Deuteronomii 28
1 Si autem audieris vocem Domini Dei tui, ut facias atque custodias omnia mandata eius, quæ ego præcipio tibi hodie, faciet te Dominus Deus tuus excelsiorem cunctis gentibus, quæ versantur in terra.
If you listen carefully to the voice of Yahweh your God so as to keep all his commandments that I am commanding you today, Yahweh your God will set you above all the other nations of the earth.
2 Venientque super te universæ benedictiones istæ, et apprehendent te: si tamen præcepta eius audieris.
All these blessings will come on you and overtake you, if you listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.
3 Benedictus tu in civitate, et benedictus in agro.
Blessed will you be in the city, and blessed will you be in the field.
4 Benedictus fructus ventris tui, et fructus terræ tuæ, fructusque iumentorum tuorum, greges armentorum tuorum, et caulæ ovium tuarum.
Blessed will be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your beasts, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.
5 Benedicta horrea tua, et benedictæ reliquiæ tuæ.
Blessed will be your basket and your kneading trough.
6 Benedictus eris tu ingrediens et egrediens.
Blessed will you be when you come in, and blessed will you be when you go out.
7 Dabit Dominus inimicos tuos, qui consurgunt adversum te, corruentes in conspectu tuo: per unam viam venient contra te, et per septem fugient a facie tua.
Yahweh will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck down before you; they will come out against you one way but will flee before you seven ways.
8 Emittet Dominus benedictionem super cellaria tua, et super omnia opera manuum tuarum: benedicetque tibi in terra, quam acceperis.
Yahweh will command the blessing to come on you in your barns and in all that you put your hand to; he will bless you in the land that he is giving you.
9 Suscitabit te Dominus sibi in populum sanctum, sicut iuravit tibi: si custodieris mandata Domini Dei tui, et ambulaveris in viis eius.
Yahweh will establish you as a people that is set apart for himself, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and walk in his ways.
10 Videbuntque omnes terrarum populi quod nomen Domini invocatum sit super te, et timebunt te.
All the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of Yahweh, and they will be afraid of you.
11 Abundare te faciet Dominus omnibus bonis, fructu uteri tui, et fructu iumentorum tuorum, fructu terræ tuæ, quam iuravit Dominus patribus tuis ut daret tibi.
Yahweh will make you very prosperous in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your cattle, in the fruit of your ground, in the land that he swore to your fathers to give you.
12 Aperiet Dominus thesaurum suum optimum, cælum, ut tribuat pluviam terræ tuæ in tempore suo: benedicetque cunctis operibus manuum tuarum. Et fœnerabis gentibus multis, et ipse a nullo fœnus accipies.
Yahweh will open to you his storehouse of the heavens to give the rain for your land at the right time, and to bless all the work of your hand; you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.
13 Constituet te Dominus in caput, et non in caudam: et eris semper supra, et non subter: si tamen audieris mandata Domini Dei tui quæ ego præcipio tibi hodie, et custodieris et feceris,
Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail; you will be only above, and you will never be beneath, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God that I am commanding you today, so as to observe and to do them,
14 ac non declinaveris ab eis nec ad dexteram, nec ad sinistram, nec secutus fueris deos alienos, neque colueris eos.
and if you do not turn away from any of the words that I am commanding you today, to the right hand or to the left, so as to go after other gods to serve them.
15 Quod si audire nolueris vocem Domini Dei tui, ut custodias, et facias omnia mandata eius et ceremonias, quas ego præcipio tibi hodie, venient super te omnes maledictiones istæ, et apprehendent te.
But if you do not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, so as to keep all his commandments and his statutes that I am commanding you today, then all these curses will come on you and overtake you.
16 Maledictus eris in civitate, maledictus in agro.
Cursed will you be in the city, and cursed will you be in the field.
17 Maledictum horreum tuum, et maledictæ reliquiæ tuæ.
Cursed will be your basket and your kneading trough.
18 Maledictus fructus ventris tui, et fructus terræ tuæ, armenta boum tuorum, et greges ovium tuarum.
Cursed will be the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.
19 Maledictus eris ingrediens, et maledictus egrediens.
Cursed will you be when you come in, and cursed will you be when you go out.
