World English Bible
Deuteronomy 28:47
“Because you didn't serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;”
Verse in context — Deuteronomy 28
All these curses shall come on you, and shall pursue you, and overtake you, until you are destroyed; because you didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you:
and they shall be on you for a sign and for a wonder, and on your seed forever.
Because you didn't serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;
therefore you shall serve your enemies whom Yahweh shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he has destroyed you.
Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you shall not understand;
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Moses’ final speeches, reminding Israel of God’s law before entering the Promised Land.
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