Dear reader, is it possible to know if someone is under a curse or not? Here are 13 unmistakable signs of a curse.
1. Everything you do fails.
First,
16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.
Deuteronomy 28:16
2. Your enemies will defeat you.
Second,
25 The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven, and you will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms on earth.
Deuteronomy 28:25
3. Hunger and starvation.
Third,
17 Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.
Deuteronomy 28:17
4. Cursed children.
Furthermore,
18 The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
Deuteronomy 28:18
5. Confusion.
Additionally,
20 The Lord will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him.[a]
Deuteronomy 28:20
6. Diseases.
Also,
21 The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess. 22 The Lord will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish.
Deuteronomy 28:21-22
7. Poor harvests.
Seventh,
23 The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron. 24 The Lord will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.
Deuteronomy 28:23-24
8. Marital failure and rape.
Furthermore,
30 You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit.
Deuteronomy 28:30
9. Theft and being robbed.
Also,
31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it. Your donkey will be forcibly taken from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them.
Deuteronomy 28:31
10. Fear.
Additionally,
66 You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life.
Deuteronomy 28:66
11. Confusion.
The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind. 29 At midday you will grope about like a blind person in the dark.
Deuteronomy 28:28-29
12. Business failure.
38 You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it. 39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them. 40 You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off.
Deuteronomy 28:38-40
13. Death
26 Your carcasses will be food for all the birds and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away.
27 The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured.
Deuteronomy 28:26-27
