Verse 16
Deuteronomy 28:16
World English Bible, British Edition
16
You will be cursed in the city, and you will be cursed in the field.
Original Language Text
hebrew
אָר֥וּר אַתָּ֖ה בָּ/עִ֑יר וְ/אָר֥וּר אַתָּ֖ה בַּ/שָּׂדֶֽה
English Translation
Cursed are you in the city, and cursed are you in the field.
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Chapter 28 Context
1
It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the LORD your God (Elohim)’s voice,
to observe to...
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2
All these blessings will come upon you, and overtake you, if you listen
to the LORD your God (Elohim...
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3
You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field.
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4
You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground,
the fruit of your animals,...
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5
Your basket and your kneading trough shall be blessed.
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6
You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed when
you go out.
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7
The LORD will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck
before you. They will come out...
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8
The LORD will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that
you put your hand to. He wi...
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9
The LORD will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn
to you, if you shall keep...
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10
All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the LORD’s
name, and they will be afra...
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11
The LORD will grant you abundant prosperity in the fruit of your body,
in the fruit of your livestoc...
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12
The LORD will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the
rain of your land in its season,...
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13
The LORD will make you the head, and not the tail. You will be above
only, and you will not be benea...
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14
and shall not turn away from any of the words which I command you today,
to the right hand or to the...
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15
But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the LORD
your God (Elohim)’s voice, to observe...
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16
You will be cursed in the city, and you will be cursed in the field.
17
Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.
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18
The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your
livestock, and the young of y...
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19
You will be cursed when you come in, and you will be cursed when you
go out.
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20
The LORD will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that
you put your hand to do, until...
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21
The LORD will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed
you from off the land where yo...
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22
The LORD will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation,
with fiery heat, with the...
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23
Your sky that is over your head will be bronze, and the earth that
is under you will be iron.
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24
The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust. It will come
down on you from the sky, unt...
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25
The LORD will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will
go out one way against them, and...
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26
Your dead bodies will be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals
of the earth; and there wi...
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27
The LORD will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with the tumours,
with the scurvy, and with the it...
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28
The LORD will strike you with madness, with blindness, and with astonishment
of heart.
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29
You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you
shall not prosper in your ways....
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30
You will betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. You will
build a house, and you won’t d...
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31
Your ox will be slain before your eyes, and you will not eat any of
it. Your donkey will be violentl...
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32
Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your
eyes will look and fail with long...
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33
A nation which you don’t know will eat the fruit of your ground and
all of your work. You will only...
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34
so that the sights that you see with your eyes will drive you mad.
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35
The LORD will strike you in the knees and in the legs with a sore boil,
of which you cannot be heale...
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36
The LORD will bring you, and your king whom you will set over yourselves,
to a nation that you have...
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37
You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword amongst all
the peoples where the LORD will...
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38
You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little
in, for the locust will consume...
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39
You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink
of the wine, nor harvest, becaus...
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40
You will have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you won’t
anoint yourself with the oil, f...
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41
You will father sons and daughters, but they will not be yours, for
they will go into captivity.
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42
Locusts will consume all of your trees and the fruit of your ground.
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43
The foreigner who is amongst you will mount up above you higher and
higher, and you will come down l...
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44
He will lend to you, and you won’t lend to him. He will be the head,
and you will be the tail.
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45
All these curses will come on you, and will pursue you and overtake
you, until you are destroyed, be...
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46
They will be for a sign and for a wonder to you and to your offspring
forever.
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47
Because you didn’t serve the LORD your God (Elohim) with joyfulness and with
gladness of heart, by r...
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48
therefore you will serve your enemies whom the LORD sends against you,
in hunger, in thirst, in nake...
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49
The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end
of the earth, as the eagle flie...
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50
a nation of fierce facial expressions, that doesn’t respect the elderly,
nor show favour to the youn...
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51
They will eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground,
until you are destroyed. The...
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52
They will besiege you in all your gates until your high and fortified
walls in which you trusted com...
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53
You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and
of your daughters, whom the LORD...
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54
The man who is tender amongst you, and very delicate, his eye will
be evil towards his brother, towa...
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55
so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children
whom he will eat, because he ha...
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56
The tender and delicate woman amongst you, who would not venture to
set the sole of her foot on the...
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57
towards her young one who comes out from between her feet, and towards
her children whom she bears;...
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58
If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written
in this book, that you may...
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59
then the LORD will make your plagues and the plagues of your offspring
fearful, even great plagues,...
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60
He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were
afraid of; and they will cling...
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61
Also every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book
of this law, the LORD will bri...
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62
You will be left few in number, even though you were as the stars of
the sky for multitude, because...
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63
It will happen that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and
to multiply you, so the LORD w...
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64
The LORD will scatter you amongst all peoples, from one end of the
earth to the other end of the ear...
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65
Amongst these nations you will find no ease, and there will be no rest
for the sole of your foot; bu...
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66
Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be afraid night and
day, and will have no assuranc...
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67
In the morning you will say, “I wish it were evening!” and at evening
you will say, “I wish it were...
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68
The LORD will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of
which I told to you that you woul...
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Verse Information
- Book
- Deuteronomy
- Chapter
- Chapter 28 (68 verses)
- Version
- World English Bible, British Edition