Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

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

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.

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 But it shall be, if thou do not hearken unto the voice of Yahweh thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I am commanding thee to-day, then shall come in upon thee all these curses and shall reach thee: - 16 Cursed, shalt thou be in the city, - and cursed, shalt thou be in the field: 17 Cursed, shall be thy basket, and thy kneading-trough:

Cross References

Genesis 3:17-18

And, to the man, he said, Because thou didst hearken to the voice of thy wife, and so didst eat of the tree as to which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, Accursed be the ground for thy sake, In pain, shalt thou eat of it, all the days of thy life;

Genesis 4:11-12

Now therefore, accursed, art thou, - from the ground which hath opened her mouth, to receive the shed-blood of thy brother at thy hand.

Genesis 5:29

and he called his name Noah saying, - This, one shall give us rest from our work, And from the grievous toil of our hands, By reason of the ground which Yahweh hath cursed,

Genesis 8:21-22

And Yahweh smelled a satisfying odour, so Yahweh said to himself. I will not, again, curse any more the ground for man's sake, although the device of the heart of man, be wicked from his youth, - neither will I again, any more smite 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 one of them, of the flesh of his sons which he will eat, because he hath nothing at all left him, - in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemy will straiten thee within all thy gates.

1 Kings 17:1

Then said Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, unto Ahab, By the life of Yahweh, God of Israel, before whom I stand, there shall not, these two years, be either dew or rain, - save at the bidding of my word.

1 Kings 17:5

So he went and did, according to the word of Yahweh, - yea he went and dwelt in the ravine of Cherith, which faceth the Jordan.

1 Kings 17:12

And she said - By the life of Yahweh, thy God, verily I have not a cake, only a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the cruse, - and lo! I have been gathering a couple of sticks, so I shall go in and make it ready for me and for my son, that we may eat it - and die!

Proverbs 3:33

The curse of Yahweh, is in the house of the lawless one, but, the home of the righteous, he blesseth.

Isaiah 24:6-12

For this cause, a curse, hath devoured the earth, And punished are the dwellers therein, - For this cause, are burned the inhabitants of the earth, And the men left remaining - are few.

Isaiah 43:28

So then I must needs profane the rulers of the holy place, - And deliver Jacob to be devoted to destruction, and Israel, unto reviling!

Jeremiah 9:11

Thus will I give up Jerusalem To heaps, A habitation for jackals, - And the cities of Judah, will I give up to desolation, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 14:2-5

Judah mourneth, And the gates thereof, pine They lie in gloom on the ground, - And the outcry Jerusalem, hath ascended;

Jeremiah 14:18

If I have gone out into the field, Then lo! the slain of the sword! And if have entered the city, Then lo! the diseases of famine! For, both prophet and priest, have trafficked against the land unnoticed.

Jeremiah 26:6

Then I will make this house like Shiloh, - And, this city, will I make a contempt to all the nations of the earth.

Jeremiah 44:22

so that Yahweh could no longer forbear because of the wickedness of your doings, because of the abominations which ye committed, - and your land became a desolation, and an astonishment, and a contempt without inhabitant - as at this day?

Lamentations 1:1

How is seated alone, the city that abounded with people, hath become as a widow, - She who abounded among the nations was a princess among provinces, hath come under tribute.

Lamentations 2:11-22

Blinded with tears are mine eyes, In ferment is my body, Poured out to the earth is my grief, for the sore hurt of the daughter of my people, - when child and suckling are swooning, in the broadways of the city.

Lamentations 4:1-13

How is dimmed the gold! changed the most fine gold! Poured out are the stones of the sanctuary, at the top of all the streets.

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin, as with a furnace, is scorched, because of the hot winds of famine.

Joel 1:4

That which was left by the creeping locust, hath the swarming locust eaten, and, that which was left by the swarming locust, hath the grass locust eaten; and, that which was left by the grass locust, hath the corn locust eaten.

Joel 1:8-18

Wail thou, like a virgin girded with sackcloth, for the owner of her youth.

Joel 2:3

Before him, hath a fire, devoured, and, after him, shall a flame, consume, - As the garden of Eden, is the land before him, but, after him, a desert most desolate, Moreover also, escape, giveth he none.

Amos 4:6-9

Moreover also, I, have given you cleanness of teeth throughout all your cities, and want of bread throughout all your dwelling-places, - Yet have ye not returned unto me, Declareth Yahweh.

Haggai 1:9-11

When ye looked for much, then lo! it came to little, when ye brought it home, then I did blow into it, - Because of what? Demandeth Yahweh of hosts, Because of my house, the which is in ruins, while ye keep running every man to his own house.

Haggai 2:16-17

So long were things thus, that, on coming unto a heap of twenty, then was it found to be ten, - on coming unto the vat to draw off fifty measures, then were there found to be twenty.

Malachi 2:2

If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my Name, saith Yahweh of hosts, then will I send among you the curse, and will curse your blessings, - and indeed I have cursed them, because ye are not at all laying it to heart.

Malachi 3:9-12

With a curse, have ye been cursing, and yet, me, have ye been defrauding, - the whole nation.

Malachi 4:6

And he shall bring back the heart of the fathers unto the children, and the heart of the children unto their fathers, - lest I come, and smite the land, with utter destruction.

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