Deuteronomy 28:22
New International Version
The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish.

New Living Translation
The LORD will strike you with wasting diseases, fever, and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew. These disasters will pursue you until you die.

English Standard Version
The LORD will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought and with blight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish.

Berean Standard Bible
The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
The LORD will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with severe burning fever, with the sword, with scorching, and with mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish.

New American Standard Bible
The LORD will strike you with consumption, inflammation, fever, feverish heat, and with the sword, with blight, and with mildew, and they will pursue you until you perish.

NASB 1995
“The LORD will smite you with consumption and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with the sword and with blight and with mildew, and they will pursue you until you perish.

NASB 1977
“The LORD will smite you with consumption and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with the sword and with blight and with mildew, and they shall pursue you until you perish.

Legacy Standard Bible
Yahweh will strike you with consumption and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with the sword and with scorching wind and with mildew, and they will pursue you until you perish.

Amplified Bible
The LORD will strike you with consumption [causing you to waste away] and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with the sword and with blight and with mildew [on your crops]; and they will pursue you until you perish.

Christian Standard Bible
The LORD will afflict you with wasting disease, fever, inflammation, burning heat, drought, blight, and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The LORD will afflict you with wasting disease, fever, inflammation, burning heat, drought, blight, and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.

American Standard Version
Jehovah will smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.

English Revised Version
The LORD shall smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The LORD will strike you with disease, fever, and inflammation; heat waves, drought, scorching winds, and ruined crops. They will pursue you until you die.

Good News Translation
The LORD will strike you with infectious diseases, with swelling and fever; he will send drought and scorching winds to destroy your crops. These disasters will be with you until you die.

International Standard Version
The LORD will afflict you with tuberculosis, fever, inflammation, high fever, drought, blight, and mildew. These will attack you until you are completely destroyed.

Majority Standard Bible
The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.

NET Bible
He will afflict you with weakness, fever, inflammation, infection, sword, blight, and mildew; these will attack you until you perish.

New Heart English Bible
The LORD will strike you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blight, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish.

Webster's Bible Translation
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 dost perish.

World English Bible
Yahweh will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with fiery heat, with the sword, with blight, and with mildew. They will pursue you until you perish.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
YHWH strikes you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with extreme burning, and with sword, and with blasting, and with mildew, and they have pursued you until you perish

Young's Literal Translation
'Jehovah doth smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with extreme burning, and with sword, and with blasting, and with mildew, and they have pursued thee till thou perish

Smith's Literal Translation
Jehovah shall strike thee with consumption, and with burning fever, and with inflammation, and with sword and with burning, and with blasting, and with yellowness: and they shall pursue thee till he have destroyed thee.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
May the Lord afflict thee with miser- able want, with the fever and with cold, with burning and with heat, and with corrupted air and with blasting, and pursue thee till thou perish.

Catholic Public Domain Version
May the Lord strike you with destitution, with fever and cold, with burning and heat, and with polluted air and rot, and may he pursue you until you perish.

New American Bible
The LORD will strike you with consumption, fever, and inflammation, with fiery heat and drought, with blight and mildew, that will pursue you until you perish.

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD will afflict you with consumption, fever, inflammation, with fiery heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
The LORD shall afflict you with confusion and with skin disease and with an inflammation and with burning fever and with the sword and with blasting and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
LORD JEHOVAH shall strike you with shock and with scab and with burning and with burning fever and with jaundice and with sword and by wind of parching heat, and they shall pursue you until they destroy you.
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
The LORD will smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with drought, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The Lord smite thee with distress, and fever, and cold, and inflammation, and blighting, and paleness, and they shall pursue thee until they have destroyed thee.

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Context
The Curses of Disobedience
21The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land that you are entering to possess. 22The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish. 23The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.…

Cross References
Leviticus 26:16
then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.

Amos 4:9
“I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

1 Kings 8:37
When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,

2 Chronicles 6:28
When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemies besiege them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,

Jeremiah 14:12
Although they may fast, I will not listen to their cry; although they may offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will finish them off by sword and famine and plague.”

Ezekiel 14:21
For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem My four dire judgments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—in order to cut off from it both man and beast?

Haggai 2:17
I struck you—all the work of your hands—with blight, mildew, and hail, but you did not turn to Me, declares the LORD.

Isaiah 42:25
So He poured out on them His furious anger and the fierceness of battle. It enveloped them in flames, but they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.

Jeremiah 24:10
And I will send against them sword and famine and plague, until they have perished from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.’”

Ezekiel 5:12
A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them.

Matthew 24:7
Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

Luke 21:11
There will be great earthquakes, famines, and pestilences in various places, along with fearful sights and great signs from heaven.

Revelation 6:8
Then I looked and saw a pale green horse. Its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed close behind. And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill by sword, by famine, by plague, and by the beasts of the earth.

Revelation 16:9
And the people were scorched by intense heat, and they cursed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues. Yet they did not repent and give Him glory.

Mark 13:8
Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, as well as famines. These are the beginning of birth pains.


