Bible Verses About Reprobacy

ADONAI will bring you and your king whom you have put over yourselves to a nation you have not known, neither you nor your ancestors; and there you will serve other gods made of wood and stone.

You will be so devastated as to become a proverb and a laughingstock among all the peoples to which ADONAI will drive you.

"You will carry much seed out to the field but gather little in, because locusts will devour it.

You will plant vineyards and dress them but neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.

You will have olive trees throughout your territory but not anoint yourself with the oil, because your olives will fall off unripe.

You will father sons and daughters, but they won't belong to you, because they will go into captivity.

The bugs will inherit all your trees and the produce of your land.

"The foreigner living with you will rise higher and higher while you sink lower and lower.

He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him; he will be the head and you the tail.

"All these curses will come on you, pursuing you and overtaking you until you are destroyed, because you didn't pay attention to what ADONAI your God said, observing his mitzvot and regulations that he gave you.

These curses will be on you and your descendants as a sign and a wonder forever.

Because you didn't serve ADONAI your God with joy and gladness in your heart when you had such an abundance of everything;

ADONAI will send your enemy against you; and you will serve him when you are hungry, thirsty, poorly clothed and lacking everything; he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he destroys you.

Yes, ADONAI will bring against you a nation from far away that will swoop down on you from the end of the earth like a vulture, a nation whose language you don't understand,

a nation grim in appearance, whose people neither respect the old nor pity the young.

They will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil, until you have been destroyed. They will leave you without grain, wine, olive oil, or your young cattle and sheep - until they have caused you to perish.

They will besiege all your towns until your high, fortified walls, in which you trusted, collapse everywhere in your land, which ADONAI your God gave you.

Then, because of the severity of the siege and distress that your enemies are inflicting on you, you will eat the offspring of your own body, the flesh of your own sons and daughters, whom ADONAI your God has given you.

Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will be without pity for his brother, his beloved wife or his surviving children,

to the degree that he will refuse to share with any of them the flesh of his children whom he is eating; because if he did, he would have nothing left for himself -in the severity of the siege and distress your enemies are inflicting on you in all your towns.

The most delicate and sensitive woman among you, so sensitive and delicate that she wouldn't think of touching the sole of her foot to the ground, will so begrudge her own beloved husband, son and daughter

that she will secretly eat the afterbirth that comes out of her and even her own children as she bears them -so desperately hungry will she be in the severity of the siege and distress your enemies are inflicting on you in your towns.

"If you will not observe and obey all the words of this Torah that are written in this book, so that you will fear this glorious and awesome name, ADONAI your God;

then ADONAI will strike down you and your descendants with extraordinary plagues and severe sicknesses that go on and on.

He will bring back upon you all the diseases the Egyptians had, which you were in dread of; and they will cling to you.