Deuteronomy 28:16 “You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.”

Deuteronomy 28:16

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

You will be cursed in the city, and you will be cursed in the field.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Cursed shalt thou bee in the towne, and cursed also in the fielde.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

'Cursed [art] thou in the city, and cursed [art] thou in the field.

Bible in Basic English

You will be cursed in the town and cursed in the field.

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Cross references

“in the city”

Proverbs 3:33 Isaiah 24:6–12 Jeremiah 44:22 Lamentations 2:11–22 Malachi 2:2 Deuteronomy 28:3–14

Proverbs 3:33 · BSB

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

Isaiah 24:6–12 · BSB

Therefore 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.

Jeremiah 44:22 · BSB

So 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.

Lamentations 2:11–22 · BSB

My 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.

Malachi 2:2 · BSB

If 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 ar…

Deuteronomy 28:3–14 · BSB

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

“in the field”

Malachi 3:9–12 Jeremiah 14:2–5 Jeremiah 14:18 Joel 1:4 Joel 1:8–18 Joel 2:3

Malachi 3:9–12 · BSB

You are cursed with a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing Me.

Jeremiah 14:2–5 · BSB

“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 14:18 · BSB

If 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.’”

Joel 1:4 · BSB

What 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 1:8–18 · BSB

Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.

Joel 2:3 · BSB

Before 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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

15If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

17Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed.

Read Deuteronomy 28