Deuteronomy 28:47
Good News Translation
The LORD blessed you in every way, but you would not serve him with glad and joyful hearts.

New Revised Standard Version
Because you did not serve the LORD your God joyfully and with gladness of heart for the abundance of everything,

Contemporary English Version
If the LORD makes you wealthy, but you don't joyfully worship and honor him,

New American Bible
Since you would not serve the LORD, your God, with heartfelt joy for abundance of every kind,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Because thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things:

Deuteronomy 12:7-12 And you shall eat there in the sight of the Lord your God: and you shall rejoice in all things, whereunto you shall put your hand, you and your houses wherein the Lord your God hath blessed you. . . .

Deuteronomy 16:11 And thou shalt feast before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger and the fatherless, and the widow, who abide with you: in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may dwell there:

Deuteronomy 32:13-15 He set him upon high land: that he might eat the fruits of the fields, that he might suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the hardest stone, . . .

Nehemiah 9:35 And they have not served thee in their kingdoms, and in thy manifold goodness, which thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land, which thou deliveredst before them, nor did they return from their most wicked devices.

1 Timothy 6:17-19 Charge the rich of this world not to be highminded nor to trust in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God (who giveth us abundantly all things to enjoy) . . .

Context
The Curses of Disobedience
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:48Thou shalt serve thy enemy, whom the Lord will send upon thee, in hunger, and thirst, and nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put an iron yoke upon thy neck, till he consume thee.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:7
And you shall eat there in the sight of the Lord your God: and you shall rejoice in all things, whereunto you shall put your hand, you and your houses wherein the Lord your God hath blessed you.

2 Chronicles 12:8
But yet they shall serve him, that they may know the difference between my service, and the service of a kingdom of the earth.

Nehemiah 9:35
And they have not served thee in their kingdoms, and in thy manifold goodness, which thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land, which thou deliveredst before them, nor did they return from their most wicked devices.

Psalm 100:2
Sing joyfully to God, all the earth: serve ye the Lord with gladness. Come in before his presence with exceeding great joy.

Deuteronomy 28:46
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