Deuteronomy 28:21 “The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has exterminated y…”

Deuteronomy 28:21

The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land that you are entering to possess.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

The LORD will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from off the land where you go in to possess it.

American Standard Version

Jehovah will make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest in to possess it.

Geneva Bible 1599

The Lord shall make the pestilence cleaue vnto thee, vntill he hath consumed thee from the land, whither thou goest to possesse it.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

'Jehovah doth cause to cleave to thee the pestilence, till He consume thee from off the ground whither thou art going in to possess it.

Bible in Basic English

The Lord will send disease after disease on you, till you have been cut off by death from the land to which you are going.

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Cross references

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

Leviticus 26:25 Jeremiah 24:10 Numbers 14:12 Jeremiah 15:2 Jeremiah 16:4 Numbers 25:9

Leviticus 26:25 · BSB

And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

Jeremiah 24:10 · BSB

And I will send against them sword and famine and plague, until they have perished from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.’”

Numbers 14:12 · BSB

I will strike them with a plague and destroy them—and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are.”

Jeremiah 15:2 · BSB

If they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘Those destined for death, to death; those destined for the sword, to the sword; those destined for famine, to famine; and those…

Jeremiah 16:4 · BSB

“They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried, but will lie like dung on the ground. They will be finished off by sword and famine, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the air an…

Numbers 25:9 · BSB

but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

20The LORD will send curses upon you, confusion and reproof in all to which you put your hand, until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the wickedness you have committed in forsaking Him.

22The 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.

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