20 Mittet Dominus super te famem et esuriem, et increpationem in omnia opera tua, quæ tu facies: donec conterat te, et perdat velociter, propter adinventiones tuas pessimas in quibus reliquisti me.
Yahweh will send on you curses, confusion, and rebukes in all that you put your hand to, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly because of your wicked actions by which you will have forsaken me.
21 Adiungat tibi Dominus pestilentiam, donec consumat te de terra, ad quam ingredieris possidendam.
Yahweh will make the plague cling to you until he destroys you from off the land that you are going in to possess.
22 Percutiat te Dominus egestate, febri et frigore, ardore et æstu, et aere corrupto ac rubigine, et persequatur donec pereas.
Yahweh will attack you with infectious diseases, with fever, with inflammation, and with drought and blistering heat, and with scorching winds and mildew. These will pursue you until you perish.
23 Sit cælum, quod supra te est, æneum: et terra, quam calcas, ferrea.
Your skies that are over your head will be bronze, and the earth that is under you will be iron.
24 Det Dominus imbrem terræ tuæ pulverem, et de cælo descendat super te cinis, donec conteraris.
Yahweh will make the rain of your land into powder and dust; from the heavens will it come down on you, until you are destroyed.
25 Tradat te Dominus corruentem ante hostes tuos. Per unam viam egrediaris contra eos, et per septem fugias, et dispergaris per omnia regna terræ.
Yahweh will cause you to be struck down before your enemies; you will go out one way against them but will flee before them seven ways. You will be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth.
26 Sitque cadaver tuum in escam cunctis volatilibus cæli, et bestiis terræ, et non sit qui abigat.
Your dead body will be food to all the birds of the heavens and to the beasts of the earth; there will be no one to frighten them away.
27 Percutiat te Dominus ulcere Ægypti, et partem corporis, per quam stercora egeruntur, scabie quoque et prurigine: ita ut curari nequeas.
Yahweh will attack you with the boils of Egypt and with ulcers, scurvy, and itch, from which you cannot be healed.
28 Percutiat te Dominus amentia et cæcitate ac furore mentis,
Yahweh will attack you with madness, with blindness, and with mental confusion.
29 et palpes in meridie sicut palpare solet cæcus in tenebris, et non dirigas vias tuas. Omnique tempore calumniam sustineas, et opprimaris violentia, nec habeas qui liberet te.
You will grope about at noonday like the blind grope in the darkness, and you will not prosper in your ways; you will be always oppressed and robbed, and there will be no one to save you.
30 Uxorem accipias, et alius dormiat cum ea. Domum ædifices, et non habites in ea. Plantes vineam, et non vindemies eam.
You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will seize her and rape her. You will build a house but not live in it; you will plant a vineyard but not enjoy its fruit.
31 Bos tuus immoletur coram te, et non comedas ex eo. Asinus tuus rapiatur in conspectu tuo, et non reddatur tibi. Oves tuæ dentur inimicis tuis, et non sit qui te adiuvet.
Your ox will be slain before your eyes, but you will not eat its meat; your donkey will be forcibly taken away from before you and will not be restored to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to aid you.
32 Filii tui et filiæ tuæ tradantur alteri populo, videntibus oculis tuis, et deficientibus ad conspectum eorum tota die, et non sit fortitudo in manu tua.
Your sons and your daughters will be given to other peoples; your eyes will look for them the entire day, but will fail with longing for them. There will be no strength in your hand.
33 Fructus terræ tuæ, et omnes labores tuos comedat populus, quem ignoras: et sis semper calumniam sustinens, et oppressus cunctis diebus,
The harvest of your land and of all your labors—a nation that you do not know will eat it up; you will always be oppressed and crushed,
34 et stupens ad terrorem eorum quæ videbunt oculi tui.
so that you will become insane by what you have to see happen.
35 Percutiat te Dominus ulcere pessimo in genibus et in suris, sanarique non possis a planta pedis usque ad verticem tuum.
Yahweh will attack you in the knees and legs with severe boils from which you cannot be cured, from the bottom of your feet to the top of your head.
36 Ducet te Dominus, et regem tuum, quem constitueris super te, in gentem, quam ignoras tu et patres tui: et servies ibi diis alienis, ligno et lapidi.
