Deuteronomy 28:48

Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
serve	וְעָבַדְתָּ֣ ve.'a.vad.Ta	H5647	to work (in any sense) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 2nd person masculine singular
enemies	אֹיְבֶ֗יךָ 'o.ye.Vei.kha	H341	hating · verb, qal active participle, masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
LORD	יְהוָה֙ Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
send	יְשַׁלְּחֶ֤נּוּ ye.shal.le.Che.nu	H7971	to send away · verb, piel imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
hunger	בְּרָעָ֧ב be.ra.'Av	H7458	hunger (more or less extensive) · preposition + noun, common masculine singular absolute
thirst	וּבְצָמָ֛א u.ve.tza.Ma'	H6772	thirst (literally or figuratively) · conjunction + preposition + noun, common masculine singular absolute
nakedness	וּבְעֵירֹ֖ם u.ve.'ei.Rom	H5903	nudity · conjunction + preposition + adjective, masculine singular absolute
want	וּבְחֹ֣סֶר u.ve.Cho.ser	H2640	poverty · conjunction + preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct
put	וְנָתַ֞ן ve.na.Tan	H5414	to give · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
yoke	עֹ֤ל 'ol	H5923	a yoke (as imposed on the neck) · noun, common masculine singular construct
iron	בַּרְזֶל֙ bar.Zel	H1270	iron (as cutting) · noun, common masculine singular absolute
neck	צַוָּארֶ֔ךָ tza.va.Re.kha	H6677	the back of the neck (as that on which burdens are boun… · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
destroyed	הִשְׁמִיד֖וֹ hish.mi.Do	H8045	to desolate · verb, hiphil infinitive construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Jeremiah 28:13-14 Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.
Nehemiah 9:35-37 For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou ga…
Jeremiah 44:17-18 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink…
Jeremiah 44:22 So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefor…
Jeremiah 44:27 Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the s…
Lamentations 5:2-6 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Ezekiel 4:16-17 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with car…
Ezekiel 17:12 Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and hath t…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 28:45–end

One would have thought that enough had been said to possess them with a dread of that wrath of God which is revealed from heaven against the ungodliness and unrighteousness of men. But to show how deep the treasures of that wrath are, and that still there is more and worse behind, Moses, when one would have thought that he had concluded this dismal subject, begins again, and adds to this roll of curses many similar words: as Jeremiah did to his, Jer 36:32. It should seem that in the former part of this commination Moses foretells their captivity in Babylon, and the calamities which introduced and attended that, by which, even after their return, they were brought to that low and poor conditi…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 28:37

And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee, &c.--The annals of almost every nation, for eighteen hundred years, afford abundant proofs that this has been, as it still is, the case--the very name of Jew being a universally recognized term for extreme degradation and wretchedness.

John Gill on Deuteronomy 28:48

Therefore shall thou serve thine enemies, which the Lord shall send against thee,.... Since they would not serve the Lord their God, who was so good a master to them, and supplied them with all good things, and with plenty of them, they should serve other lords, their enemies, whom God would raise up and send against them; not only, the Assyrians, Chaldeans, and Babylonians, but the Romans, after described, whom they should find hard masters, and from whom they; should have very severe usage, and should be in hunger and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all good things; being destitute of food, and drink and raiment, and the common necessaries of life, and so in famishing and star…

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John Calvin on Deuteronomy 28:15–end

Dictionary and topics

Heathen — (Heb. plural goyum). At first the word goyim denoted generally all the nations of the world (Gen. 18:18; comp. Gal. 3:8). The Jews afterwards became a people distinguished in a marked manner from the…
Iron — Tubal-Cain is the first-mentioned worker in iron (Gen. 4:22). The Egyptians wrought it at Sinai before the Exodus. David prepared it in great abundance for the temple (1 Chr. 22:3: 29:7). The…
Jerusalem — Called also Salem, Ariel, Jebus, the “city of God,” the “holy city;” by the modern Arabs el-Khuds, meaning “the holy;” once “the city of Judah” (2 Chr. 25:28). This name is in the original in the…
Neck — Used sometimes figuratively. To “lay down the neck” (Rom. 16:4) is to hazard one’s life. Threatenings of coming judgments are represented by the prophets by their laying bands upon the people’s necks…
Backsliders · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Ingratitude · OF MAN TO GOD — OF MAN TO GOD
Iron · Yokes — Yokes
Judgments · General references — General references
Obedience · ENJOINED — ENJOINED
Obedience To God · Punishment of refusing — Punishment of refusing
Reprobacy · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Deuteronomy 28:48

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 28:45–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 28:37

John Gill on Deuteronomy 28:48

John Calvin on Deuteronomy 28:15–end

Dictionary and topics

Deuteronomy 28:48

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 28:45–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 28:37

John Gill on Deuteronomy 28:48

John Calvin on Deuteronomy 28:15–end

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Deuteronomy 28:15–end

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Deuteronomy 28:48

Rashi on Deuteronomy 28:47