be your basket and your
kneading bowl.
18 Cursed shall
be the fruit of your body and the produce of your land, the increase of your
cattle and the offspring of your flocks.
19 Cursed shall
you be when you come in, and cursed
shall you be when you go out.
20
"The LORD will send on you cursing,
confusion, and rebuke in all that you set your hand to do, until you are
destroyed and until you perish quickly, because
of the wickedness of your doings in which you have forsaken Me.
23 And your heavens which are over your head
shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you shall be iron.
24
The LORD will change the rain of your land to powder and dust; from the heaven
it shall come statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not
perform all My commandments, but break My covenant,
25 The LORD will cause you to be defeated
before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them and flee seven
ways before them; and you shall become troublesome to all the kingdoms of the
earth.
28
The LORD will strike you with madness and blindness and confusion of heart.
29
And you shall grope at noonday, as a blind man gropes in darkness; you shall
not prosper in your ways; you shall be only oppressed and plundered
continually, and no one shall save you.
32 Your sons and your daughters shall be given
to another people, and your eyes shall look and fail with longing for them
all day long; and there shall be no strength in your hand.
33
A nation whom you have not known shall eat the fruit of your land and the
produce of your labor, and you shall be
only oppressed and crushed continually.
36 The LORD will bring you and the king whom
you set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and
there you shall serve other gods--wood and stone.
41 You shall beget sons and daughters, but
they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity.
45
Moreover all these curses shall come
upon you and pursue and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the
LORD your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded
you.
49 The LORD will bring a nation against you
from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation
whose language you will not understand,
Jer 25:1-15
1
The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah , in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son
of Josiah, king of Judah
(which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
2
which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem
3
"From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even
to this day, this is the twenty-third year in which the word of the LORD has
come to me; and I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, but you have not listened.
4 And the LORD has sent to you all His
servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, but you have not listened
nor inclined your ear to hear.
5
They said, 'Repent now everyone of his
evil way and his evil doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD has given
to you and your fathers forever and ever.
6
Do not go after other gods to serve
them and worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your
hands; and I will not harm you.'
7 "Yet you
have not listened to Me," says the LORD, "that you might provoke
Me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.
8
"Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: 'Because you have not heard My words,
9
behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,' says the LORD,
'and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon,
My servant, and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants,
and against these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them, and make
them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and
the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride,
the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.
11
And this whole land shall be a desolation
and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon
12'Then
it will come to pass, when - seventy years - are completed, that I will punish the king
of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity,'
says the LORD; 'and I will make it a perpetual desolation.
13 So I will bring on that land all My words which I have
pronounced against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has
prophesied concerning all the nations.
14(For
many nations and great kings shall be served by them also; and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the works of their own
hands.)' "
Isa 44:21- 27
21
"Remember these, O Jacob, And Israel
22 I have blotted
out, like a thick cloud, your transgressions, And like a cloud, your sins.
Return to Me, for I have redeemed you."
23
Sing, O heavens, for the LORD has done
it! Shout, you lower parts of the earth; Break forth into singing, you
mountains, O forest, and every tree in it! For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, And glorified Himself in Israel
24 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, And He who formed
you from the womb: "I am the LORD, who makes all things, Who stretches out
the heavens all alone, Who spreads abroad the earth by Myself;
25 Who frustrates the signs of the babblers, And drives
diviners mad; Who turns wise men backward, And makes their knowledge
foolishness;
26 Who confirms the word of His servant And performs the counsel of His messengers;
Who says to Jerusalem, 'You shall be
inhabited,' To the cities of Judah, 'You
shall be built,' And I will
raise up her waste places;
27 Who says to the deep, 'Be dry! And I will dry up your
rivers';
28 Who says of Cyrus,
'He is My shepherd, And he
shall perform all My pleasure, Saying
to Jerusalem
Isaiah 45:1-7
1
"Thus says the LORD to His
anointed, To Cyrus, whose right hand I have held--To subdue nations before
him And loose the armor of kings, To open before him the double doors, So that
the gates will not be shut:
2 'I will go before you And make the crooked places
straight; I will break in pieces the gates of bronze And cut the bars of iron.
3 I
will give you the treasures of darkness And hidden riches of secret places, That you may know that I, the LORD, Who call you by your name, Am the God of Israel
4 For Jacob My servant's sake, And Israel My
elect, I have even called you by your
name; I have named you, though you have not known Me.
5 I
am the LORD, and there is no other;
There is no God besides Me. I will gird you, though you have not known Me,
6 That they may know from the rising of the sun to its
setting That there is none besides Me. I
am the LORD, and there is no other;
Dan
9:24-27
24 "Seventy
weeks ( shib-iym sha-boo-eem in Heb. literally means- seventy sevens, i.e. Seventy weeks
of years; Daniel had been considering the years of captivity. If days were what was in view, the word yom or days, would have been added in
the Hebrew text as it is in 10:2-3. In the Greek the word translated
weeks is heptads; again, seventy
sevens) are determined For your people and for your holy city, To finish the
transgression, To make an end of sins, To make reconciliation for iniquity, To
bring in everlasting righteousness, To seal up vision and prophecy, And to
anoint the Most Holy.
25 "Know therefore and understand, That from the going forth of the command To restore and build Jerusalem Until
Messiah the Prince, There shall be seven
weeks and sixty-two weeks; The
street shall be built again, and the wall, Even in troublesome times.
26 "And after
the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself; And the
people of the prince who is to come Shall destroy
the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be with a flood, And till
the end of the war desolations are
determined.
27 Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; But in the middle of the week He
shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of
abominations shall be one who makes desolate,
Even until the consummation, which is determined, is poured out on the desolate."
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