Misinterpretations often detach this verse from its Mosaic covenant context, applying it literally or exclusively to modern events like the transatlantic slave trade by equating 'Egypt' with America and ships with slave vessels, claiming fulfillment only in African descendants as 'true Israel,' while ignoring its conditional nature as a curse avertable by obedience, the hyperbolic treaty language common in ancient Near East, and historical partial fulfillments in Assyrian, Babylonian, and Roman dispersions rather than a singular future prophecy.
Deuteronomy 28:68
King James Version (1769)
68 And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
Deuteronomy 28:68 concludes the list of curses for Israel's covenant disobedience, prophetically warning that God would reverse their exodus deliverance by sending them back into bondage reminiscent of Egypt, but via ships on an unprecedented sea route, where enemies would offer them for sale as slaves, yet find them so worthless that no buyers emerge, underscoring the ultimate humiliation, rejection, and divine abandonment resulting from forsaking the Lord's commands and statutes.