Deuteronomy 28:16
You shall be cursed in the city, and you shall be cursed in the field.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
In Context
17Your basket and your kneading trough shall be cursed.
Cross References
Genesis 4:11Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
Genesis 8:21The Lord smelled the pleasant aroma. The Lord said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything 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 has nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your gates.
1 Kings 17:5So he went and did according to the word of the Lord; for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.
Job 24:18"They are foam on the surface 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 therein 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 →