Deu 28:30-68, Psa 79:1-2, Isa 1:7, 5:17, 63:18, Jer 6:12, Eze 7:21, 24 | ESV | STEP | You shall betroth a wife , but another man shall ravish her. You shall build a house , but you shall not dwell in it. You shall plant a vineyard , but you shall not enjoy its fruit .

30 ^aYou shall betroth a wife, but another man shall ravish her. ^bYou shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it. ^cYou shall plant a vineyard, but you shall not enjoy its fruit. 31 Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat any of it. Your donkey shall be seized before your face, but shall not be restored to you. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies, but there shall be no one to help you. 32 ^dYour sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, ^ebut you shall be helpless. 33 A nation that you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually, 34 so that you are driven mad ^fby the sights that your eyes see. 35 The Lord will strike you on the knees and on the legs ^gwith grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

36 “The Lord will ^hbring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you ⁱnor your fathers have known. And ^jthere you shall serve other gods of wood and stone. 37 And you shall become ^ka horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away. 38 ^lYou shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for ^mthe locust shall consume it. 39 ⁿYou shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them. 40 You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you ^oshall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off. 41 You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for ^pthey shall go into captivity. 42 ^qThe cricket ^{▼▼Identity uncertain} shall possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground. 43 ^sThe sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. 44 ^tHe shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. ^uHe shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.

45 ^v“All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you. 46 They shall be ^wa sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever. 47 ^xBecause you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things, 48 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he ^ywill put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you. 49 ^zThe Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, ^aaswooping down like the eagle, a nation ^abwhose language you do not understand, 50 a hard-faced nation ^acwho shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young. 51 It shall ^adeat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; it also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.

52 “They shall ^aebesiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land. And they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the Lord your God has given you. 53 And ^afyou shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, ^agin the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you. 54 The man who is the most tender and refined among you will ^ahbegrudge food to his brother, to ^aithe wife he embraces, ^{▼▼Hebrew the wife of his bosom} and to the last of the children whom he has left, 55 so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, ^akin the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns. 56 ^alThe most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces, ^{▼▼Hebrew the husband of her bosom} to her son and to her daughter, 57 her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, ^anin the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.

58 “If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, ^aothe Lord your God, 59 then the Lord will bring on you and your offspring extraordinary afflictions, afflictions severe and lasting, and sicknesses grievous and lasting. 60 And he will bring upon you again all ^apthe diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you. 61 Every sickness also and every affliction that is not recorded in the book of this law, the Lord will bring upon you, until you are destroyed. 62 Whereas ^aqyou were as numerous ^aras the stars of heaven, you shall be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God. 63 And as the Lord ^astook delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the Lord will ^attake delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you. And you shall be plucked off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.

64 “And the Lord ^auwill scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and ^avthere you shall serve other gods ^awof wood and stone, ^axwhich neither you nor your fathers have known. 65 And ^ayamong these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but ^azthe Lord will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and ^baa languishing soul. 66 Your life shall hang in doubt before you. Night and day you shall be in dread and have no assurance of your life. 67 ^bbIn the morning you shall say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and at evening you shall say, ‘If only it were morning!’ because of the dread that your heart shall feel, and ^bcthe sights that your eyes shall see. 68 And the Lord ^bdwill bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey that I promised that ^beyou should never make again; and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”

Psalms 79:1-2

How Long, O Lord?

A Psalm of ^bfAsaph.

1 O God, ^bgthe nations have come into your ^bhinheritance;
they have defiled your ^biholy temple;
they have ^bjlaid Jerusalem in ruins.
2 They have given ^bkthe bodies of your servants
to the birds of the heavens for food,
the flesh of your ^blfaithful to ^bmthe beasts of the earth.

Isaiah 1:7

7 ^bnYour country lies desolate;
your cities are burned with fire;
in your very presence
foreigners devour your land;
it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.

Isaiah 5:17

17 Then shall the lambs graze ^boas in their pasture,
and ^bpnomads shall eat among the ruins of the rich.

Isaiah 63:18

18 ^bqYour holy people held possession for a little while; ^{▼▼Or They have dispossessed your holy people for a little while}
^bsour adversaries have trampled down your sanctuary.

Jeremiah 6:12

12 ^btTheir houses shall be turned over to others,
their fields and wives together,
for I will stretch out my hand
against the inhabitants of the land,”

declares the Lord.

Ezekiel 7:21

21 And I will give it into the hands of ^buforeigners for prey, ^bvand to the wicked of the earth for spoil, and ^bwthey shall profane it.

Ezekiel 7:24

24 I will bring ^bxthe worst of the nations to take possession of their houses. ^byI will put an end to the pride of the strong, ^bzand their holy places ^{▼▼By revocalization (compare Septuagint); Hebrew and those who sanctify them} shall be profaned.

Deuteronomy 28:30-68