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Deuteronomy 28:16

14 And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

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:

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.

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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.

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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)

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Cross references

  • Malachi 3:9–12

    Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.

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  • Haggai 1:9–11

    Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.

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  • Jeremiah 44:22

    So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.

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  • Jeremiah 14:2–5

    Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

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  • Lamentations 2:11–22

    Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

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  • Haggai 2:16–17

    Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.

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  • Joel 1:4

    That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.

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  • Joel 1:8–18

    Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

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