These curses will be a sign and a wonder upon you and your descendants forever.
Parallel translations
- WEB They will be for a sign and for a wonder to you and to your offspring forever.
- KJV And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.
- NKJV And they shall be upon you for a sign and a wonder, and on your descendants forever.
- NASB And they will become a sign and a wonder against you and your descendants forever.
- NLT These horrors will serve as a sign and warning among you and your descendants forever.
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Quick answer
These curses will stand as a lasting sign and warning to Israel and their descendants.
Overview
The judgments serve a teaching purpose, marking the seriousness of the covenant for generations. They become enduring testimony to God's faithfulness to his word, in warning as well as promise. This perpetual sign calls later generations to fear God and obey.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Isa 8:18Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me as signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD of Hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
- Deut 28:37You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
- Ezek 14:8I will set My face against that man and make him a sign and a proverb; I will cut him off from among My people. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
- Jer 25:18to make them a ruin, an object of horror and contempt and cursing, as they are to this day—Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials;
- Jer 19:8I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
- Deut 28:59He will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary disasters, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.
- Deut 29:20The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven
- Deut 29:28The LORD uprooted them from their land in His anger, rage, and great wrath, and He cast them into another land, where they are today.’
- 1 Cor 10:11Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.
- Ezek 23:32–33This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You will drink your sister’s cup, a cup deep and wide. It will bring scorn and derision, for it holds so much.
- Ezek 36:20And wherever they went among the nations, they profaned My holy name, because it was said of them, ‘These are the people of the LORD, yet they had to leave His land.’
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Moses promised a Prophet like himself to whom Israel must listen (18:15); Jesus is that Prophet, the one who keeps the covenant we broke and becomes the curse for us by hanging on a tree (Gal 3:13).
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