Treasury of Scripture

The LORD shall smite you 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 you until you perish.

a consumption

Leviticus 26:16
I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

2 Chronicles 6:28
If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be:

Jeremiah 14:12
When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.

sword.

1 Kings 8:37
If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;

Amos 4:9
I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

Haggai 2:17
I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD.

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Deuteronomy 28
1. The blessings for obedience
15. The curses for disobedience














The LORD will strike you
This phrase emphasizes the sovereignty and authority of God in the lives of the Israelites. The Hebrew word for "strike" is "נָכָה" (nakah), which conveys a sense of divine intervention and judgment. In the context of Deuteronomy, this is a warning to the Israelites about the consequences of disobedience to God's commandments. Historically, this reflects the covenant relationship between God and Israel, where blessings and curses were contingent upon their faithfulness.

with wasting disease
The term "wasting disease" translates from the Hebrew "שַׁחֶפֶת" (shachepheth), indicating a debilitating illness that consumes the body. This can be seen as a metaphor for the spiritual decay that results from turning away from God. In a broader biblical context, physical ailments often symbolize spiritual maladies, reminding believers of the importance of spiritual health and obedience to God.

with fever and inflammation
"Fever" and "inflammation" are translated from "קַדַּחַת" (qaddachath) and "דַלֶּקֶת" (dalleqeth), respectively. These terms describe acute physical suffering and distress. Fever and inflammation are often used in scripture to depict the intensity of God's corrective measures. They serve as a reminder of the physical consequences of sin and the urgent need for repentance and return to God's ways.

with scorching heat and drought
The phrase "scorching heat" comes from the Hebrew "חַרְחֻר" (charchur), and "drought" from "חֶרֶב" (chereb). These natural calamities were particularly devastating in an agrarian society dependent on the land for survival. Archaeological evidence from ancient Israel shows periods of drought that would have been seen as divine punishment. This serves as a powerful reminder of humanity's dependence on God's provision and the futility of relying solely on human efforts.

with blight and mildew
"Blight" and "mildew" are translated from "שִׁדָּפוֹן" (shiddaphon) and "יֵרָקוֹן" (yerakon). These agricultural afflictions would destroy crops, leading to famine and economic hardship. In the scriptural context, they symbolize the destructive consequences of sin that affect not only individuals but the community as a whole. This highlights the communal aspect of the covenant and the collective responsibility to uphold God's laws.

which will plague you until you perish
The word "plague" is derived from the Hebrew "דָּבַק" (dabaq), meaning to cling or adhere, indicating persistent and relentless affliction. The phrase underscores the severity and inevitability of the consequences of disobedience. It serves as a sobering reminder of the seriousness of sin and the ultimate goal of God's discipline—to bring His people back to repentance and restoration.

(22) Consumption.--Only here and in Leviticus 26:16. "With which the flesh is consumed and puffed out" (Rashi).

Fever.--Only here and in Leviticus 26:16, where it is rendered "burning ague." ( Comp. Deuteronomy 32:22 : "A fire is kindled in mine anger.")

Inflammation.--Here only. The word is derived from a verb signifying to burn, or pursue hotly, like a fire that hastens on its way. "A heat greater than the fever" (Rashi).

Extreme burning.--Here only. "A disease which heats the body inwardly" (Rashi).

Blasting and mildew.--"I have smitten you with blasting and with mildew" (Amos 4:9, same words). (See also 1Kings 8:37, where "pestilence, blasting, and mildew" are contemplated as possibilities, very probably in view of this curse. Also Haggai 2:17.) . . .

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The LORD
יְ֠הוָה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

will strike you
יַכְּכָ֣ה (yak·kə·ḵāh)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5221: To strike

with wasting disease,
בַּשַּׁחֶ֨פֶת (baš·ša·ḥe·p̄eṯ)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 7829: (a wasting disease) consumption

with fever
וּבַקַּדַּ֜חַת (ū·ḇaq·qad·da·ḥaṯ)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 6920: Inflammation, febrile disease

and inflammation,
וּבַדַּלֶּ֗קֶת (ū·ḇad·dal·le·qeṯ)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 1816: A burning fever

with severe heat
וּבַֽחַרְחֻר֙ (ū·ḇa·ḥar·ḥur)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2746: Violent heat, fever

and drought,
וּבַחֶ֔רֶב (ū·ḇa·ḥe·reḇ)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2719: Drought, a cutting instrument, as a, knife, sword

with blight
וּבַשִּׁדָּפ֖וֹן (ū·ḇaš·šid·dā·p̄ō·wn)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7711: Blighted or blasted thing

and mildew;
וּבַיֵּרָק֑וֹן (ū·ḇay·yê·rā·qō·wn)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3420: Mildew, paleness, lividness

these will pursue
וּרְדָפ֖וּךָ (ū·rə·ḏā·p̄ū·ḵā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural | second person masculine singular
Strong's 7291: To pursue, chase, persecute

you until
עַ֥ד (‘aḏ)
Preposition
Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

you perish.
אָבְדֶֽךָ׃ (’ā·ḇə·ḏe·ḵā)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 6: To wander away, lose oneself, to perish


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