KJV King James Version
Cursed [shalt] thou [be] in the city, and cursed [shalt] thou [be] in the field.
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Deuteronomy 28:16
Cursed [shalt] thou [be] in the city, and cursed [shalt] thou [be] in the field.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.
WEB World English Bible
You shall be cursed in the city, and you shall be cursed in the field.
ASV American Standard Version
Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Cursed art thou in the city, and cursed art thou in the field.
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 28
13 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do [them]:
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:
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 Cursed [shalt] thou [be] when thou comest in, and cursed [shalt] thou [be] when thou goest out.
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Malachi 3:9-12Ye [are] cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, [even] this whole nation.Proverbs 3:33The curse of the LORD [is] in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.Lamentations 2:11-22Mine 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.Joel 1:8-18Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.Jeremiah 14:2-5Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.Jeremiah 14:18If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.Joel 1:4That 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.Haggai 2:16-17Since 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.Isaiah 24:6-12Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.Joel 2:3A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land [is] as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.Haggai 1:9-11Ye 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.Jeremiah 44:22So 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.Malachi 2:2If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay [it] to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay [it] to heart.Jeremiah 26:6Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.Genesis 3:17-18And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed [is] the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life;Lamentations 5:10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.Deuteronomy 28:3-14Blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the city, and blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the field.Genesis 5:29And he called his name Noah, saying, This [same] shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.
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