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Proverbs 3:33

The curse of the LORD is on the house of the wicked, but He blesses the home of the righteous.

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ASV

The curse of Jehovah is in the house of the wicked; But he blesseth the habitation of the righteous.

KJV

The curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.

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7 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
מְאֵרַ֣תme.'e.Rat[the] curse ofH3994 →
יְ֭הוָהYah.wehYahwehH3068 →
בְּבֵ֣יתbe.Veit[is] on [the] house ofH1004 →
רָשָׁ֑עra.Sha'[the] wickedH7563 →
וּנְוֵ֖הu.ne.Vehand [the] habitation ofH5116 →
צַדִּיקִ֣יםtza.di.Kimrighteous [people]H6662 →
יְבָרֵֽךְ׃ye.va.Rekhhe blessesH1288 →

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Psalms 37:22Surely those He blesses will inherit the land, but the cursed will be destroyed.Proverbs 14:11The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.Leviticus 26:14–46If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments,Psalms 91:10no evil will befall you, no plague will approach your tent.Job 8:6–7if you are pure and upright, even now He will rouse Himself on your behalf and restore your righteous estate.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.Zechariah 5:4I will send it out, declares the LORD of Hosts, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely by My name. It will remain inside his house and destroy it, down to its timbers and stones.”Psalms 37:16Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many who are wicked.Proverbs 21:12The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked and brings the wicked to ruin.Deuteronomy 7:26And you must not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. You are to utterly detest and abhor it, because it is set apart for destruction.2 Samuel 6:11Thus the ark of the LORD remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite for three months, and the LORD blessed him and all his household.Psalms 1:3He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.Deuteronomy 28:2–68And all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you, if you will obey the voice of the LORD your God:Zechariah 5:3–4Then he told me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the land, for according to one side of the scroll, every thief will be removed; and according to the other side, every perjurer will be removed.Deuteronomy 29:19–29because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.Joshua 7:13Get up and consecrate the people, saying, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Among you, O Israel, there are things devoted to destruction. You cannot stand against your enemies until you remove them.Deuteronomy 11:28but a curse if you disobey the commandments of the LORD your God and turn aside from the path I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.Psalms 112:8His heart is assured; he does not fear, until he looks in triumph on his foes.

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King Solomon in Old Age — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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