The curses correspond in form and number (Deuteronomy 28:15–19) to the blessings (Deuteronomy 28:3–6), and the special ways…

See Note on Deuteronomy 25:2-3.

This glorious and fearful name, the Lord thy God. —The first Note of the Decalogue…

Then the Lord will make your plagues wonderful
Visible, remarkable, distinguishable, and astonishing to all that see…

If God inflicts vengeance, what miseries His curse can bring upon humankind, even in this present world! Yet these are but the beginning of sorrows…