Yahweh will take you and the king whom you will place over yourself to a nation that you have not known, neither you nor your ancestors; there you will worship other gods of wood and stone.
37 Et eris perditus in proverbium ac fabulam omnibus populis, ad quos te introduxerit Dominus.
You will become a source of horror, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where Yahweh will lead you away.
38 Sementem multam iacies in terram, et modicum congregabis: quia locustæ devorabunt omnia.
You will take much seed out into the field, but will gather little seed in, for the locusts will consume it.
39 Vineam plantabis, et fodies: et vinum non bibes, nec colliges ex ea quippiam: quoniam vastabitur vermibus.
You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will neither drink any of the wine, nor even gather in the grapes, for worms will eat them.
40 Olivas habebis in omnibus terminis tuis, et non ungeris oleo: quia defluent, et peribunt.
You will have olive trees within all your territory, but you will not rub any of the oil on yourself, for your olive trees will drop their fruit.
41 Filios generabis et filias, et non frueris eis: quoniam ducentur in captivitatem.
You will have sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, for they will go into captivity.
42 Omnes arbores tuas et fruges terræ tuæ rubigo consumet.
All your trees and the fruit of your ground—the locusts will take them over.
43 Advena, qui tecum versatur in terra, ascendet super te, eritque sublimior: tu autem descendes, et eris inferior.
The foreigner who is among you will rise up above you higher and higher; you yourself will come down lower and lower.
44 Ipse fœnerabit tibi, et tu non fœnerabis ei. Ipse erit in caput, et tu eris in caudam.
He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him; he will be the head, and you will be the tail.
45 Et venient super te omnes maledictiones istæ, et persequentes apprehendent te, donec intereas: quia non audisti vocem Domini Dei tui, nec servasti mandata eius et ceremonias, quas præcepit tibi.
All these curses will come on you and will pursue and overtake you until you are destroyed. This will happen because you did not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, so as to keep his commandments and his regulations that he commanded you.
46 Et erunt in te signa atque prodigia, et in semine tuo usque in sempiternum:
These curses will be on you as signs and wonders, and on your descendants forever.
47 eo quod non servieris Domino Deo tuo in gaudio, cordisque lætitia, propter rerum omnium abundantiam:
Because you did not worship Yahweh your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart when you were in prosperity,
48 servies inimico tuo, quem immittet tibi Dominus, in fame, et siti, et nuditate, et omni penuria: et ponet iugum ferreum super cervicem tuam, donec te conterat.
therefore will you serve the enemies that Yahweh will send against you; you will serve them in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in poverty. He will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he destroys you.
49 Adducet Dominus super te gentem de longinquo, et de extremis terræ finibus in similitudinem aquilæ volantis cum impetu: cuius linguam intelligere non possis:
Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle flies to its victim, a nation whose language you do not understand;
50 gentem procacissimam, quæ non deferat seni, nec misereatur parvuli,
a nation with a fierce face that does not respect the aged and does not show favor to the young.
51 et devoret fructum iumentorum tuorum, ac fruges Terræ tuæ: donec intereas, et non relinquat tibi triticum, vinum, et oleum, armenta boum, et greges ovium: donec te disperdat,
They will eat the young of your cattle and the fruit of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave for you no grain, new wine, or oil, no young of your cattle or of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
52 et conterat in cunctis urbibus tuis, et destruantur muri tui firmi atque sublimes, in quibus habebas fiduciam in omni Terra tua. Obsideberis intra portas tuas in omni Terra tua, quam dabit tibi Dominus Deus tuus:
They will besiege you in all your city gates, until your high and fortified walls come down everywhere in your land, walls in which you had trusted. They will besiege you within all your city gates throughout all the land that Yahweh your God had given you.
53 et comedes fructum uteri tui, et carnes filiorum tuorum et filiarum tuarum, quas dederit tibi Dominus Deus tuus, in angustia et vastitate qua opprimet te hostis tuus.
You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God gave you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will put upon you.
54 Homo delicatus in te, et luxuriosus valde, invidebit fratri suo, et uxori, quæ cubat in sinu suo,
The man who is tender and very delicate among you—he will be envious of his brother and his own dear wife, and of whatever children he has left.
