Deuteronomy 28:34

King James Version

So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You will be driven mad by what you see.

Hebrew Names Version
so that you shall be mad for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.

Lexham English Bible
You shall become mad because of what your eyes shall see.

English Standard Version
so that you are driven mad by the sights that your eyes see.

New Century Version
The things you see will cause you to go mad.

New English Translation
You will go insane from seeing all this.

Amplified Bible
You shall be driven mad by the sight of the things you see.

New American Standard Bible
"You will also be driven insane by the sight of what you see.

Geneva Bible (1587)
So that thou shalt be madde for the sight which thine eyes shal see.

Legacy Standard Bible
And you shall be driven mad by the sight of what your eyes see.

Contemporary English Version
What you see will be so horrible that you will go insane,

Complete Jewish Bible
till you go crazy from what your eyes have to see.

Darby Translation
And thou shalt be mad through the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

Easy-to-Read Version
The things you see will make you go crazy.

George Lamsa Translation
So that you shall be blinded of the sight with which your eyes shall see.

Good News Translation
Your sufferings will make you lose your mind.

Literal Translation
And you shall be maddened because of that which you shall see with the sight of your eyes.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And thou shalt be cleane besyde thy selfe for the sighte, which thine eyes shal se.

American Standard Version
so that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

Bible in Basic English
So that the things which your eyes have to see will send you out of your minds.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
So that thou shalt be cleane beside thy self, for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
so that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

King James Version (1611)
So that thou shalt bee mad, for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And thou shalt be distracted, because of the sights of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

English Revised Version
so that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

Berean Standard Bible
You will be driven mad by the sights you see.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and wondrynge at the ferdfulnesse of tho thingis whiche thin iyen schulen se.

Young's Literal Translation
and thou hast been mad, because of the sight of thine eyes which thou dost see.

Update Bible Version
so that you shall be insane for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.

Webster's Bible Translation
So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thy eyes which thou shalt see.

World English Bible
so that you shall be mad for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.

New King James Version
So you shall be driven mad because of the sight which your eyes see.

New Living Translation
You will go mad because of all the tragedy you see around you.

New Life Bible
You will be driven crazy by what you see.

New Revised Standard
and driven mad by the sight that your eyes shall see.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
so that thou shalt be mad, - for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And be astonished at the terror of those things which thy eyes shall see:

Revised Standard Version
so that you shall be driven mad by the sight which your eyes shall see.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You shall be driven mad by the sight of what you see.

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: ¹⁶ Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. ¹⁷ Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. ¹⁸ Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. ¹⁹ Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out. ²⁰ The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me. ²¹ The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it. ²² The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish. ²³ And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. ²⁴ The Lord shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 28:28, Deuteronomy 28:68, Isaiah 33:14, Jeremiah 25:15, Jeremiah 25:16, Revelation 16:10, Revelation 16:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 3:7 - And the Leviticus 26:16 - consume Deuteronomy 28:67 - General 2 Kings 25:7 - they slew Job 41:9 - shall Psalms 109:11 - strangers Ecclesiastes 7:7 - oppression Isaiah 8:21 - hardly bestead Isaiah 51:17 - which hast Jeremiah 39:6 - before Jeremiah 52:10 - slew

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So that thou shalt be mad, for the sight of thine eyes that thou shall see. On account of the shocking things seen by them, their dreadful calamities, oppressions, and persecutions, such as before related; not only violent diseases on their bodies, which were grievous to behold, as well as their pains were intolerable, and made them mad; but to be deprived of a betrothed wife, a newly built house, and a newly planted vineyard; to have an ox slain, and an ass taken away by their enemies, and their sheep given to them before their eyes; to have their sons and daughters taken from them, and brought up in another religion, and to be stripped of their substance; these have made them stark mad, insomuch that they have sometimes destroyed themselves and their families. In Germany, in their rage and madness, they burnt a city and themselves in it; and, in the same country, being summoned by an edict to change their religion, or to be burnt, they agreed to meet together in a certain house, and destroy one another; and first parents killed their children, and husbands their wives, and then killed themselves; leaving only one person to be their doorkeeper, who finished the tragedy by destroying himself, as their own historian relates m. Other stories of the like kind are reported of them, and some such facts as done in our own nation n.

m Ib. (Shebet Judah, sive Hist. Jud.) sect. 34, 36. p. 214, 215, 216, 217. n See Bishop Patrick in loc. and Dr. Newton (Bishop of Bristol) on Prophecies, vol. 1. Dissert. 7. sect. 14. p. 195, 196.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The curses correspond in form and number Deuteronomy 28:15-19 to the blessings Deuteronomy 28:3-6, and the special modes in which these threats should be executed are described in five groups of denunciations Deuteronomy 28:20-68.

Deuteronomy 28:20-26

First series of judgments. The curse of God should rest on all they did, and should issue in manifold forms of disease, in famine, and in defeat in war.

