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Deuteronomy 28:16

You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
אָר֥וּר'a.Rur[will be] cursedH779 →
אַתָּ֖ה'a.TahyouH859 →
בָּעִ֑ירba.'Irin the cityH5892 →
וְאָר֥וּרve.'a.Rurand [will be] cursedH779 →
אַתָּ֖ה'a.TahyouH859 →
בַּשָּׂדֶֽה׃ba.sa.Dehin the open countryH7704 →

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Malachi 3:9–12You are cursed with a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing Me.Jeremiah 44:22So the LORD could no longer endure the evil deeds and detestable acts you committed, and your land became a desolation, a horror, and an object of cursing, without inhabitant, as it is this day.Proverbs 3:33The curse of the LORD is on the house of the wicked, but He blesses the home of the righteous.Joel 1:4What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.Joel 1:8–18Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.Jeremiah 14:18If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’”Haggai 1:9–11You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.Joel 2:3Before them a fire devours, and behind them a flame scorches. The land before them is like the Garden of Eden, but behind them, it is like a desert wasteland—surely nothing will escape them.Haggai 2:16–17from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths, there were but twenty.Isaiah 24:6–12Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth’s dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive.Malachi 2:2If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name,” says the LORD of Hosts, “I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already begun to curse them, because you are not taking it to heart.Lamentations 2:11–22My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.Jeremiah 14:2–5“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.Deuteronomy 28:18The fruit of your womb will be cursed, as well as the produce of your land, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.Jeremiah 9:11“And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”1 Kings 17:12But she replied, “As surely as the LORD your God lives, I have no bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. Look, I am gathering a couple of sticks to take home and prepare a meal for myself and my son, so that we may eat it and die.”1 Kings 17:1Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”Isaiah 43:28So I will disgrace the princes of your sanctuary, and I will devote Jacob to destruction and Israel to reproach.”

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Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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