Deuteronomy 28:16
Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
Deuteronomy 28:16 in other translations
| BSB | You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country. |
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| 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. |
| YLT | ‘Cursed art thou in the city, and cursed art thou in the field. |
| DARBY | Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. |
| BBE | You will be cursed in the town and cursed in the field. |
| Webster | Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. |
What does Deuteronomy 28:16 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 28:15-20
15-20. But ... if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord--Curses that were to follow them in the event of disobedience are now enumerated, and they are almost exact counterparts of the blessings which were described in the preceding context as the reward of a faithful adherence to the covenant.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 28:15-44
If we do not keep God's commandments, we not only come short of the blessing promised, but we lay ourselves under the curse, which includes all misery, as the blessing all happiness. Observe the justice of this curse. It is not a curse causeless, or for some light cause. The extent and power of this curse. Wherever the sinner goes, the curse of God follows; wherever he is, it rests upon him. Whatever he has is under…
Deuteronomy 28:16 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Deuteronomy 28:16
- Malachi 3:9-12
Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord 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. And 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 the Lord of hosts. And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the Lord of hosts.
- 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. Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit. And 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.
- 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.
- 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. And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads. Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads. Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.
- 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. They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers’ bosom. What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee? Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment. …
- 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. I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the Lord.
- 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.
- Joel 1:8-18
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord’s ministers, mourn. The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished. …
- Malachi 2:2
If 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.
- Joel 2:3
A 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.
- Isaiah 24:6-12
Therefore 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. The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh. The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. …
- Proverbs 3:33
The curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
3-14; Pr 3:33; Isa 24:6-12; 43:28; Jer 9:11; 26:6; 44:22; La 1:1
La 2:11-22; 4:1-13; Mal 2:2; 4:6
in the field.
55; Ge 3:17,18; 4:11,12; 5:29; 8:21,22; 1Ki 17:1,5,12
Jer 14:2-5,18; La 5:10; Joe 1:4,8-18; 2:3; Am 4:6-9; Hag 1:9-11
Hag 2:16,17; Mal 3:9-12
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Context
- Deuteronomy 28:15
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:
- Deuteronomy 28:16
Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
- Deuteronomy 28:17
Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
Deuteronomy 28:16 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Maldito serás tu en la ciudad, y maldito en el campo. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | tu seras maudit dans la ville, et tu seras maudit dans les champs; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Verflucht wirst du sein in der Stadt, und verflucht wirst du sein auf dem Felde. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Maledictus eris in civitate, maledictus in agro. |