Deuteronomy 28 (WK) - Bible Truth Library

Verse 15

Verse 17

Articles on

Deuteronomy 28

Deut. 28:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

Cursedr shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.

Mal. 2:2• ²If ye do not hear, and if ye do not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith Jehovah of hosts, I will even send the curse among you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have already cursed them, because ye do not lay it to heart. (Mal. 2:2)

Cross References

in the city.

Deut. 28:3‑14• ³Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.
⁴Blessed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the offspring of thy kine, and the increase of thy sheep.
⁵Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.
⁶Blessed shalt thou be in thy coming in, and blessed shalt thou be in thy going out.
⁷Jehovah will give up, smitten before thee, thine enemies that rise up against thee; they shall come out against thee one way, and by seven ways shall they flee before thee.
⁸Jehovah will command blessing on thee in thy granaries, and in all the business of thy hand; and he will bless thee in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
⁹Jehovah will establish thee unto himself a holy people as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou keep the commandments of Jehovah thy God, and walk in his ways.
¹⁰And all peoples of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of Jehovah, and they shall be afraid of thee.
¹¹And Jehovah will give thee abundance of good, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land that Jehovah swore unto thy fathers to give thee.
¹²Jehovah will open to thee his good treasure, the heavens, to give rain unto thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand; and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow.
¹³And Jehovah will make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if thou hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah thy God, which I command thee this day, to keep and to do them,
¹⁴and if thou turn not aside from any of the words that I command thee this day, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them. (Deut. 28:3‑14)

;

Prov. 3:33• ³³The curse of Jehovah [is] in the house of the wicked;{HR}But he blesseth the habitation of the righteous. (Prov. 3:33)

;

Isa. 24:6‑12• ⁶Therefore doth the curse devour the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
⁷The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry hearted do sigh.
⁸The mirth of tambours ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
⁹They do not drink wine with a song; strong drink is bitter to them that drink it.
¹⁰The city of solitude is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man entereth in.
¹¹[There is] a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
¹²In the city remaineth desolation, and the gate is smitten,—a ruin. (Isa. 24:6‑12)

;

Isa. 43:28• ²⁸Therefore I profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and made Jacob a curse, and Israel a reviling. (Isa. 43:28)

;

Jer. 9:11• ¹¹And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant. (Jer. 9:11)

;

Jer. 26:6• ⁶then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth. (Jer. 26:6)

;

Jer. 44:22• ²²So that Jehovah 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. (Jer. 44:22)

;

Lam. 1:1• ¹How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people!{HR}She that was great among the nations is become as a widow;{HR}The princess among the provinces is become tributary! (Lam. 1:1)

;

Lam. 2:11‑22• ¹¹Mine eyes do fill with tears, my bowels are troubled,{HR}My liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people;{HR}Because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
¹²They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine?{HR}When they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city,{HR}When their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.
¹³What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee,{HR}O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee,{HR}O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?
¹⁴Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee:{HR}And they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity;{HR}But have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.
¹⁵All that pass by clap their hands at thee;{HR}They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying,{HR}Is this the city that men call the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?
¹⁶All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee:{HR}They hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up:{HR}Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
¹⁷Jehovah hath done that which he had devised;{HR}He hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old:{HR}He hath thrown down and hath not pitied:{HR}And he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee,{HR}He hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.
¹⁸Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion,{HR}Let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest;{HR}Let not the apple of thine eye cease.
¹⁹Arise, cry out in the night:{HR}In the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord:{HR}Lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
²⁰Behold, O Jehovah, and consider to whom thou hast done this.{HR}Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long?{HR}Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
²¹The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets:{HR}My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword;{HR}Thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.
²²Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about,{HR}So that in the day of Jehovah's anger none escaped nor remained:{HR}Those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed. (Lam. 2:11‑22)

;

Lam. 4:1‑13• ¹How the gold is become dim! the most fine gold is changed!{HR}The sacred stones are thrown down at the top of every street!
²The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold,{HR}How they are esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter.
³Even the dragons draw out the breast, they suckle their young:{HR}The daughter of my people [is] cruel like the ostriches in the wilderness.
⁴The tongue of the suckling cleaveth to its palate for thirst;{HR}Infants ask bread—none breaketh [it] for them.
⁵They that fed daintily perish in the streets;{HR}They who were brought up on scarlet embrace dunghills.
⁶For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom,{HR}That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.
⁷Her Nazarites were brighter than snow, they were whiter than milk;{HR}They were more ruddy in body than rubies, their cutting (shape) of sapphire.
⁸Their aspect is darker than dusk, they are not known in the streets;{HR}Their skin cleaveth to their bones, it is dried up like a stick.
⁹Happier the slain with the sword than the slain with hunger;{HR}Because these pine away pierced through for the fruits of the field.
¹⁰The hands of pitiful women boiled their children;{HR}They became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
¹¹Jehovah hath spent his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger,{HR}And hath kindled a fire in Zion which hath devoured her foundations.
¹²The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world,{HR}Would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
¹³Because of the sins of her prophets,{HR}The iniquities of her priests that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her, (Lam. 4:1‑13)

