Deuteronomy 28:16
Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 art thou from the ground, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand.
Genesis 8:21And the LORD smelled the sweet savour; and the LORD said in His heart: 'I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
Deuteronomy 28:55so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he hath nothing left him; in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall straiten thee in all thy gates.
1 Kings 17:5So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD; for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.
Job 24:18He is swift upon the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; he turneth not by the way of the vineyards.
Isaiah 24:6Therefore hath a curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are found guilty; therefore the inhabitants of the earth waste away, and men are left few.
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 →