Deuteronomy 28:67
Good News Translation
Your hearts will pound with fear at everything you see. Every morning you will wish for evening; every evening you will wish for morning.

New Revised Standard Version
In the morning you shall say, “If only it were evening!” and at evening you shall say, “If only it were morning!”—because of the dread that your heart shall feel and the sights that your eyes shall see.

Contemporary English Version
Each morning you will wake up to such terrible sights that you will say, "I wish it were night!" But at night you will be terrified and say, "I wish it were day!"

New American Bible
In the morning you will say, “Would that it were evening!” and in the evening you will say, “Would that it were morning!” because of the dread that your heart must feel and the sight that your eyes must see.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In the morning thou shalt say: Who will grant me evening? and at evening: Who will grant me morning? for the fearfulness of thy heart, wherewith thou shalt be terrified, and for those things which thou shalt see with thy eyes.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

In the morning thou shalt say: Who will grant me evening? and at evening: Who will grant me morning? for the fearfulness of thy heart, wherewith thou shalt be terrified, and for those things which thou shalt see with thy eyes.

Deuteronomy 28:24 The Lord give thee dust for rain upon thy land, and let ashes come down from heaven upon thee, till thou be consumed.

Job 7:3,4 So I also have had empty months, and have numbered to myself wearisome nights. . . .

Revelation 9:6 And in those days, men shall seek death and shall not find it. And they shall desire to die: and death shall fly from them.

Context
The Curses of Disobedience
66And thy life shall be as it were hanging before thee. Thou shalt fear night and day, neither shalt thou trust thy life. 67In the morning thou shalt say: Who will grant me evening? and at evening: Who will grant me morning? for the fearfulness of thy heart, wherewith thou shalt be terrified, and for those things which thou shalt see with thy eyes.68The Lord shall bring thee again with ships into Egypt, by the way whereof he said to thee that thou shouldst see it no more. There shalt thou be set to sale to thy enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:66
And thy life shall be as it were hanging before thee. Thou shalt fear night and day, neither shalt thou trust thy life.

Deuteronomy 28:68
The Lord shall bring thee again with ships into Egypt, by the way whereof he said to thee that thou shouldst see it no more. There shalt thou be set to sale to thy enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.

Job 7:4
If I lie down to sleep, I shall say: When shall I rise? and again, I shall look for the evening, and shall be filled with sorrows even till darkness.

Isaiah 21:4
My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become a wonder to me.

Deuteronomy 28:66
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