Deuteronomy 7:14 (ASV)

Passage

Thou shalt be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

Nearby Context

Deuteronomy 7:12 And it shall come to pass, because ye hearken to these ordinances, and keep and do them, that Jehovah thy God will keep with thee the covenant and the lovingkindness which he sware unto thy fathers:

Deuteronomy 7:13 and he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee; he will also bless the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy ground, thy grain and thy new wine and thine oil, the increase of thy cattle and the young of thy flock, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

Deuteronomy 7:14 Thou shalt be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

Deuteronomy 7:15 And Jehovah will take away from thee all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, will he put upon thee, but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.

Deuteronomy 7:16 And thou shalt consume all the peoples that Jehovah thy God shall deliver unto thee; thine eye shall not pity them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "thou", "shalt", "blessed", "above", "peoples", "shall", "male", and "female". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "thou" and "shalt", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 13's "and he will love thee and bless..." into verse 15's "And Jehovah will take away from thee...", so "thou" and "shalt" belong inside that flow. In Deuteronomy context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "thou" and "shalt" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.