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Deuteronomy 28:32

Deuteronomy 28:32 is verse 32 of Deuteronomy chapter 28, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.

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King James Version

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:

World English Bible

Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power in your hand.

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Deuteronomy 28:30–34 · Berean Standard Bible

30 You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not enjoy its fruit.

31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will save you.

32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.

33 A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.

34 You will be driven mad by the sights you see.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Deuteronomy 28:18

The fruit of your womb will be cursed, as well as the produce of your land, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.

Deuteronomy 28:41

You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.

Numbers 21:29

Woe to you, O Moab! You are destroyed, O people of Chemosh! He gave up his sons as refugees, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.

2 Chronicles 29:9

For behold, this is why our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives are in captivity.

Nehemiah 5:2

Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous. We must get grain in order to eat and stay alive.”

Nehemiah 5:3

Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our homes to get grain during the famine.”

Nehemiah 5:4

Still others were saying, “We have borrowed money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.

Nehemiah 5:5

We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, but we are powerless to redeem them because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”

Jeremiah 15:7

I will scatter them with a winnowing fork at the gates of the land. I will bereave and destroy My people who have not turned from their ways.

Jeremiah 15:8

I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and dismay.

Jeremiah 15:9

The mother of seven will grow faint; she will breathe her last breath. Her sun will set while it is still day; she will be disgraced and humiliated. And the rest I will put to the sword in the presence of their enemies,” declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 16:2

“You must not marry or have sons or daughters in this place.”

Jeremiah 16:3

For this is what the LORD says concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, and the mothers who bore them, and the fathers who fathered them in this land:

Jeremiah 16:4

“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 and beasts of the earth.”

Ezekiel 24:25

And you, son of man, know that on the day I take away their stronghold, their pride and joy—the desire of their eyes which uplifted their souls—and their sons and daughters as well,

Joel 3:6

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

Amos 5:27

Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.

Micah 4:10

Writhe in agony, O Daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor. For now you will leave the city and camp in the open fields. You will go to Babylon; there you will be rescued; there the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies!

Deuteronomy 28:65

Among those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.

Job 11:20

But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; they will hope for their last breath.”

Job 17:5

If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.

Psalms 69:3

I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

Psalms 119:82

My eyes fail, looking for Your promise; I ask, “When will You comfort me?”

Psalms 119:123

My eyes fail, looking for Your salvation, and for Your righteous promise.

Isaiah 38:14

I chirp like a swallow or crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.”

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

Lamentations 4:17

All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.

Lamentations 5:17

Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—

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