Deuteronomy 28 · Verse 22

Deuteronomy 28:22

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.
Deuteronomy 28:22, King James Version

Deuteronomy 28:22 in other translations

BSBThe 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.
WEBThe LORD 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.
ASVJehovah 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.
YLT‘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
DARBYJehovah will smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with burning ague, and with drought, and with blight, and with mildew, and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
BBEThe Lord will send wasting disease, and burning pain, and flaming heat against you, keeping back the rain till your land is waste and dead; so will it be till your destruction is complete.
WebsterThe 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.

What does Deuteronomy 28:22 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
22. a consumption--a wasting disorder; but the modern tuberculosis is almost unknown in Asia. fever ... inflammation ... extreme burning--Fever is rendered "burning ague" (Le 26:16), and the others mentioned along with it evidently point to those febrile affections which are of malignant character and great frequency in the East. the sword--rather, "dryness"--the effect on the human body of such violent disorders. blasting, and with mildew--two atmospheric influences fatal to grain.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 22 Consumption - שחפת shachepheth, atrophy through lack of food; from שחף shacaph, to be in want. Fever - קדחת kaddachath, from קדח kadach, to be kindled, burn, sparkle; a burning inflammatory fever. Inflammation - דלקת dalleketh, from דלק dalak, to pursue eagerly, to burn after; probably a rapidly consuming cancer. Extreme burning - חרחר charchur, burning upon burning, scald upon scald; from חר char, to be heated, enraged, etc. This probably refers, not only to excruciating inflammations on the body, but also to the irritation and agony of a mind utterly abandoned by God, and lost to hope. What an accumulation of misery! how formidable! and especially in a land where great heat was prevalent and dreadful. Sword - War in general, enemies without, and civil broils within. This was remarkably the case in the last siege of Jerusalem. Blasting - שדפון shiddaphon, probably either the blighting east wind that ruined vegetation, or those awful pestilential winds which suffocate both man and beast wherever they come. These often prevail in different parts of the East, and several examples have already been given. See Gen 41:6 (note). Mildew - ירקון yerakon, an exudation of the vegetative juice from different parts of the stalk, by which the maturity and perfection of the plant are utterly prevented. It comes from ירק yarak, to throw out moisture. Of these seven plagues, the five former were to fall on their bodies, the two latter upon their substance. What a fearful thing it is to fall into the hands of the living God!

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 28:15-44

If we do not keep God's commandments, we not only come short of the blessing promised, but we lay ourselves under the curse, which includes all misery, as the blessing all happiness. Observe the justice of this curse. It is not a curse causeless, or for some light cause. The extent and power of this curse. Wherever the sinner goes, the curse of God follows; wherever he is, it rests upon him. Whatever he has is under…

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Deuteronomy 28:22 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

יַכְּכָ֣הya.ke.Khahhe will strike youH5221
יְ֠הוָהYah.wehYahwehH3068
בַּשַּׁחֶ֨פֶתba.sha.Che.fetwith <the> consumptionH7829
וּבַקַּדַּ֜חַתu.vak.ka.Da.chatand with <the> feverH6920
וּבַדַּלֶּ֗קֶתu.vad.da.Le.ketand with <the> inflammationH1816
וּבַֽחַרְחֻר֙u.va.char.Churand with <the> feverish heatH2746
וּבַחֶ֔רֶבu.va.Che.revand with the swordH2719
וּבַשִּׁדָּפ֖וֹןu.vash.shi.da.Fonand with <the> blightH7711
וּבַיֵּרָק֑וֹןu.vai.ye.ra.Konand with <the> mildewH3420
וּרְדָפ֖וּךָu.re.da.Fu.khaand they will pursue youH7291
עַ֥ד'aduntilH5704
אָבְדֶֽךָ\׃'a.ve.De.khaperishing youH6

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Cross references for Deuteronomy 28:22

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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;

  • 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.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
a consumption.
Le 26:16; 2Ch 6:28; Jer 14:12
sword. or, drought. blasting.
1Ki 8:37; Am 4:9; Hag 2:17

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Context

  • Deuteronomy 28:21

    The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.

  • Deuteronomy 28:22

    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.

  • Deuteronomy 28:23

    And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.

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Deuteronomy 28:22 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Jehová te herirá de tisis, y de fiebre, y de ardor, y de calor, y de cuchillo, y de calamidad repentina, y con añublo; y perseguirte han hasta que perezcas.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		L’ Éternel te frappera de consomption, et de fièvre, et d’inflammation, et de chaleur brûlante, et de sécheresse, et par la brûlure, et par la rouille, et elles te poursuivront jusqu’à ce que tu périsses.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Jehova wird dich schlagen mit Schwindsucht und mit Fieberglut und mit Hitze und mit Entzündung, und mit Dürre und mit Kornbrand und mit Vergilben des Getreides, und sie werden dich verfolgen, bis du umkommst.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Percutiat te Dominus egestate, febri et frigore, ardore et æstu, et aëre corrupto ac rubigine, et persequatur donec pereas.