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7 The LORD (hal cauſe thine enemies that riſe up againſt thee, to be ſmitten before thy face : they (bal come out againſt thee one way, and flee before rhee feven ways e. | |
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Gen.2r. art called by the Name of the LORD b,* and they (bal 2, 23. & be afraid of thee. 6, 28. h (#: e: ) That you are in deed and truth his People and Children: See Deut: 14: 1: and 26: 18. For to becalled oft-times ſignifies 70 be, as Iſa: 47: 1, 5: and 56: 7: Mat: 5: 9, 19: and 21: 13. : chap.zo, 11 And*the LORD (bal make thee plenteous [lin ,&. goods, in thefRir of thy + body, and in the fruit of thy Or, fir cattel,and in the fruit of thy ground 3,in the land which Heb. 5211, the LORD ſware unto thy fathers, to give thee, belly . | . | : The ſame things which were ſaid beforeare repeated, to ſhew that God would repeat and multiply his bleſſings upon them- ' 12 The LORD ſhal open unto thee his good treaſure | k,the heaven to give the rain-unto thy land in his ſeaſon, 15.6. nd to bleſs all the work of thine hand : * and thou ' ſbalt lendunto many narions,and thou (halt not borrow. k To wit, the Heaven or the Air, as it here follows, which 15 God's Sr things for Man's uſe. See fob: 38: 22: Pſat: 33: 7. \ 13 And the LORD fhal make thee the head/, and not the tail,and thou ſhalt be above only, and thou ſbalr not be beneath : if that thou hearken unto the command- ments of the LORD thy God, which I:command thee - this day, to obſerve and to do them? >; F | I The chief of all People in Power, or at Jeaſt, in Dignity; -and Priviledges ; ſo that even they that are not under thine Authority ſhall reverence thy. Greatnefs and Excellep:y: So it was in. David's and Solemon's time,and ſo it ſhould have been much oftner and much more, if they had performed the Conditions here required. For the Phraſe ſee 1/a. 9. r3; 14.' and 19. 15. © © 4 14 And thou ſhalt not go aſidefrom any of the words which I command thee this day;to the 'righthand or to the. left, to go after other gods to ſerve them. * Lev.26. T5 Butir ſhal cometo paſs, *if thou wilt not hear- 24-Lam.2- ken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to obſerve 27.Dan.9. to do all his commandments, and his: ſtatutes, which I M1 >. ». command thee this day; that all theſe curſes ſhal come upon thee, and overtake thee mw. © | » $o-asthou ſhalr not be able to eſcape them, as thou ſhalt vain- ly hope and endeavout to do.
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17 Curſed ſhall bethy basket and thy ſtore.
18 Curſed ſhall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increaſe of thy kine, and the flocks of thy ſheep. . | |
19 Curſed ſhalt thou be when thou comeſt in, and curſed ſhalt thou be when thou gaeſt out.