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Deuteronomy 28:47
Because you didn’t serve the LORD your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;
Deuteronomy 28:47 · World English Bible
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Deuteronomy 28:47 in other translations
Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance,
Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;
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In context
44 He will lend to you, and you won’t lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.
45 All these curses will come on you, and will pursue you and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you didn’t listen to the LORD your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you.
46 They will be for a sign and for a wonder to you and to your offspring forever.
47 Because you didn’t serve the LORD your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;
48 therefore you will serve your enemies whom the LORD sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.
49 The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies: a nation whose language you will not understand,
50 a nation of fierce facial expressions, that doesn’t respect the elderly, nor show favor to the young.
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