Deuteronomy 28:47

Green's Literal Translation

because you did not serve Jehovah your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart for the abundance of all things,

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things,

Update Bible Version
Because you didn't serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;

English Revised Version
because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things:

New Century Version
You had plenty of everything, but you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and a pure heart,

New English Translation
"Because you have not served the Lord your God joyfully and wholeheartedly with the abundance of everything you have,

Webster's Bible Translation
Because thou didst not serve the LORD thy God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all [things]:

World English Bible
Because you didn't serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;

Amplified Bible
"Because you did not serve the LORD your God with a heart full of joy and gladness for the abundance of all things [with which He blessed you],

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
for thou seruedist not thi Lord God in the ioye and gladnesse of herte, for the abundaunce of alle thingis.

Young's Literal Translation
`Because that thou hast not served Jehovah thy God with joy, and with gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things --

Berean Standard Bible
Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance,

Contemporary English Version
If the Lord makes you wealthy, but you don't joyfully worship and honor him,

American Standard Version
Because thou servedst not Jehovah thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;

Bible in Basic English
Because you did not give honour to the Lord your God, worshipping him gladly, with joy in your hearts on account of all your wealth of good things;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Because thou seruedst not the Lorde thy God with ioyfulnesse, and with a good heart, when thou haddest aboundaunce of all thinges.

Complete Jewish Bible
Because you didn't serve Adonai your God with joy and gladness in your heart when you had such an abundance of everything;

Darby Translation
Because thou servedst not Jehovah thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of everything,

Easy-to-Read Version
"The Lord your God gave you many blessings. But you did not serve him with joy and a glad heart.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
because thou didst not serve the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;

King James Version (1611)
Because thou seruedst not the Lord thy God with ioyfulnesse, and with gladnesse of heart, for the aboundance of all things.

New Life Bible
Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and a glad heart because of all He has given you,

New Revised Standard
Because you did not serve the Lord your God joyfully and with gladness of heart for the abundance of everything,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Because thou servedst not Yahweh thy God, with rejoicing, and with gladness of heart, for abundance of all things,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Because thou seruedst not the Lorde thy God with ioyfulnesse and with a good heart for the abundance of all things.

George Lamsa Translation
Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;

Good News Translation
The Lord blessed you in every way, but you would not serve him with glad and joyful hearts.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things:

Revised Standard Version
"Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
because thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with gladness and a good heart, because of the abundance of all things.

Christian Standard Bible®
Because you didn’t serve the Lord your God with joy and a cheerful heart, even though you had an abundance of everything,

Hebrew Names Version
Because you didn't serve the LORD your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;

King James Version
Because thou servedst not the Lord thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;

Lexham English Bible
"Because of the fact that you did not serve Yahweh your God with joy and with gladness of heart for the abundance of everything,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
because thou hast not serued ye LORDE thy God with a ioyfull and good hert, whan thou haddest abundaunce of all thinges.

THE MESSAGE
Because you didn't serve God , your God, out of the joy and goodness of your heart in the great abundance, you'll have to serve your enemies whom God will send against you. Life will be famine and drought, rags and wretchedness; then he'll put an iron yoke on your neck until he's destroyed you. Yes, God will raise up a faraway nation against you, swooping down on you like an eagle, a nation whose language you can't understand, a mean-faced people, cruel to grandmothers and babies alike. They'll ravage the young of your animals and the crops from your fields until you're destroyed. They'll leave nothing behind: no grain, no wine, no oil, no calves, no lambs—and finally, no you. They'll lay siege to you while you're huddled behind your town gates. They'll knock those high, proud walls flat, those walls behind which you felt so safe. They'll lay siege to your fortified cities all over the country, this country that God , your God, has given you. And you'll end up cannibalizing your own sons and daughters that God , your God, has given you. When the suffering from the siege gets extreme, you're going to eat your own babies. The most gentle and caring man among you will turn hard, his eye evil, against his own brother, his cherished wife, and even the rest of his children who are still alive, refusing to share with them a scrap of meat from the cannibal child-stew he is eating. He's lost everything, even his humanity, in the suffering of the siege that your enemy mounts against your fortified towns. And the most gentle and caring woman among you, a woman who wouldn't step on a wildflower, will turn hard, her eye evil, against her cherished husband, against her son, against her daughter, against even the afterbirth of her newborn infants; she plans to eat them in secret—she does eat them!—because she has lost everything, even her humanity, in the suffering of the siege that your enemy mounts against your fortified towns. If you don't diligently keep all the words of this Revelation written in this book, living in holy awe before This Name glorious and terrible, God , your God, then God will pound you with catastrophes, you and your children, huge interminable catastrophes, hideous interminable illnesses. He'll bring back and stick you with every old Egyptian malady that once terrorized you. And yes, every disease and catastrophe imaginable—things not even written in the Book of this Revelation— God will bring on you until you're destroyed. Because you didn't listen obediently to the Voice of God , your God, you'll be left with a few pitiful stragglers in place of the dazzling stars-in-the-heavens multitude you had become. And this is how things will end up: Just as God once enjoyed you, took pleasure in making life good for you, giving you many children, so God will enjoy getting rid of you, clearing you off the Earth. He'll weed you out of the very soil that you are entering in to possess. He'll scatter you to the four winds, from one end of the Earth to the other. You'll worship all kinds of other gods, gods neither you nor your parents ever heard of, wood and stone no-gods. But you won't find a home there, you'll not be able to settle down. God will give you a restless heart, longing eyes, a homesick soul. You will live in constant jeopardy, terrified of every shadow, never knowing what you'll meet around the next corner. In the morning you'll say, "I wish it were evening." In the evening you'll say, "I wish it were morning." Afraid, terrorized at what's coming next, afraid of the unknown, because of the sights you've witnessed. God will ship you back to Egypt by a road I promised you'd never see again. There you'll offer yourselves for sale, both men and women, as slaves to your enemies. And not a buyer to be found.

