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Deuteronomy 28:16

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “Cursed [shall] you [be] in the city, and cursed [shall] you [be] in the country.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Cursed [shalt] thou [be] in the city, and cursed [shalt] thou [be] in the field.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Cursed [shalt] thou [be] in the city, and cursed [shalt] thou [be] in the field.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Cursed, shalt thou be in the city,—and, cursed, shalt thou be in the field:
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— 'Cursed [art] thou in the city, and cursed [art] thou in the field.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Cursed shalt thou be in the city, cursed in the field.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Cursed shalt thou bee in the towne, and cursed also in the fielde.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Cursed [shalt] thou [be] in the city, and cursed [shalt] thou [be] in the field.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— Cursed [shalt] thou [be] in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Cursed [shalt] thou [be] in the city, and cursed [shalt] thou [be] in the field.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
Cursed 779
{0779} Prime
אָרַר
'arar
{aw-rar'}
A primitive root; to execrate.
z8803
<8803> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Participle Passive (See H8815)
Count - 1415
[shalt] thou x859
(0859) Complement
אַתָּה
'attah
{at-taw'}
A primitive pronoun of the second person; thou and thee, or (plural) ye and you.
[be] in the city, 5892
{5892} Prime
עִיר
`iyr
{eer}
From H5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post).
and cursed 779
{0779} Prime
אָרַר
'arar
{aw-rar'}
A primitive root; to execrate.
z8803
<8803> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Participle Passive (See H8815)
Count - 1415
[shalt] thou x859
(0859) Complement
אַתָּה
'attah
{at-taw'}
A primitive pronoun of the second person; thou and thee, or (plural) ye and you.
[be] in the field. 7704
{7704} Prime
שָׂדֶה
sadeh
{saw-deh'}
From an unused root meaning to spread out; a field (as flat).
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

See commentary on Deuteronomy 28:15-20.

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Deuteronomy 28:15-44.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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Geneva Bible Translation Notes

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Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
in the city:

Deuteronomy 28:3-14 Blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the city, and blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the field. ... And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, [to] the right hand, or [to] the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
Proverbs 3:33 The curse of the LORD [is] in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.
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. ... In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
Isaiah 43:28 Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.
Jeremiah 9:11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, [and] a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah 26:6 Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
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.
Lamentations 1:1 How doth the city sit solitary, [that was] full of people! [how] is she become as a widow! she [that was] great among the nations, [and] princess among the provinces, [how] is she become tributary!
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. ... Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
Lamentations 4:1-13 How is the gold become dim! [how] is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. ... For the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
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.
Malachi 4:6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

in the field:

Deuteronomy 28:55 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.
Genesis 3:17-18 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed [is] the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life; ... Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
Genesis 4:11-12 And now [art] thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand; ... When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Genesis 5:29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This [same] shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.
Genesis 8:21-22 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart [is] evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. ... While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
1 Kings 17:1 And Elijah the Tishbite, [who was] of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, [As] the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
1 Kings 17:5 So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that [is] before Jordan.
1 Kings 17:12 And she said, [As] the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I [am] gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
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. ... Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook [it], because there was no grass.
Jeremiah 14:18 If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.
Lamentations 5:10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
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. ... How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
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.
Amos 4:6-9 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. ... I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured [them]: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
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. ... 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.
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.
Malachi 3:9-12 Ye [are] cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, [even] this whole nation. ... And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.
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Chain-Reference Bible SearchCross References with Concordance

Gn 3:17; 4:11; 5:29; 8:21. Dt 28:3, 55. 1K 17:1, 5, 12. Pv 3:33. Is 24:6; 43:28. Jr 9:11; 14:2, 18; 26:6; 44:22. Lm 1:1; 2:11; 4:1; 5:10. Jol 1:4, 8; 2:3. Am 4:6. Hg 1:9; 2:16. Mal 2:2; 3:9; 4:6.

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