Deuteronomy 28:41
Good News Translation
You will have sons and daughters, but you will lose them, because they will be taken away as prisoners of war.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall have sons and daughters, but they shall not remain yours, for they shall go into captivity.

Contemporary English Version
Even your children will be taken as prisoners of war.

New American Bible
Though you beget sons and daughters, they will not remain with you, for they will go into captivity.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, and shalt not enjoy them: because they shall be led into captivity.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, and shalt not enjoy them: because they shall be led into captivity.

Deuteronomy 28:32 May thy sons and thy daughters be given to another people, thy eyes looking on, and languishing at the sight of them all the day, and may there be no strength in thy hand.

Lamentations 1:5 He. Her adversaries are become her lords; her enemies are enriched; because the Lord hath spoken against her for the multitude of her iniquities; her children are led into captivity, before the face of the oppressor.

Context
The Curses of Disobedience
40Thou shalt have olive trees in all thy borders, and shalt not be anointed with the oil: for the olives shall fall off and perish. 41Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, and shalt not enjoy them: because they shall be led into captivity.42The blast shall consume all the trees and the fruits of thy ground.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:32
May thy sons and thy daughters be given to another people, thy eyes looking on, and languishing at the sight of them all the day, and may there be no strength in thy hand.

2 Chronicles 28:8
And the children of Israel carried away of their brethren two hundred thousand women, boys, and girls, and an immense booty: and they brought it to Samaria.

Lamentations 1:18
Sade. The Lord is just, for I have provoked his mouth to wrath: hear, I pray you, all ye people, and see my sorrow: my virgins, and my young men are gone into captivity.

Deuteronomy 28:40
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