Deuteronomy 28:13-22 –
The Lord will make you the head, not the tail. If
you pay attention to the commands of the Lord your God that I give you this day and
carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom. Do not turn aside from any
of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left, following other
gods and serving them. However, if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all
his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and
overtake you: You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.
Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed. The fruit of your
womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds
and the lambs of your flocks. You will be cursed when you come in and
cursed when you go out. The Lord will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until
you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him. The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has
destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess. The Lord will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with
scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish.
Joshua
1:7 – “Be strong and very
courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my
servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to
the left, that you may be successful wherever you go.
Deuteronomy 27:26 – “Cursed is anyone who does not uphold the
words of this law by carrying them out.” Then all the people shall say,
“Amen!”
Jeremiah 14:1-2 – This is the word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the
drought: “Judah mourns, her cities languish; they
wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.
Application:
- · Success was not guaranteed unconditionally.
- · Humankind is under a curse because no one follows the law of God fully.
- · Drought was one of the curses threatened for disobedience to the covenant.
All Scripture verses taken from NIV
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