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and shall eat the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your ground, until you be destroyed; that also shall not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your cattle, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
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A Curse of Total Ruin
Commentators explain that this curse describes total economic and agricultural devastation. The invading enemy would not just conquer but consume every source of Israel's sustenance—livestock, grain, wine, and oil—leaving nothing behind. This signifies a complete stripping of the blessings God had previously promised, leading to the nation's ruin.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The curses correspond in form and number (Deuteronomy 28:15–19) to the blessings (Deuteronomy 28:3–6), and the special ways…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And he shall eat the fruit of your cattle Larger and lesser, oxen and sheep, as their calves and lambs, and kids of …
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…
