Deuteronomy (The Speeches of Moses) - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 204
The Five Books of Moses
shall consume the produce of your farms, and all your acquisitions; and you shall be plundered, and oppressed at every time, and be maddened by the sights your eyes shall see. The Evan-Lxvxno will inflict you
with a bad ulcer on your knees, and on your legs, which you cannot cure, from the sole of your foot to your crown ! The EVER-Lrvmo will make you, and the kings you have raised over yourselves, go to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve vile gods of wood and stone; and become a word of reproach and abuse among all the Peoples where the EVER-L1v1NG drives you ! You shall take much seed out to
the field, and reap little, for the locust shall destroy l You shall plant avine· yard,—-—but not drink its wine, nor collect its grapes;-—for the worm shall consume them. Olive groves shall be in all your fields, but you shall not refresh yourselves with oil,——for the olives shall drop off l You shall beget sons and daughters,—·-but they shall not be yours, but shall go to slavery! The caterpillar shall seize all your trees, and the fruits of your flelds l The foreigner who is amongst you
shall climb up above you from station to station,—·-but you shall sink lower and lower! He shall lend to you, he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail ! And all these curses shall come
upon you, and pursue, and hunt you to destruction, because you have not listened to the voice of your EVER- Ltvme Gon, to preserve His Com- mands and the Institutions which He ordained for you, and which should have been a guide and instruction to you, and to your posterity for ever. But as you served not your EVER- L1v1NG GOD with delightand gladness of heart in your abundance of all things ;~——therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom the EVER- Llvmo will send tc you,——-in heat and raging thirst, and nakedness, and want; and an iron yoke shall be put upon your neck, until you perish! The EVER-LIVING will arouse against you a nation from afar, flying like an eagle from the end of the earth ;——a nation whose language you have not heard; a furious nation, who will not respect the presence of the old, nor pity the young ;—·and it shall devour the produce of your cattle, and the produce of your fields, until you are ruined ; until you shallpossess neither corn, nor wine, nor a calf from your cow, nor lamb from your sheep, until you are brought to ruin! And you shall be oppressed in all your villages, and your walls, towers and fortifica- tions in which you trusted shall be thrown down in the whole country, and you shall be harassed in every village of the land which your EVER- Llvmc; Gon gave to you! And you shall eat the fruit of your body,-—the llesh of your sons and your daughters, whom your EvaR—L1v1No Goo had
given you,-—in the siege and distress with which your enemies shall distress you! The friend who was very dear and delightful to you shall turn his eyes evil to his brother; and to the wives of his bosom, and to the re- mainder of his children who are left, to give one from amongst them as food for his children, so that the rest may eat from the corpse with him in the siege and distress with which your enemies distress you in all your cities ! The delicate lady who allowed not the sole of her foot to touch the earth from delicacy and refinement, shall look with evil eyes upon the husband of her bosom, and her sons, and her daughters, and the new—born 47 53 54 55 57 child that comes on her lap, and her children whom she has borne, that she may eat them in the absolute famine in secret, in the siege and distress with which your enemies shall distress you in your gates.-—If 58 you do not take care to practise the whole of the things of this Law, written in this book, and to reverence the OMA
