Now, if you obey the LORD your God, to observe faithfully all His commandments which I enjoin upon you this day, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. All these blessings shall come upon you and take effect, if you will but heed the word of the LORD your God:
Blessed shall you be in the city and blessed shall you be in the country.
Blessed shall be the issue of your womb, the produce of your soil, and the offspring of your cattle, the calving of your herd and the lambing of your flock.
Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
Blessed shall you be in your comings and blessed shall you be in your goings.
The LORD will put to rout before you the enemies who attack you; they will march out against you by a single road, but flee from you by many roads. The LORD will ordain blessings for you upon your barns and upon all your undertakings: He will bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. The LORD will establish you as His holy people, as He swore to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways. And all the peoples of the earth shall see that the LORD’s name is proclaimed over you, and they shall stand in fear of you. The LORD will give you abounding prosperity in the issue of your womb, the offspring of your cattle, and the produce of your soil in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to assign to you. The LORD will open for you His bounteous store, the heavens, to provide rain for your land in season and to bless all your undertakings. You will be creditor to many nations, but debtor to none.
The LORD will make you the head, not the tail; you will always be at the top and never at the bottom – if only you obey and faithfully observe the commandments of the LORD your God that I enjoin upon you this day, and do not deviate to the right or to the left from any of the commandments that I enjoin upon you this day and turn to the worship of other gods.
Deuteronomy 28:1-14 (Tanakh)