New American Standard Bible
"Since you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and a cheerful heart, in gratitude for the abundance of all things,

New King James Version
"Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of everything,

New Living Translation
If you do not serve the Lord your God with joy and enthusiasm for the abundant benefits you have received,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and a glad heart, for the abundance of all things;

Legacy Standard Bible
"Because you did not serve Yahweh your God with gladness and a merry heart—because of the abundance of all things,

Contextual Overview

⁴⁵ And all these curses shall come on you and shall pursue you and overtake you, until you are destroyed; for you did not heed the voice of Jehovah your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you. ⁴⁶ And they shall be on you for a sign and for a wonder, and on your seed forever, ⁴⁷ because you did not serve Jehovah your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart for the abundance of all things, ⁴⁸ and you shall serve your enemies whom Jehovah shall send on you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in lack of all things . And He shall put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you. ⁴⁹ Jehovah shall raise a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose tongue you will not understand, ⁵⁰ a nation fierce of face, who will not regard the person of the aged, nor show favor to the young. ⁵¹ And he shall eat the fruit of your livestock, and the fruit of your land, until you are destroyed. He shall not leave to you grain, new wine, and oil, offspring of your oxen, or young ones of your flock, until he has destroyed you. ⁵² And he shall distress you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls in which you are trusting come down, in all your land; yea, he shall distress you in all your gates, in all your land which Jehovah your God has given toyou. ⁵³ And you shall eat the fruit of your body, the flesh of your sons and your daughters whom Jehovah your God has given to you, in the siege, and in the anguish with which your enemies shall distress you. ⁵⁴ The man who is tender and very delicate among you, his eye shall be evil against his brother, and against the wife of his bosom, and against the remnant of his sons which he leaves,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 12:7-12, Deuteronomy 16:11, Deuteronomy 32:13-15, Nehemiah 9:35, 1 Timothy 6:17-19

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 8:12 - Lest when Deuteronomy 11:8 - Therefore Deuteronomy 26:11 - rejoice Judges 3:14 - served Judges 4:3 - mightily Judges 6:2 - the hand Judges 15:11 - Philistines 1 Samuel 4:9 - as they have 2 Chronicles 12:8 - that they may 2 Chronicles 17:6 - his heart 2 Chronicles 36:20 - they were servants Nehemiah 5:4 - the king's tribute Psalms 100:2 - Serve Ecclesiastes 3:13 - General Ecclesiastes 3:22 - nothing Ecclesiastes 5:20 - because Ecclesiastes 7:14 - the day Jeremiah 5:19 - Like as Jeremiah 17:4 - and I Ezekiel 19:13 - she is Ezekiel 23:29 - deal Ezekiel 39:26 - when they

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Because thou servedst not the Lord thy God,.... By attending his worship, and keeping his commandments:

with joyfulness and gladness of heart, for the abundance of all [things]; which they enjoyed in the land of Canaan, a land that abounded with all good things; which laid them under great obligations to serve the Lord: and yet, as they were wanting in a ready attendance on his worship, and in a cheerful obedience to his laws, so in their sacrifices, of praise and thanksgivings for their manifold mercies; and, because of all this, the curses written in this book came upon them.

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.