Deuteronomy 28:46
Good News Translation
They will be the evidence of God's judgment on you and your descendants forever.

New Revised Standard Version
They shall be among you and your descendants as a sign and a portent forever.

Contemporary English Version
Then everyone will look at you and your descendants and realize that the LORD has placed you under a curse.

New American Bible
They will be a sign and a wonder for you and your descendants for all time.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shall be as signs and wonders on thee, and on thy seed for ever.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they shall be as signs and wonders on thee, and on thy seed for ever.

a sign

Deuteronomy 28:37,59 And thou shalt be lost, as a proverb and a byword to all people, among whom the Lord shall bring thee in. . . .

Deuteronomy 29:20,28 And the Lord should not forgive him: but his wrath and jealousy against that man should be exceedingly enkindled at that time, and all the curses that are written in this volume should light upon him: and the Lord should blot out his name from under heaven, . . .

Isaiah 8:18 Behold I and my children, whom the Lord hath given me for a sign, and for a wonder in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Sion.

Jeremiah 19:8 And I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and shall hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

Jeremiah 25:18 To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Juda, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof: to make them a desolation, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a curse, as it is at this day.

Ezekiel 14:8 And I will set my face against that man, and will make him an example, and a proverb, and will cut him off from the midst of my people: and you shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 23:32,33 Thus saith the Lord God: Thou shalt drink thy sister's cup, deep and wide: thou shalt be had in derision and scorn, which containeth very much. . . .

Ezekiel 36:20 And when they entered among the nations whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when it was said of them: This is the people of the Lord, and they are come forth out of his land.

1 Corinthians 10:11 Now all these things happened to them in figure: and they are written for our correction, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

Context
The Curses of Disobedience
45And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue and overtake thee, till thou perish: because thou heardst not the voice of the Lord thy God, and didst not keep his commandments and ceremonies which he commanded thee. 46And they shall be as signs and wonders on thee, and on thy seed for ever.47Because thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things:…
Cross References
Numbers 26:10
And the earth opening her mouth swallowed up Core, many others dying, when the fire burned two hundred and fifty men. And there was a great miracle wrought,

Isaiah 8:18
Behold I and my children, whom the Lord hath given me for a sign, and for a wonder in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Sion.

Ezekiel 5:15
And thou shalt be a reproach, and a scoff, an example, and an astonishment amongst the nations that are round about thee, when I shall have executed judgments in thee in anger, and in indignation, and in wrathful rebukes.

Ezekiel 14:8
And I will set my face against that man, and will make him an example, and a proverb, and will cut him off from the midst of my people: and you shall know that I am the Lord.

Deuteronomy 28:45
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