Deuteronomy 28:20

Vexation - Rather, confusion: the word in the original is used Deuteronomy 7:23; 1 Samuel 14:20 for the panic and disorder with which the curse of God smites His foes.

Deuteronomy 28:22

“Blasting” denotes (compare Genesis 41:23) the result of the scorching east wind; “mildew” that of an untimely blight falling on the green ear, withering it and marring its produce.

Deuteronomy 28:24

When the heat is very great the atmosphere in Palestine is often filled with dust and sand; the wind is a burning sirocco, and the air comparable to the glowing heat at the mouth of a furnace.

Deuteronomy 28:25

Shalt be removed - See the margin. The threat differs from that in Leviticus 26:33, which refers to a dispersion of the people among the pagan. Here it is meant that they should be tossed to and fro at the will of others, driven from one country to another without any certain settlement.

Deuteronomy 28:27-37

Second series of judgments on the body, mind, and outward circumstances of the sinners.

Deuteronomy 28:27

The “botch” (rather “boil;” see Exodus 9:9), the “emerods” or tumors 1Sa 5:6, 1 Samuel 5:9, the “scab” and “itch” represent the various forms of the loathsome skin diseases which are common in Syria and Egypt.

Deuteronomy 28:28

Mental maladies shah be added to those sore bodily plagues, and should Deuteronomy 28:29-34 reduce the sufferers to powerlessness before their enemies and oppressors.

Blindness - Most probably mental blindness; compare Lamentations 4:14; Zep 1:17; 2 Corinthians 3:14 ff.

Deuteronomy 28:30-33

See the marginal references for the fulfillment of these judgments.

Deuteronomy 28:38-48

Third series of judgments, affecting every kind of labor and enterprise until it had accomplished the total ruin of the nation, and its subjection to its enemies.

Deuteronomy 28:39

Worms - i. e. the vine-weevil. Naturalists prescribed elaborate precautions against its ravages.

Deuteronomy 28:40

Cast ... - Some prefer “shall be spoiled” or “plundered.”

Deuteronomy 28:43, Deuteronomy 28:44

Contrast Deuteronomy 28:12 and Deuteronomy 28:13.

Deuteronomy 28:46

Forever - Yet “the remnant” Romans 9:27; Romans 11:5 would by faith and obedience become a holy seed.

Deuteronomy 28:49-58

Fourth series of judgments, descriptive of the calamities and horrors which should ensue when Israel should be subjugated by its foreign foes.

Deuteronomy 28:49

The description (compare the marginal references) applies undoubtedly to the Chaldeans, and in a degree to other nations also whom God raised up as ministers of vengeance upon apostate Israel (e. g. the Medes). But it only needs to read this part of the denunciation, and to compare it with the narrative of Josephus, to see that its full and exact accomplishment took place in the wars of Vespasian and Titus against the Jews, as indeed the Jews themselves generally admit.

The eagle - The Roman ensign; compare Matthew 24:28; and consult throughout this passage the marginal references.

Deuteronomy 28:54

Evil - i. e. grudging; compare Deuteronomy 15:9.

Deuteronomy 28:57

Young one - The “afterbirth” (see the margin). The Hebrew text in fact suggests an extremity of horror which the King James Version fails to exhibit. Compare 2 Kings 6:29.

Deuteronomy 28:58-68

Fifth series of judgments. The uprooting of Israel from the promised land, and its dispersion among other nations. Examine the marginal references.

Deuteronomy 28:58

In this book - i. e. in the book of the Law, or the Pentateuch in so far as it contains commands of God to Israel. Deuteronomy is included, but not exclusively intended. So Deuteronomy 28:61; compare Deuteronomy 27:3 and note, Deuteronomy 31:9.

Deuteronomy 28:66

Thy life shall hang in doubt before thee - i. e. shall be hanging as it were on a thread, and that before thine own eyes. The fathers regard this passage as suggesting in a secondary or mystical sense Christ hanging on the cross, as the life of the Jews who would not believe in Him.

Deuteronomy 28:68

This is the climax. As the Exodus from Egypt was as it were the birth of the nation into its covenant relationship with God, so the return to the house of bondage is in like manner the death of it. The mode of conveyance, “in ships,” is added to heighten the contrast. They crossed the sea from Egypt with a high hand. the waves being parted before them. They should go back again cooped up in slaveships.

There ye shall be sold - Rather, “there shall ye offer yourselves, or be offered for sale.” This denunciation was literally fulfilled on more than one occasion: most signally when many thousand Jews were sold into slavery and sent into Egypt by Titus; but also under Hadrian, when numbers were sold at Rachel’s grave Genesis 35:19.

No man shall buy you - i. e. no one shall venture even to employ you as slaves, regarding you as accursed of God, and to be shunned in everything.