Deuteronomy 28:18

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

The fruit of thy body

Thy land

Deuteronomy 28:16

Leviticus 26:19

Habakkuk 3:17

General references

Genesis 4:11

Malachi 3:9

Bible References

The fruit of thy body

Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground and the fruit of thy cattle, - the young of thy kine, and the ewes of thy flock:

thou shalt not bow thyself down to them nor be led to serve them, - for, I Yahweh thy God, am a jealous GOD, visiting the iniquity of fathers upon sons even unto three generations and unto four, unto them that hate me;

Beneath, let his roots be dried up, and, above, be cut off his branch;

Let his children become fatherless, and his wife a widow;

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.

As for Ephraim! like a bird, did their glory, fly away, - no birth, and none with child, no conception.

Behold me! threatening, on your account, the seed, and I will scatter refuse upon your faces, the refuse of your festivals, - and one shall carry you away unto it;

For lo! days are coming, in which they will say - Happy the barren! even the wombs that never bare, and the breasts that never gave suck.

Thy land

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

So will I break your pomp of power, And will set your heavens as iron, and your land as bronze;

Though, the fig-tree, should not blossom, and there be no sprouting in the vines, the yield of the olive, should have deceived, and, the fields, not have brought forth food, - the flock, have been consumed out of the fold, and there be no herd in the stalls,

General references

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

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