Deuteronomy 28:3
Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed in the field.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.
In Context
2And all these blessings shall come upon thee and overtake thee: yet so if thou hear his precepts,
Cross References
Genesis 39:5And the Lord blessed the house of the Egyptian for Joseph's sake, and multiplied all his substance, both at home, and in the fields.
Psalms 112:1Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord: he shall delight exceedingly in his commandments.
Psalms 144:12and in thy mercy thou wilt destroy my enemies. And thou wilt cut off all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.
Amos 9:13Behold the days come, saith the Lord, when the ploughman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed: and the mountains shall drop sweetness, and every hill shall be tilled.
Zechariah 8:3Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I am returned to Sion, and I will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called The city of truth, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, The sanctified mountain.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 28:2-15
Promises. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: 2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God. 3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. 4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and… Read the whole commentary →