“Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power in your hand.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Deuteronomy 28 contains 68 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.