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Deuteronomy 28:47

World English Bible

Because you didn’t serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;

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Deuteronomy 28:47 in other translations

Because thou servedst not Jehovah thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;

Deuteronomy 28:47 · American Standard Version

Deuteronomy 28:47 in context

  1. 45All these curses will come on you, and will pursue you and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you didn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you.
  2. 46They will be for a sign and for a wonder to you and to your offspring forever.
  3. 47Because you didn’t serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;
  4. 48therefore you will serve your enemies whom Yahweh sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.
  5. 49Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies: a nation whose language you will not understand,