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48 instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty[a] you will serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you. They[b] will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:48 tn Heb “lack of everything.”
  2. Deuteronomy 28:48 tn Heb “he” (also later in this verse). The pronoun is a collective singular referring to the enemies (cf. CEV, NLT). Many translations understand the singular pronoun to refer to the Lord (cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NCV, NRSV, TEV).

48 therefore in hunger and thirst,(A) in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke(B) on your neck(C) until he has destroyed you.

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