Deuteronomy 28:46

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“These curses will be a sign and a wonder upon you and your descendants forever.”

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BSBPD

“These curses will be a sign and a wonder upon you and your descendants forever.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“and they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“and they have been on thee for a sign and for a wonder, also on thy seed--to the age.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Deuteronomy 28:46 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 28:37You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
  2. Deuteronomy 28:59He will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary disasters, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.
  3. Deuteronomy 29:20The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven
  4. Deuteronomy 29:28The LORD uprooted them from their land in His anger, rage, and great wrath, and He cast them into another land, where they are today.’
  5. Isaiah 8:18Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me as signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD of Hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
  6. Jeremiah 19:8I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
  7. Jeremiah 25:18to make them a ruin, an object of horror and contempt and cursing, as they are to this day—Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials;
  8. Ezekiel 14:8I will set My face against that man and make him a sign and a proverb; I will cut him off from among My people. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
  9. Ezekiel 23:32This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You will drink your sister’s cup, a cup deep and wide. It will bring scorn and derision, for it holds so much.
  10. Ezekiel 36:20And wherever they went among the nations, they profaned My holy name, because it was said of them, ‘These are the people of the LORD, yet they had to leave His land.’
  11. 1 Corinthians 10:11Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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