;

Mal. 4:6• ⁶And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. (Mal. 4:6)

in the field.

Deut. 28:55• ⁵⁵so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children that he eateth, because he hath nothing left him in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates. (Deut. 28:55)

;

Gen. 3:17‑18• ¹⁷And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto thy wife's voice, and hast eaten of the tree [of] which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, cursed [be] the ground for thy sake: in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all thy life's days;
¹⁸and thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat herbage of the field; (Gen. 3:17‑18)

;

Gen. 4:11‑12• ¹¹And now cursed [be] thou from the ground, which hath opened its mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand.
¹²When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield its strength to thee; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be on the earth. (Gen. 4:11‑12)

;

Gen. 5:29• ²⁹and he called his name Noah, saying, This [one] shall comfort us concerning our work and concerning toil of our hands because of the ground which Jehovah hath cursed. (Gen. 5:29)

;

Gen. 8:21‑22• ²¹And Jehovah smelled the odour of rest. And Jehovah said in his heart, I will not any more again curse the ground on account of man, for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; and I will not any more again smite every living thing as I have done.
²²Henceforth all the days of the earth, seed and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease. (Gen. 8:21‑22)

;

1 Kings 17:1,5,12• ¹And Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, As Jehovah the God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
⁵So he went and did according unto the word of Jehovah, for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
¹²And she said, As Jehovah thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse; and behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die. (1 Kings 17:1,5,12)

;

Jer. 14:2‑5,18• ²Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
³And their nobles send their little ones for water: they come to the pits, they find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are ashamed, they are confounded, and have covered their heads.
⁴Because the ground is chapt, for there hath been no rain on the earth, the plowmen are ashamed, they cover their heads.
⁵For the hind also calveth in the field, and forsaketh its young, because there is no grass.
¹⁸If I go forth into the field, behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, behold them that pine away with famine! For both prophet and priest shall go about into a land that they know not. (Jer. 14:2‑5,18)

;

Lam. 5:10• ¹⁰Our skins glow like an oven because of the hot blasts of famine. (Lam. 5:10)

;

Joel 1:4,8‑18• ⁴That which the palmerworm hath left hath the [swarming] locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.
⁸Lament as a virgin girded with sackcloth on account of the husband of her youth.
⁹The meat-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests howl, the ministers of Jehovah.
¹⁰The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
¹¹Be ashamed, ye husbandmen; howl, ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley: because the harvest of the field hath perished.
¹²The vine is dried up, and the fig-tree languisheth; the pomegranate-tree, the palm also and the apple-tree; all the trees of the field are withered, yea, joy is withered away from the children of men.
¹³Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests; howl, ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the oblation and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God.
¹⁴Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of Jehovah your God, and cry unto Jehovah.
¹⁵Alas for the day! for the day of Jehovah is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
¹⁶Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
¹⁷The seeds are rotten under their clods, the granaries are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
¹⁸How do the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are bewildered, for they have no pasture; the flocks of sheep also are in suffering. (Joel 1:4,8‑18)

;

Joel 2:3• 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. (Joel 2:3)

;

Amos 4:6‑9• ⁶And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.
⁷And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
⁸So two or three cities wandered into one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.
⁹I have smitten you with blasting mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig-trees and your olive-trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah. (Amos 4:6‑9)

;

Hag. 1:9‑11• ⁹Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? said Jehovah of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
¹⁰Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
¹¹And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands. (Hag. 1:9‑11)

;

Hag. 2:16‑17• ¹⁶since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the press-fat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.
¹⁷I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith Jehovah. (Hag. 2:16‑17)

;

Mal. 3:9‑12• ⁹Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
¹⁰Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith Jehovah of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
¹¹And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith Jehovah of hosts.
¹²And all nations shall call you blessed; for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith Jehovah of hosts. (Mal. 3:9‑12)

J. N. Darby Translation

Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.

W. Kelly Translation

Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.