Deuteronomy 30:7 (LSB)

Passage

And Yahweh your God will inflict all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.

Nearby Context

Deuteronomy 30:5 And Yahweh your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and He will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers.

Deuteronomy 30:6 “Moreover Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your seed, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.

Deuteronomy 30:7 And Yahweh your God will inflict all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.

Deuteronomy 30:8 And you shall return and listen to the voice of Yahweh, and you shall do all His commandments which I am commanding you today.

Deuteronomy 30:9 Then Yahweh your God will prosper you abundantly in all the work of your hand, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your cattle and in the produce of your ground, for Yahweh will return to rejoice over you for good, just as He rejoiced over your fathers,

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "yahweh", "inflict", "curses", "enemies", "hate", and "persecuted". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "yahweh" and "inflict", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 6's "Moreover Yahweh your God will circumcise your..." into verse 8's "And you shall return and listen to...", so "yahweh" and "inflict" 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 "yahweh" and "inflict" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.