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Deuteronomy 28:48

you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

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ASV

therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies that Jehovah 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.

KJV

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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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְעָבַדְתָּ֣ve.'a.vad.Taand you will serveH5647 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
אֹיְבֶ֗יךָ'o.ye.Vei.khaenemies yourH341 →
אֲשֶׁ֨ר'a.SherwhomH834 →
יְשַׁלְּחֶ֤נּוּye.shal.le.Che.nuhe will send forth himH7971 →
יְהוָה֙Yah.wehYahwehH3068 →
בָּ֔ךְBakhon <the> you
בְּרָעָ֧בbe.ra.'Avin hungerH7458 →
וּבְצָמָ֛אu.ve.tza.Ma'and in thirstH6772 →
וּבְעֵירֹ֖םu.ve.'ei.Romand in nakednessH5903 →
וּבְחֹ֣סֶרu.ve.Cho.serand in lack ofH2640 →
כֹּ֑לKoleverythingH3605 →
וְנָתַ֞ןve.na.Tanand he will putH5414 →
עֹ֤ל'ola yoke ofH5923 →
בַּרְזֶל֙bar.ZelironH1270 →
עַל־'al-onH5921 →
צַוָּארֶ֔ךָtza.va.Re.khaneck yourH6677 →
עַ֥ד'aduntilH5704 →
הִשְׁמִיד֖וֹhish.mi.Dohas destroyed heH8045 →
אֹתָֽךְ׃'o.Takh<obj.> youH853 →

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Jeremiah 28:14For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations to make them serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they will serve him. I have even given him control of the beasts of the field.’”Jeremiah 28:13–14“Go and tell Hananiah that this is what the LORD says: ‘You have broken a yoke of wood, but in its place you have fashioned a yoke of iron.’Ecclesiastes 4:1Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.Lamentations 1:14My transgressions are bound into a yoke, knit together by His hand; they are draped over my neck, and the Lord has broken my strength. He has delivered me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.Nehemiah 9:37Its abundant harvest goes to the kings You have set over us because of our sins. And they rule over our bodies and our livestock as they please. We are in great distress.1 Kings 8:33When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, praying and pleading with You in this temple,Jeremiah 44:27I am watching over them for harm and not for good, and every man of Judah who is in the land of Egypt will meet his end by sword or famine, until they are finished off.Nehemiah 9:35–37For even while they were in their kingdom, with the abundant goodness that You had given them, and in the spacious and fertile land that You had set before them, they would not serve You or turn from their wicked ways.Ezekiel 17:12“Now say to this rebellious house: ‘Do you not know what these things mean?’ Tell them, ‘Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, carried off its king and officials, and brought them back with him to Babylon.Lamentations 5:2–6Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.Jeremiah 44:22So the LORD could no longer endure the evil deeds and detestable acts you committed, and your land became a desolation, a horror, and an object of cursing, without inhabitant, as it is this day.Jeremiah 44:17–18Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and good things, and we saw no disaster.Ezekiel 4:16–17Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure.Lamentations 5:5We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.Jeremiah 2:25You should have kept your feet from going bare and your throat from being thirsty. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! For I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’Nehemiah 9:36So here we are today as slaves in the land You gave our fathers to enjoy its fruit and goodness—here we are as slaves!2 Chronicles 12:8Nevertheless, they will become his servants, so that they may learn the difference between serving Me and serving the kings of other lands.”Ezekiel 17:7But there was another great eagle with great wings and many feathers. And behold, this vine bent its roots toward him. It stretched out its branches to him from its planting bed, so that he might water it.

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