Deuteronomy 28:16
You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the field.
Genesis 3:17-18
But to Adam he said, "Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat from it,' cursed is the ground thanks to you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
Genesis 4:11-12
So now, you are banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
Genesis 5:29
He named him Noah, saying, "This one will bring us comfort from our labor and from the painful toil of our hands because of the ground that the Lord has cursed."
Genesis 8:21-22
And the Lord smelled the soothing aroma and said to himself, "I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of their minds is evil from childhood on. I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.
Deuteronomy 28:3-14
You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the field.
Deuteronomy 28:55
He will withhold from all of them his children's flesh that he is eating (since there is nothing else left), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.
1 Kings 17:1
Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As certainly as the Lord God of Israel lives (whom I serve), there will be no dew or rain in the years ahead unless I give the command."
1 Kings 17:5
So he did as the Lord told him; he went and lived in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.
1 Kings 17:12
She said, "As certainly as the Lord your God lives, I have no food, except for a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. Right now I am gathering a couple of sticks for a fire. Then I'm going home to make one final meal for my son and myself. After we have eaten that, we will die of starvation."
Proverbs 3:33
The Lord's curse is on the household of the wicked, but he blesses the home of the righteous.
Isaiah 24:6-12
So a treaty curse devours the earth; its inhabitants pay for their guilt. This is why the inhabitants of the earth disappear, and are reduced to just a handful of people.
Isaiah 43:28
So I defiled your holy princes, and handed Jacob over to destruction, and subjected Israel to humiliating abuse."
Jeremiah 9:11
The Lord said, "I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins. Jackals will make their home there. I will destroy the towns of Judah so that no one will be able to live in them."
Jeremiah 14:2-5
"The people of Judah are in mourning. The people in her cities are pining away. They lie on the ground expressing their sorrow. Cries of distress come up to me from Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 14:18
If I go out into the countryside, I see those who have been killed in battle. If I go into the city, I see those who are sick because of starvation. For both prophet and priest go about their own business in the land without having any real understanding.'"
Jeremiah 26:6
If you do not obey me, then I will do to this temple what I did to Shiloh. And I will make this city an example to be used in curses by people from all the nations on the earth.'"
Jeremiah 44:22
Finally the Lord could no longer endure your wicked deeds and the disgusting things you did. That is why your land has become the desolate, uninhabited ruin that it is today. That is why it has become a proverbial example used in curses.
Lamentations 1:1
(Alef)Alas! The city once full of people now sits all alone! The prominent lady among the nations has become a widow! The princess who once ruled the provinces has become a forced laborer!
Lamentations 2:11-22
(Kaf) My eyes are worn out from weeping; my stomach is in knots. My heart is poured out on the ground due to the destruction of my helpless people; children and infants faint in the town squares.
Lamentations 4:1-13
(Alef)Alas! Gold has lost its luster; pure gold loses value. Jewels are scattered on every street corner.
Lamentations 5:10
Our skin is hot as an oven due to a fever from hunger.
Joel 1:4
What the gazam-locust left the 'arbeh-locust consumed, what the 'arbeh-locust left the yeleq-locust consumed, and what the yeleq-locust left the hasil-locust consumed!
Joel 1:8-18
Wail like a young virgin clothed in sackcloth, lamenting the death of her husband-to-be.
Joel 2:3
Like fire they devour everything in their path; a flame blazes behind them. The land looks like the Garden of Eden before them, but behind them there is only a desolate wilderness -- for nothing escapes them!
Amos 4:6-9
"But surely I gave you no food to eat in any of your cities; you lacked food everywhere you live. Still you did not come back to me." The Lord is speaking!
Haggai 1:9-11
You expected a large harvest, but instead there was little, and when you brought it home it disappeared right away. Why?' asks the Lord who rules over all. 'Because my temple remains in ruins, thanks to each of you favoring his own house!
Haggai 2:16-17
From that time when one came expecting a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures from it, there were only twenty.
Malachi 2:2
If you do not listen and take seriously the need to honor my name," says the Lord who rules over all, "I will send judgment on you and turn your blessings into curses -- indeed, I have already done so because you are not taking it to heart.
Malachi 3:9-12
You are bound for judgment because you are robbing me -- this whole nation is guilty.
Malachi 4:6
He will encourage fathers and their children to return to me, so that I will not come and strike the earth with judgment."