55 ne det eis de carnibus filiorum suorum, quas comedet: eo quod nihil aliud habeat in obsidione et penuria, qua vastaverint te inimici tui intra omnes portas tuas.
So he will not give to any of them the flesh of his own children that he is going to eat, because he will have nothing left for himself in the siege and in the distress which your enemy will put upon you within all your city gates.
56 Tenera mulier et delicata, quæ super terram ingredi non valebat, nec pedis vestigium figere propter mollitiem et teneritudinem nimiam, invidebit viro suo, qui cubat in sinu eius, super filii et filiæ carnibus,
The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to put the bottom of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness—she will be envious of her own dear husband, of her son, and of her daughter,
57 et illuvie secundarum, quæ egrediuntur de medio feminum eius, et super liberis qui eadem hora nati sunt. Comedent enim eos clam propter rerum omnium penuriam in obsidione et vastitate, qua opprimet te inimicus tuus intra portas tuas.
and of her own newborn that comes out from between her legs, and of the children whom she will bear. She will eat them in private for lack of anything else, during the siege and in the distress which your enemy will put upon you within your city gates.
58 Nisi custodieris, et feceris omnia verba legis huius, quæ scripta sunt in hoc volumine, et timueris nomen eius gloriosum et terribile, hoc est, Dominum Deum tuum:
If you do not keep all the words of this law that are written in this book, so as to honor this glorious and fearful name, Yahweh your God,
59 augebit Dominus plagas tuas, et plagas seminis tui, plagas magnas et perseverantes, infirmitates pessimas et perpetuas.
then Yahweh will make your plagues terrible, and those of your descendants; they will be great plagues, of long duration, and severe diseases, of long duration.
60 Et convertet in te omnes afflictiones Ægypti, quas timuisti, et adhærebunt tibi:
He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt that you were afraid of; they will cling to you.
61 Insuper et universos languores, et plagas, quæ non sunt scriptæ in volumine legis huius, inducet Dominus super te, donec te conterat:
Also every sickness and plague that is not written in the book of this law, those also Yahweh will bring on you until you are destroyed.
62 et remanebitis pauci numero, qui prius eratis sicut astra cæli præ multitudine, quoniam non audisti vocem Domini Dei tui.
You will be left few in number, although you were like the stars of the heavens in number, because you did not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.
63 Et sicut ante lætatus est Dominus super vos, bene vobis faciens, vosque multiplicans: sic lætabitur disperdens vos atque subvertens, ut auferamini de Terra, ad quam ingredieris possidendam.
As Yahweh once rejoiced over you in doing you good, and in multiplying you, so he will rejoice over you in making you perish and in destroying you. You will be plucked off the land that you are going into to possess.
64 Disperget te Dominus in omnes populos a summitate terræ usque ad terminos eius: et servies ibi diis alienis, quos et tu ignoras et patres tui, lignis et lapidibus.
Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples from the one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; there you will worship other gods that you have not known, neither you nor your ancestors, gods of wood and stone.
65 In gentibus quoque illis non quiesces, neque erit requies vestigio pedis tui. Dabit enim tibi Dominus ibi cor pavidum, et deficientes oculos, et animam consumptam mœrore:
Among these nations will you find no ease, and there will be no rest for the bottoms of your feet; instead, Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a soul that mourns.
66 Et erit vita tua quasi pendens ante te. Timebis nocte et die, et non credes vitæ tuæ.
Your life will hang in doubt before you; you will fear every night and day and will have no certainty at all in your life.
67 Mane dices: Quis mihi det vesperum? Et vespere: Quis mihi det mane? Propter cordis tui formidinem, qua terreberis, et propter ea, quæ tuis videbis oculis.
In the morning you will say, 'I wish it were evening!' and in the evening you will say, 'I wish it were morning!' because of the fear in your hearts and the things your eyes will have to see.
68 Reducet te Dominus classibus in Ægyptum per viam, de qua dixit tibi ut eam amplius non videres. Ibi venderis inimicis tuis in servos et ancillas, et non erit qui emat.
Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again by ships, by the route about which I had said to you, 'You will not see Egypt again.' There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will purchase you.”
