From: ngninja@baptist.email   
      
   Bible Reading for March 8   
      
   Deuteronomy Chapter 28   
      
   1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the   
   voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments   
   which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on   
   high above all nations of the earth:   
      
   2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou   
   shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.   
      
   3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.   
      
   4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground,   
   and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of   
   thy sheep.   
      
   5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.   
      
   6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be   
   when thou goest out.   
      
   7 The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be   
   smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and   
   flee before thee seven ways.   
      
   8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and   
   in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the   
   land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.   
      
   9 The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath   
   sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy   
   God, and walk in his ways.   
      
   10 And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the   
   name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.   
      
   11 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy   
   body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in   
   the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.   
      
   12 The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give   
   the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine   
   hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.   
      
   13 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou   
   shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken   
   unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this   
   day, to observe and to do them:   
      
   14 And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command   
   thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods   
   to serve them.   
      
   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.   
      
   25 The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou   
   shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and   
   shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.   
      
   26 And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the   
   beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.   
      
   27 The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the   
   emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be   
   healed.   
      
   28 The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and   
   astonishment of heart:   
      
   29 And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness,   
   and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed   
   and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.   
      
   30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou   
   shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant   
   a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.   
      
   31 Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat   
   thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face,   
   and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine   
   enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them.   
      
   32 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and   
   thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long:   
   and there shall be no might in thine hand.   
      
   33 The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou   
   knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:   
      
   34 So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou   
   shalt see.   
      
   35 The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore   
   botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of   
   thy head.   
      
   36 The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over   
   thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and   
   there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.   
      
   37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among   
   all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.   
      
   38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but   
   little in; for the locust shall consume it.   
      
   39 Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink   
   of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.   
      
   40 Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt   
   not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.   
      
   41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them;   
   for they shall go into captivity.   
      
   42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.   
      
   43 The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high;   
   and thou shalt come down very low.   
      
   44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be   
   the head, and thou shalt be the tail.   
      
   45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue   
   thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou   
   hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his   
   commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:   
      
      
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