Deuteronomy 28 · Verse 59

Deuteronomy 28:59

Then the Lord will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
Deuteronomy 28:59, King James Version

Deuteronomy 28:59 in other translations

BSBHe will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary disasters, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.
WEBthen the LORD will make your plagues and the plagues of your offspring fearful, even great plagues, and of long duration, and severe sicknesses, and of long duration.
ASVthen Jehovah will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
YLTthen hath Jehovah made wonderful thy strokes, and the strokes of thy seed--great strokes, and stedfast, and evil sicknesses, and stedfast.
DARBYthen Jehovah will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, great and persistent plagues and evil and persistent sicknesses;
BBEThen the Lord your God will make your punishment, and the punishment of your seed, a thing to be wondered at; great punishments and cruel diseases stretching on through long years.
WebsterThen the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and severe sicknesses, and of long continuance.

What does Deuteronomy 28:59 mean?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 28:45-68

If God inflicts vengeance, what miseries his curse can bring upon mankind, even in this present world! Yet these are but the beginning of sorrows to those under the curse of God. What then will be the misery of that world where their worm dieth not, and their fire is not quenched! Observe what is here said of the wrath of God, which should come and remain upon the Israelites for their sins. It is amazing to think…

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Deuteronomy 28:59 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.

וְהִפְלָ֤אve.hif.La'and he will make extraordinaryH6381
יְהוָה֙Yah.wehYahwehH3068
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
מַכֹּ֣תְךָ֔ma.Ko.te.khaplagues yourH4347
וְאֵ֖תve.'Etand <obj.>H853
מַכּ֣וֹתma.Kot[the] plagues ofH4347
זַרְעֶ֑ךָzar.'E.khaoffspring yourH2233
מַכּ֤וֹתma.KotplaguesH4347
גְּדֹלוֹת֙ge.do.lOtgreatH1419
וְנֶ֣אֱמָנ֔וֹתve.Ne.'e.ma.Notand lastingH539
וָחֳלָיִ֥םvo.cho.la.Yimand sicknessesH2483
רָעִ֖יםra.'ImharmfulH7451
וְנֶאֱמָנִֽים\׃ve.ne.'e.ma.Nimand lastingH539

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Cross references for Deuteronomy 28:59

  • Mark 13:19

    For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.

  • Daniel 9:12

    And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem.

  • Deuteronomy 29:20-28

    The Lord will not spare him, but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven. And the Lord shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law: So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the Lord hath laid upon it; And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: …

  • 1 Kings 16:3-4

    Behold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and the posterity of his house; and will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat. Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat.

  • Deuteronomy 31:17-18

    Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us? And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.

  • 1 Kings 9:7-9

    Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people: And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house? And they shall answer, Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the Lord brought upon them all this evil.

  • Lamentations 1:9

    Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O Lord, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.

  • Deuteronomy 32:22

    For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

  • Deuteronomy 32:26

    I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

  • Deuteronomy 28:46

    And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.

  • Hosea 3:4

    For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:

  • Lamentations 1:12

    Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

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46; 29:20-28; 31:17,18; 32:22,26; 1Ki 9:7-9; 16:3,4; La 1:9,12
La 4:12; Da 9:12; Ho 3:4; Mr 13:19

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Context

  • Deuteronomy 28:58

    If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD;

  • Deuteronomy 28:59

    Then the Lord will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.

  • Deuteronomy 28:60

    Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.

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Deuteronomy 28:59 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Jehová aumentará maravillosamente tus plagas y las plagas de tu simiente, plagas grandes y estables, y enfermedades malignas y duraderas;
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
alors l’ Éternel rendra extraordinaires tes plaies et les plaies de ta semence, te frappant de plaies grandes et opiniâtres, de maladies mauvaises et opiniâtres;
German
Elberfelder 1871
so wird Jehova deine Plagen und die Plagen deines Samens außergewöhnlich machen: große und andauernde Plagen, und böse und andauernde Krankheiten.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
augebit Dominus plagas tuas, et plagas seminis tui, plagas magnas et perseverantes, infirmitates pessimas et perpetuas: