Deutéronome 28:34

34 Le spectacle que tu auras sous les yeux te jettera dans le délire.

Deutéronome 28:34 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 28:34

So that thou shalt be mad, for the sight of thine eyes that
thou shall see.
] On account of the shocking things seen by them, their dreadful calamities, oppressions, and persecutions, such as before related; not only violent diseases on their bodies, which were grievous to behold, as well as their pains were intolerable, and made them mad; but to be deprived of a betrothed wife, a newly built house, and a newly planted vineyard; to have an ox slain, and an ass taken away by their enemies, and their sheep given to them before their eyes; to have their sons and daughters taken from them, and brought up in another religion, and to be stripped of their substance; these have made them stark mad, insomuch that they have sometimes destroyed themselves and their families. In Germany, in their rage and madness, they burnt a city and themselves in it; and, in the same country, being summoned by an edict to change their religion, or to be burnt, they agreed to meet together in a certain house, and destroy one another; and first parents killed their children, and husbands their wives, and then killed themselves; leaving only one person to be their doorkeeper, who finished the tragedy by destroying himself, as their own historian relates ^F13. Other stories of the like kind are reported of them, and some such facts as done in our own nation ^F14.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 Ib. (Shebet Judah, sive Hist. Jud.) sect. 34, 36. p. 214, 215, 216, 217.
F14 See Bishop Patrick in loc. and Dr. Newton (Bishop of Bristol) on Prophecies, vol. 1. Dissert. 7. sect. 14. p. 195, 196.

Deutéronome 28:34 In-Context

32 Tes fils et tes filles seront livrés à un autre peuple, tes yeux le verront et languiront tout le jour après eux, et ta main sera sans force.

33 Un peuple que tu n'auras point connu mangera le fruit de ton sol et tout le produit de ton travail, et tu seras tous les jours opprimé et écrasé.

34 Le spectacle que tu auras sous les yeux te jettera dans le délire.

35 L'Eternel te frappera aux genoux et aux cuisses d'un ulcère malin dont tu ne pourras guérir, il te frappera depuis la plante du pied jusqu'au sommet de la tête.

36 L'Eternel te fera marcher, toi et ton roi que tu auras établi sur toi, vers une nation que tu n'auras point connue, ni toi ni tes pères. Et là, tu serviras d'autres dieux, du bois et de la pierre.