Deuteronomy 28:18
You will be cursed by not having children, and by not having good harvests, and by your cattle not having calves, and your sheep not having lambs.
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In Context
17You will be cursed by not having bread.
19You will be cursed wherever you go and in everything you do.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:19I will break your self-reliant strength you're so proud of, and make your sky hard as iron and your land hard as bronze.
Deuteronomy 5:9You must not bow down before them or worship them; for I am the Lord your God and I am passionately exclusive. I lay the consequences of the sin of those who hate me on their sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons;
Deuteronomy 28:16You will be cursed when you're in the town; you will be cursed when you're in the countryside.
Psalms 109:9May his children be left fatherless, and his wife become a widow.
Lamentations 2:20Lord, please think about it! Who have you ever treated this way? Should women have to eat their children, the little ones they love? Should priests and prophets be killed in the Lord's Temple?
Hosea 9:12Even if they bring up children, I will make sure they do not survive. What a disaster for you when I turn away from you!
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 →