Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

"Cursed will you be in the city and cursed will you be in the country.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

“You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the field.

Bible in Basic English

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

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

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

King James 2000

Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.

Lexham Expanded Bible

"You [shall] be cursed in the city, and [you shall] be cursed in the field.

Modern King James verseion

You shall be cursed in the city, and cursed in the field.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Cursed shalt thou be in the town, and cursed in the field;

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

Cursed, shalt thou be in the city, - and cursed, shalt thou be in the field:

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

Cursed art thou in the city, and cursed art thou in the field.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ארר 
'arar 
Usage: 63

shalt thou be in the city
עיר ער עיר 
`iyr 
Usage: 1094

and cursed
ארר 
'arar 
Usage: 63

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 28:16

Context Readings

Blessings And Curses

15 And it shall come to pass if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep, to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee today, that all these curses shall come upon thee and overtake thee. 16 Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country. 17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.

Cross References

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 shall be the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

Genesis 4:11-12

And now thou art cursed from the earth, which has opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;

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 has cursed.

Genesis 8:21-22

And the LORD smelled a savour of rest, and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, for the intent of man's heart is evil from his childhood; neither will I again smite any more every living thing as I have done.

Deuteronomy 28:3-14

Blessed shalt thou be in the city and blessed shalt thou be 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 shall have nothing left him in the siege and in the straitness with which thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.

1 Kings 17:1

Then Elijah, the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel lives, 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 the Jordan.

1 Kings 17:12

And she said, As the LORD thy God lives, I have no baked bread, but only a handful of meal in a pitcher and a little oil in a cruse; and now I was gathering two sticks that I may go in and prepare it for me and my son, that we may eat it and die.

Proverbs 3:33

The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked, but he shall bless the habitation of the just.

Isaiah 24:6-12

Therefore the curse has consumed the earth, and those that dwell therein are found guilty; therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are consumed, and few men left.

Isaiah 43:28

Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary and have set up Jacob as anathema, and Israel as a reproach.

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 14:2-5

Judah mourns, and its gates languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

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 those that are sick with famine! for both the prophet and the priest walked around in circles in the land, and they did not know it.

Jeremiah 26:6

then I will make this house like Shiloh and will give this city as a curse to all the Gentiles 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

Aleph How does the city sit solitary, that was full of people! The great one among the nations is become as a widow; the princess of provinces is become tributary.

Lamentations 2:11-22

Caph My eyes 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 faint in the streets of the city.

Lamentations 4:1-13

Aleph How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are scattered through the crossings of every street.

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin became black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

Joel 1:4

That which the palmerworm has left the locust has eaten; and that which the locust has left the cankerworm has eaten; and that which the cankerworm has left the caterpillar has eaten.

Joel 1:8-18

Lament like a young woman girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Joel 2:3

A fire devours before him and behind him a flame burns: the earth is as the garden of Eden before him, and behind him a desolate wilderness; neither shall anyone escape him.

Amos 4:6-9

I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities and want of bread in all your places: yet ye have not returned unto me, said the LORD.

Haggai 1:9-11

Ye look for much and find little; and when ye lock it up at home, I shall blow upon it. Why? said the LORD of the hosts. Because my house is deserted, and ye run each one of you unto his own house.

Haggai 2:16-17

since these things were: when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten; when one came to the pressfat to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.

Malachi 2:2

If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, said the LORD of the hosts, I will 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 3:9-12

Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye, even this whole nation, have robbed me.

Malachi 4:6

and he shall convert the heart of the fathers to the sons, and the heart of the sons to the fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with destruction.

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