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

28 The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind. 29 At midday you will grope(A) about like a blind person in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue(B) you.

30 You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her.(C) You will build a house, but you will not live in it.(D) You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit.(E)

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