Deuteronomy 28:16
He will curse you when you are in the cities and he will curse you when you are working in the fields.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 4:11You have killed your younger brother, and the ground has soaked up his blood. So now I will expel you from this land and curse your efforts to produce crops.
Genesis 8:21When Yahweh smelled the pleasant odor, he was pleased with the sacrifice. Then he said to himself, “I will never again devastate everything on the earth because of the sinful things people do. Even though everything that people think is evil from the time they are young, I will not destroy all the living creatures again, as I did this time.
1 Kings 17:5So Elijah did what Yahweh commanded him to do. He went and camped alongside Kerith Brook.
Job 24:18“ But it is wicked people who are swept/carried away by floods, and God curses the land that they own, and no one goes to work in their vineyards.
Isaiah 24:6Therefore, Yahweh will curse the earth; the people who live on it must be punished because of the sins that they have committed. They will be destroyed by fire, and only a few people will remain alive.
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 →