“I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.”
Then I will do this to you: I will bring on you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight and sap your strength. You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it. The first level of curses: terror, disease, agricultural futility. The sudden terror, the wasting diseases, and the fever that destroys sight and saps strength communicate the comprehensive physical suffering of the covenant's curse. The agricultural futility — planting in vain because enemies eat the harvest — is the reversal of the agricultural blessing: instead of eating last year's harvest to make room for the new (verse 10), the community plants and harvests for their enemies to consume.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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