61The LORD will also bring upon you every sickness and plague not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed. 62You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left few in number, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
63Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and multiply, so also it will please Him to annihilate you and destroy you. And you will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.
64Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known. 65Among those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.
66So your life will hang in doubt before you, and you will be afraid night and day, never certain of survival. 67In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread in your hearts of the terrifying sights you will see.
68The LORD will return you to Egypt in ships by a route that I said you should never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”
DOTH
“For though he doth not delight in the death of a sinner in itself, yet he doth doubtless delight in the glorifying of his justice upon incorrigible sinners, seeing the exercise of all his attributes must needs please him, else he were not perfectly happy.” (Poole)
Doth. To do; to produce; make.
Sometimes we joke and poke fun of words of the past that aren’t used in today’s English speaking society but as we see in Poole’s commentary it’s not funny!
This chapter isn’t fun to read or digest because of ALL THE CURSES which HE would eventually doth to the Israelites. I suspect their children weren’t easy to digest either, physically speaking and eluding to one of the curses in this chapter!
Sin slowly corrupts, little by little. It took generations before He doth all these curses! Think of the woodsman with a small hatchet cutting down a large tree. Each swing whittles a small chip of the tree trunk. Now consider it sin and with each swing it slowly gets worse until the fall. That’s what sin does to us.
Sin is the curse of curses!
We can’t take away the curse of this world but we can break the curse of sin by accepting the free gift of Salvation and coming to Christ!
Does the world know you are HIS or do you act like one of the incorrigible sinners that are cursed?
Blessings
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