Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Cursed shalt thou be in the town, and cursed 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.

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 "But and if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God to keep and to do all his commandments and ordinances which I command thee this day; then all these curses shall come upon thee and overtake thee: 16 Cursed shalt thou be in the town, and cursed in the field; 17 cursed shall thine almery be and thy store.

Cross References

Genesis 3:17-18

And unto Adam he said, "Forasmuch as thou hast obeyed the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying 'See thou eat not thereof' cursed be the earth for thy sake. In sorrow shalt thou eat thereof all days of thy life:

Genesis 4:11-12

And now cursed be thou as pertaining to the earth, which opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood of thine hand.

Genesis 5:29

and called him Noah, saying, "This same shall comfort us: as concerning our work and sorrow of our hands which we have about the earth that the LORD hath cursed."

Genesis 8:21-22

And the LORD smelled a sweet savour and said in his heart, "I will henceforth no more curse the earth for man's sake, for the imagination of man's heart is evil even from the very youth of him. Moreover I will not destroy from henceforth all that liveth as I have done.

Deuteronomy 28:3-14

Blessed shalt thou be in the town and blessed in the fields;

Deuteronomy 28:55

for fear of giving unto any of them of the flesh of his children, which he eateth, because he hath nought left him in that straitness and siege wherewith thine enemy shall besiege thee in all thy cities.

1 Kings 17:1

And Elijah the Tishbite, which was of the inhabiters of Gilead, said unto Ahab, "As truly as the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, save as I appoint it."

1 Kings 17:5

And he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith that lieth before Jordan.

1 Kings 17:12

And she answered, "As surely as the LORD thy God liveth, I have no bread, but even a handful of meal in a pitcher, and a little oil in a cruse. And see, I have gathered a few sticks for to go and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it and then die."

Proverbs 3:33

The curse of the LORD is in the house of the ungodly, but he blesseth the dwellings of the righteous.

Isaiah 24:6-12

Therefore hath the curse consumed the earth; and they that dwell therein are fallen into trespass. Wherefore the inhabiters of the earth are perished with drought, and those that remain shall be very few.

Isaiah 43:28

Therefore I either suspended, or slew the chiefest princes: I did curse Jacob, and gave Israel into reproof."

Jeremiah 9:11

I will make Jerusalem also a heap of stones, and a den of venomous worms. And I will make the cities of Judah so waste, that no man shall dwell therein."

Jeremiah 14:2-5

"Judah shall mourn, men shall not go much more through his gates: the land shall be no more had in reputation, and the cry of Jerusalem shall break out.

Jeremiah 14:18

For if I go into the field, lo, it lieth all full of slain men: If I come into the city, lo, they be all famished of hunger. Yea, their prophets also and priests shall be led into an unknown land.'"

Jeremiah 26:6

then will I do to this house, as I did unto Shiloh, and will make this city to be abhorred of all the people of the earth.'"

Jeremiah 44:22

Insomuch that the LORD might no longer suffer the wickedness of your inventions, and the abominable things which ye did? Is not your land desolate and void; yea, and abhorred, so that no man dwelleth therein any more, as it is come to pass this day?

Lamentations 1:1

{Aleph} Alas, how sitteth the city so desolate, that some time was full of people? How is she become like a widow, which was the lady of all nations? How is she brought under tribute, that ruled all lands?

Lamentations 2:11-22

{Khaf} Mine eyes begin to fail me through weeping, my body is disquieted, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the great hurt of my people, seeing the children and babes did swoon in the streets of the city.

Lamentations 4:1-13

{Aleph} O how is the gold become so dim? How is the goodly colour of it so sore changed? And the stones of the sanctuary thus scattered in the corner of every street?

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is as it had been burnt in an oven, for very sore hunger.

Joel 1:4

Look, what the caterpillar hath left, that hath the grasshopper eaten up; what the grasshopper left, that hath the locust eaten up; and what the locust hath left, that hath the blasting consumed.

Joel 1:8-18

Make thy moan as a virgin doth that girdeth herself with sack, because of her bridegroom.

Joel 2:3

Before him shall be a consuming fire, and behind him a burning flame. The land shall be as a garden of pleasure before him, but behind him shall it be a very waste wilderness, and there is no man, that shall escape him.

Amos 4:6-9

"'Therefore have I given you idle teeth in all your cities, and scarceness of bread in all your places: yet will ye not turn unto me,' sayeth the LORD.

Haggai 1:9-11

Ye looked for much, and lo it is come to little: and though ye bring it home, yet do I blow it away. And why so, sayeth the LORD of Hosts? Even because that my house lieth so waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.

Haggai 2:16-17

that when ye came to a corn heap of twenty bushels, there were scarce ten: and that when ye came to the wine press for to pour out fifty pots of wine, there were scarce twenty.

Malachi 2:2

If ye will not hear it, nor regard it, to give the glory unto my name, sayeth the LORD of Hosts, I will send a curse upon you, and will curse your blessings. Yea, curse them will I if ye do not take heed.

Malachi 3:9-12

Therefore are ye cursed with penury, because ye dissemble with me, all the sort of you.

Malachi 4:6

He shall turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, that I come not and smite the earth with cursing."

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