28 The Lord will strike you with insanity, blindness, and with confusion of [a]mind; 29 and you will be (A)groping about at noon, just as a person who is blind gropes in the darkness, and you will not be successful in your ways; but you will only be [b]oppressed and robbed all the time, with no one to save you. 30 (B)You will [c]betroth a woman, but another man will [d]violate her; (C)you will build a house, but you will not live in it; you will plant a vineyard, but you will not make use of its fruit.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:28 Lit heart
  2. Deuteronomy 28:29 Or exploited
  3. Deuteronomy 28:30 A betrothed couple was considered legally married, but did not yet live together
  4. Deuteronomy 28:30 Or be intimate with

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