Deuteronomy 28:28
Good News Translation
The LORD will make you lose your mind; he will strike you with blindness and confusion.

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness, and confusion of mind;

Contemporary English Version
You will become insane and go blind. The LORD will make you so confused,

New American Bible
And the LORD will strike you with madness, blindness and panic,

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord strike thee with madness and blindness and fury of mind.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The Lord strike thee with madness and blindness and fury of mind.

1 Samuel 16:14 But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him.

Psalm 60:3 Thou hast shewn thy people hard things; thou hast made us drink the wine of sorrow.

Isaiah 6:9,10 And he said: Go, and thou shalt say to this people: Hearing, hear, and understand not: and see the vision, and know it not. . . .

Isaiah 19:11-17 The princes of Tanis are become fools, the wise counsellors of Pharao have given foolish counsel: how will you say to Pharao: I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? . . .

Isaiah 43:19 Behold I do new things, and now they shall spring forth, verily you shall know them: I will make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

Jeremiah 4:9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord: That the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes: and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall be amazed.

Ezekiel 4:17 So that when bread and water fail, every man may fall against his brother, and they may pine away in their iniquities.

Luke 21:25,26 And there shall be signs in the sun and in the moon and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, by reason of the confusion of the roaring of the sea, and of the waves: . . .

Acts 13:41 Behold, ye despisers, and wonder and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you will not believe, if any man shall tell it you.

2 Thessalonians 2:9-11 Whose coming is according to the working of Satan, in all power and signs and lying wonders: . . .

Context
The Curses of Disobedience
27The Lord strike thee with the ulcer of Egypt, and the part of thy body, by which the dung is cast out, with the scab and with the itch: so that thou canst not be healed. 28The Lord strike thee with madness and blindness and fury of mind.29And mayst thou grope at midday as the blind is wont to grope in the dark, and not make straight thy ways. And mayst thou at all times suffer wrong, and be oppressed with violence, and mayst thou have no one to deliver thee.…
Cross References
Genesis 19:11
And them, that were without, they struck with blindness from the least to the greatest, so that they could not find the door.

Deuteronomy 28:27
The Lord strike thee with the ulcer of Egypt, and the part of thy body, by which the dung is cast out, with the scab and with the itch: so that thou canst not be healed.

Deuteronomy 28:29
And mayst thou grope at midday as the blind is wont to grope in the dark, and not make straight thy ways. And mayst thou at all times suffer wrong, and be oppressed with violence, and mayst thou have no one to deliver thee.

Lamentations 4:14
Nun. They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they were defiled with blood: and when they could not help walking in it, they held up their skirts.

Deuteronomy 28:27
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