Deuteronomy 28:32

³⁰ You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not enjoy its fruit.

³¹ Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will save you.

Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.

³³ A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.

³⁴ You will be driven mad by the sights you see.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.
KJV: Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.
WEB: Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power in your hand.
ASV: Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people; and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day: and there shall be nought in the power of thy hand.
DARBY: Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and languish for them all the day long; and there shall be no power in thy hand [to help it].
BLB: Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, and your eyes are looking and wasting away toward them all the day, and there is no power in your hand.

ÅB: Dine sønner og dine døtre skal overgis til et fremmed folk, og dine øyne skal se på det og vansmekte av lengsel etter dem hele dagen, og din hånd skal være avmektig.
OTB: Dine sønner og døtre vil bli gitt til en annen nasjon, og du vil slite ut dine øyne med å se etter dem dag etter dag, ute av stand til å løfte en hånd.
B1930: Dine sønner og dine døtre skal overgis til et fremmed folk, og dine øine skal se på det og vansmekte av lengsel efter dem hele dagen, og din hånd skal være avmektig.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Deuteronomy 28:41
You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.
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Joel 3:6
You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.
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Job 17:5
If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.
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2 Chronicles 29:9
For behold, this is why our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives are in captivity.
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Lamentations 5:17
Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—
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Jeremiah 15:7–9
I will scatter them with a winnowing fork at the gates of the land. I will bereave and destroy My people who have not turned from their ways.
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Jeremiah 16:2–4
“You must not marry or have sons or daughters in this place.”
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Deuteronomy 28:65
Among those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.
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