Deuteronomy 28:18
'Cursed [is] the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
17'Cursed [is] thy basket and thy kneading-trough.
19'Cursed [art] thou in thy coming in, and cursed [art] thou in thy going out.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:19and I have broken the pride of your strength, and have made your heavens as iron, and your earth as brass;
Deuteronomy 5:9thou dost not bow thyself to them nor serve them, for I Jehovah thy God [am] a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on children, and on a third [generation], and on a fourth, to those hating Me;
Deuteronomy 28:16'Cursed [art] thou in the city, and cursed [art] thou in the field.
Psalms 109:9His sons are fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Lamentations 2:20See, O Jehovah, and look attentively, To whom Thou hast acted thus, Do women eat their fruit, infants of a handbreadth? Slain in the sanctuary of the Lord are priest and prophet?
Hosea 9:12For though they nourish their sons, I have made them childless — without man, Surely also, woe to them, when I turn aside from them.
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 →