After the blessings we get the curses, and there are a lot more of them than there were blessings! Sin is complicated, goodness is simple. Goodness makes things clearer and straightforward, evil always blinds and obscures, and produces a multitude of problems.
The first list (v 16-19) is the opposite of the blessings. When we follow the way of the Lord things will have a habit of working out somehow. When we disobey the Lord everything will end in frustration.
Diseases, confusion, plague, scorching heat, and all sorts of things will come upon us. The Lord was giving them the land, and driving out the evil nations so He could do so. If Israel failed to obey the Lord they would suffer the same fate as the nations they had displaced.
Instead of having victory over our enemies, we will endure defeat. Everything will end in failure.
As the chapter goes on the judgement becomes worse and worse. In simple terms the message is clear, it is far better to obey the Lord than not.
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