Deuteronomy 30:7

Then the LORD your God will put all these curses upon your enemies who hate you and persecute you.

Berean Standard Bible

Study note

Setting — Moses addresses Israel regarding the covenant transition, positioning this promise immediately after the call to love God and before the command to obey His voice. The words — נָתַן (na.Tan) = he will put [H5414]; אָל֖וֹת ('a.Lot) = oaths [H423]. The thread — This pattern of God placing judgment on opposing nations appears in Deuteronomy 7:15, Lamentations 4:21, and Jeremiah 51:24. Why it lands — It requires the reader to acknowledge that divine justice targets those who persecute God's people, while framing obedience as the necessary response.

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The Hebrew words

וְנָתַן֙ve./na.Tanand/ he will put יְהוָ֣הYah.wehYahweh אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ'e.lo.Hei./khaGod/ your אֵ֥ת'et<obj.>כָּל־kol-all הָאָל֖וֹתha./'a.Lotthe/ oaths הָאֵ֑לֶּהha./'E.leh<the>/ these עַל־'al-on אֹיְבֶ֥יךָ'o.ye.Vei./khaenemies/ your וְעַל־ve./'al-and/ on שֹׂנְאֶ֖יךָso.ne.'Ei./kha[those who] hate/ you אֲשֶׁ֥ר'a.Sherwho רְדָפֽוּךָ׃re.da.Fu./khathey have persecuted/ you

King James Version

And the Lord thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.

Cross-references

Deuteronomy 7:15 And the LORD will remove from you all sickness. He will not lay upon you any of the terrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but He will inflict them on all who hate you.
Lamentations 4:21 So rejoice and be glad, O Daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz. Yet the cup will pass to you as well; you will get drunk and expose yourself.
Jeremiah 51:24 Before your very eyes I will repay Babylon and all the dwellers of Chaldea for all the evil they have done in Zion,” declares the LORD.
Ezekiel 25:12 This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because Edom acted vengefully against the house of Judah, and in so doing incurred grievous guilt,
Numbers 24:14 Now I am going back to my people, but come, let me warn you what this people will do to your people in the days to come.”
Isaiah 10:12 So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes.
Isaiah 14:1 For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.
Psalms 137:7 Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”
Jeremiah 25:12 But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.
Jeremiah 25:29 For behold, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears My Name, so how could you possibly go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the LORD of Hosts.’