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 If you do not obey Jehovah your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes with which I charge you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: 16 Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country. 17 Your basket and your kneading bowl will be cursed.



Cross References

Genesis 3:17-18

He said to Adam: Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

Genesis 4:11-12

Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

Genesis 5:29

He named him Noah. He said: He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground Jehovah has cursed.

Genesis 8:21-22

Jehovah smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: Never again will I curse the ground because of man, for the intent of his heart is evil from childhood. I will never again destroy every living creature, as I have done.

Deuteronomy 28:3-14

Jehovah will bless your towns and your fields.

Deuteronomy 28:55

He will give none of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all that he has left. These are hardships your enemies will make you suffer during the blockade of all your cities.

1 Kings 17:1

Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab: By the living Jehovah, the God of Israel, whose servant I am, there will be no dew or rain in these years, but only at my word.

1 Kings 17:5

So he did as Jehovah said, living by the Cherith Brook, east of Jordan.

1 Kings 17:12

Then she said: By the life of Jehovah your God, I have nothing but a little meal, and a drop of oil in the bottle; and now I am getting two sticks together so that I may go in and make it ready for me and my son, so that we may have a meal before our death.

Proverbs 3:33

Jehovah puts a curse on the homes of the wicked, but blesses the homes of the just.

Isaiah 24:6-12

A curse devours the earth, and those who live in it are found guilty. Therefore, those living on the earth are burned, and few men are left.

Isaiah 43:28

That is why I will corrupt the leaders of the holy place. I will claim Jacob for destruction. I will set up Israel for ridicule.

Jeremiah 9:11

I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins. It will be a gathering place of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah desolation, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 14:2-5

Judah mourns and its gates collapse. The people of Judah are filled with bereavement as they sit on the ground. Their cry goes up from Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 14:18

If I go to the field, I see those killed because of war. If I go to the city, I see those sick because of famine. Prophets and priests wander through a land they have not heard of.'

Jeremiah 26:6

If you continue to disobey I will do to this Temple what I did to Shiloh, and all the nations of the world will use the name of this city as a curse.''

Jeremiah 44:22

This very day your land lies in ruins and no one lives in it. It has become a horrifying sight. People use its name as a curse because Jehovah could no longer endure your wicked and evil practices.

Lamentations 1:1

She sits alone. She was a town full of people! Once great among the nations she has become like a widow! She who was a princess among the countries has come under the yoke of forced labor!

Lamentations 2:11-22

My eyes fail from weeping. I am in torment. My heart is pulled out of me to the ground because my people are destroyed. Because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.

Lamentations 4:1-13

How dark the gold has become! How changed is the best gold! The stones of the holy place are dropping out at the top of every street.

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from the need of food.

Joel 1:4

That which the gnawing locust left the swarming locust ate. That which the swarming locust left the creeping locust ate. That which the creeping locust left other locusts ate.

Joel 1:8-18

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

Joel 2:3

A fire devours before them and behind them a flame burns! The land is like the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness. Yes, none have escaped them.

Amos 4:6-9

I also gave you cleanness of teeth (kept food from your teeth) in all your cities and lack of bread in all your places. Yet you have not returned to me, said Jehovah.

Haggai 1:9-11

You looked for much harvest and you received little. When you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? Said Jehovah of Hosts. Because my house lies in waste, while each of you run to his house.

Haggai 2:16-17

You would go to a pile of grain looking for twenty bushels, but there would be only ten. You would go to draw fifty gallons of wine from a vat and find only twenty.

Malachi 2:2

You must honor me by your actions. If you will not listen to what I say, and give glory and honor to my name, I will bring a curse on you. I will put a curse on the things you receive for your support. I have already put a curse on you. Your blessings are cursed already because you do not take my command seriously.

Malachi 3:9-12

A curse is on all of you because the whole nation is cheating me.

Malachi 4:6

He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers and bring them together again before I come and strike the earth with destruction (a curse).

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