H9005–/ל–l

The Lord will make you the head and not the tail; and you will ever have the highest place, if you give ear to the orders of the Lord your God which I give you today, to keep and to do them;

לְרֹאשׁ֙ (לְ) le. “into”לְזָנָ֔ב (לְ) le. “into”לְמַ֔עְלָה (לְ) le. “<to>”לְמָ֑טָּה (לְ) le. “<to>”לִשְׁמֹ֥ר (לִ) li “to”וְלַעֲשֽׂוֹת׃ (לַ) la. “to”

Not turning away from any of the orders which I give you today, to the right hand or to the left, or going after any other gods to give them worship.

לָלֶ֗כֶת (לָ) la. “to”לְעָבְדָֽם׃ (לְ) le. “to”

But if you do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to do all his orders and his laws which I give you today, then all these curses will come on you and overtake you:

לִשְׁמֹ֤ר (לִ) li “to”לַעֲשׂוֹת֙ (לַ) la. “to”

The Lord will send disease after disease on you, till you have been cut off by death from the land to which you are going.

לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ׃ (לְ) le. “to”

The Lord will let you be overcome by your haters: you will go out against them one way, and you will go in flight before them seven ways: you will be the cause of fear among all the kingdoms of the earth.

לִפְנֵ֣י (לִ) li “<to>”לְפָנָ֑יו (לְ) le. “<to>”לְזַעֲוָ֔ה (לְ) le. “<into>”לְכֹ֖ל (לְ) le. “to”

Your bodies will be meat for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth; there will be no one to send them away.

לְמַאֲכָ֔ל (לְ) le. “<into>”לְכָל־ (לְ) le. “for”וּלְבֶהֱמַ֣ת (לְ) le. “for”

The Lord will send on you the disease of Egypt, and other sorts of skin diseases which nothing will make well.

לְהֵרָפֵֽא׃ (לְ) le. “to”

Your ox will be put to death before your eyes, but its flesh will not be your food: your ass will be violently taken away before your face, and will not be given back to you: your sheep will be given to your haters, and there will be no saviour for you.

לְעֵינֶ֗יךָ (לְ) le. “to”מִלְּפָנֶ֔יךָ (לְּ) le. “to”לָ֑ךְ (לָ֑) La “to <the>”לְאֹיְבֶ֔יךָ (לְ) le. “to”לְךָ֖ (לְ) le. “[will belong] to <the>”

Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, and your eyes will be wasted away with looking and weeping for them all the day: and you will have no power to do anything.

לְעַ֤ם (לְ) le. “to”לְאֵ֖ל (לְ) le. “[it is] to”

The Lord will send a skin disease, attacking your knees and your legs, bursting out from your feet to the top of your head, so that nothing will make you well.

לְהֵרָפֵ֑א (לְ) le. “to”

And you will become a wonder and a name of shame among all the nations where the Lord will take you.

לְשַׁמָּ֔ה (לְ) le. “<into>”לְמָשָׁ֖ל (לְ) le. “<into>”וְלִשְׁנִינָ֑ה (לִ) li “<into>”

Your land will be full of olive-trees, but there will be no oil for the comfort of your body; for your olive-tree will give no fruit.

לְךָ֖ (לְ) le. “to <the>”

You will have sons and daughters, but they will not be yours; for they will go away prisoners into a strange land.

לָ֔ךְ (לָ֔) La “to <the>”

He will let you have his wealth at interest, and will have no need of yours: he will be the head and you the tail.

לְרֹ֔אשׁ (לְ) le. “<into>”לְזָנָֽב׃ (לְ) le. “into”

And all these curses will come after you and overtake you, till your destruction is complete; because you did not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, or keep his laws and his orders which he gave you:

לִשְׁמֹ֛ר (לִ) li “to”

These things will come on you and on your seed, to be a sign and a wonder for ever;

לְא֖וֹת (לְ) le. “<into>”וּלְמוֹפֵ֑ת (לְ) le. “<into>”

A hard-faced nation, who will have no respect for the old or mercy for the young:

לְזָקֵ֔ן (לְ) le. “for”

He will take the fruit of your cattle and of your land till death puts an end to you: he will let you have nothing of your grain or wine or oil or any of the increase of your cattle or the young of your flock, till he has made your destruction complete.

לְךָ֗ (לְ) le. “to <the>”

Your towns will be shut in by his armies, till your high walls, in which you put your faith, have come down: his armies will be round your towns, through all your land which the Lord your God has given you.

לְךָ֜ (לְ) le. “to <the>”לְךָ֙ (לְ) le. “to <the>”לָֽךְ׃ (לָֽ) La “to <the>”

And your food will be the fruit of your body, the flesh of the sons and daughters which the Lord your God has given you; because of your bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters.

לְךָ֖ (לְ) le. “to <the>”לְךָ֖ (לְ) le. “to <the>”

And will not give to any of them the flesh of his children which will be his food because he has no other; in the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.

לְאַחַ֣ד (לְ) le. “to”ל֖וֹ (ל֖) l “to <the>”לְךָ֛ (לְ) le. “to <the>”

And to her baby newly come to birth, and to the children of her body; for having no other food, she will make a meal of them secretly, because of her bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.

לְךָ֛ (לְ) le. “to <the>”

If you will not take care to do all the words of this law, recorded in this book, honouring that name of glory and of fear, THE LORD YOUR GOD;

לַעֲשׂ֗וֹת (לַ) la. “to”לְ֠יִרְאָה (לְ֠) Le. “to”

And you will become a very small band, though your numbers were like the stars of heaven; because you did not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God.

לָרֹ֑ב (לָ) la. “for”

And as the Lord took delight in doing you good and increasing you, so the Lord will take pleasure in cutting you off and causing your destruction, and you will be uprooted from the land which you are about to take as your heritage.

לְהֵיטִ֣יב (לְ) le. “to”וּלְהַרְבּ֣וֹת (לְ) le. “to”לְהַאֲבִ֥יד (לְ) le. “to”וּלְהַשְׁמִ֣יד (לְ) le. “to”לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ׃ (לְ) le. “to”