Deuteronomy 28:16
14 Do not turn aside to the right or to the left from any of the words I command you today, and do not go after other gods to serve them.
15 If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.
17 Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed.
18 The fruit of your womb will be cursed, as well as the produce of your land, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.
- KJV
- Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
- WEB
- You will be cursed in the city, and you will be cursed in the field.
- ASV
- Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
- DARBY
- Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
- BLB
- Cursed [are] you in the city, and cursed [are] you in the field.
- ÅB
- Forbannet være du i byen, og forbannet være du på marken!
- OTB
- Du vil bli forbannet i byen og forbannet på landet.
- B1930
- Forbannet være du i byen, og forbannet være du på marken!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Malachi 3:9–12
You are cursed with a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing Me.
Read in contextHaggai 1:9–11
You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.
Read in contextJeremiah 44:22
So the LORD could no longer endure the evil deeds and detestable acts you committed, and your land became a desolation, a horror, and an object of cursing, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
Read in contextJeremiah 14:2–5
“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.
Read in contextLamentations 2:11–22
My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
Read in contextHaggai 2:16–17
from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths, there were but twenty.
Read in contextJoel 1:4
What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.
Read in contextJoel 1:8–18
Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.
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