1-2. Today I am giving you the laws and teachings of the Lord your God. Always obey them, and the Lord will make Israel the most famous and important nation on earth, and he will bless you in many ways.
3. The Lord will make your businesses and your farms successful.
4. You will have many children. You will harvest large crops, and your herds of cattle and flocks of sheep and goats will produce many young.
5. You will have plenty of bread to eat.
6. The Lord will make you successful in your daily work.
7. The Lord will help you defeat your enemies and make them scatter in all directions.
8. The Lord your God is giving you the land, and he will make sure you are successful in everything you do. Your harvests will be so large that your storehouses will be full.
9. If you follow and obey the Lord, he will make you his own special people, just as he promised.
21-23. The Lord will send terrible diseases to attack you, and you will never be well again. You will suffer with burning fever and swelling and pain until you die somewhere in the land that you captured.The Lord will make the sky overhead seem like a bronze roof that keeps out the rain, and the ground under your feet will become as hard as iron. Your crops will be scorched by the hot east wind or ruined by mildew.
54-55. Because of hunger, a man who had been gentle and kind will eat his own children and refuse to share the meal with his brother or wife or with his other children.
56-57. A woman may have grown up in such luxury that she never had to put a foot on the ground. But times will be so bad that she will secretly eat both her newborn baby and the afterbirth, without sharing any with her husband or her other children.