Deuteronomy 28:16
Cursed shall thou be in the city, and cursed shall thou be in the field.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
In Context
17Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.
Cross References
Genesis 4:11And now cursed are thou from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand.
Genesis 8:21And LORD smelled the sweet savor. And LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, for that the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I again any more smite everything
Deuteronomy 28:55so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his sons whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left to him, in the siege and in the distress with which thine enemy shall distress thee in all thy gates.
1 Kings 17:5So he went and did according to the word of LORD, for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith that is before the Jordan.
Job 24:18Swiftly they [pass away] upon the face of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They do not turn into the way of the vineyards.
Isaiah 24:6Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell in it are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 28:16-45
Threatenings. ( b. c. 1451.) 15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: 16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. 17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. 19… Read the whole commentary →