Deuteronomy 28:32 Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:32

32: You will watch as your sons and daughters are taken away as slaves. Your heart will break as you long for them, but nothing you do will help.

You will have sons and daughters, but you will not keep them, for they will be led away into captivity.

You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, who took them far from their homeland.

Our fathers have been killed in battle, and our sons and daughters and wives are in captivity.

You will be cursed with few children and barren fields. You will be cursed with infertile herds and flocks.

Writhe and groan in terrible pain, you people of Jerusalem, for you must leave this city to live in the open fields. You will soon be sent into exile in distant Babylon. But the LORD will rescue you there; he will redeem you from the grip of your enemies.

Your destruction is certain, O people of Moab! You are finished, O worshipers of Chemosh! Chemosh has left his sons as refugees, and his daughters as captives of Sihon, the Amorite king.

I am exhausted from crying for help; my throat is parched and dry. My eyes are swollen with weeping, waiting for my God to help me.

My eyes strain to see your deliverance, to see the truth of your promise fulfilled.

But the wicked will lose hope. They have no escape. Their hope becomes despair."

We looked in vain for our allies to come and save us, but we were looking to nations that could offer no help at all.

They denounce their companions for their own advantage, so let their children faint with hunger.

So I will send you into exile, to a land east of Damascus," says the LORD, whose name is God Almighty.

I have cried until the tears no longer come. My heart is broken, my spirit poured out, as I see what has happened to my people. Little children and tiny babies are fainting and dying in the streets.

Delirious, I chattered like a swallow or a crane, and then I moaned like a mourning dove. My eyes grew tired of looking to heaven for help. I am in trouble, Lord. Help me!"

They were saying, "We have such large families. We need more money just so we can buy the food we need to survive."
Others said, "We have mortgaged our fields, vineyards, and homes to get food during the famine."
And others said, "We have already borrowed to the limit on our fields and vineyards to pay our taxes.
We belong to the same family, and our children are just like theirs. Yet we must sell our children into slavery just to get enough money to live. We have already sold some of our daughters, and we are helpless to do anything about it, for our fields and vineyards are already mortgaged to others."

I will winnow you like grain at the gates of your cities and take away everything you hold dear. I will destroy my own people, because they refuse to turn back to me from all their evil ways.
"There will be more widows than the grains of sand along the seashore. At noontime I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of young men. I will cause anguish and terror to come upon them suddenly.
The mother of seven grows faint and gasps for breath; her sun has gone down while it is yet day. She sits childless now, disgraced and humiliated. And those who are left, I will hand over to the enemy to be killed," says the LORD.

Then the LORD said to me, "Son of man, on the day I take away their stronghold--their joy and glory, their heart's desire, their dearest treasure--I will also take away their sons and daughters.

"Do not marry or have children in this place.
For this is what the LORD says about the children born here in this city and about their mothers and fathers:
They will die from terrible diseases. No one will mourn for them or bury them, and they will lie scattered on the ground like dung. They will die from war and famine, and their bodies will be food for the vultures and wild animals.

There among those nations you will find no place of security and rest. And the LORD will cause your heart to tremble, your eyesight to fail, and your soul to despair.

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