Deuteronomy 28:3

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Summary

Deuteronomy 28:3

Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.

In the city

Zechariah 8:3

In the field

Malachi 3:10

General references

Mark 10:16

Bible References

In the city

And there He makes the hungry to dwell,
So that they may establish

an inhabited city,

A Song of Ascents.

How blessed is everyone who fears the Lord,

Who walks in His ways.

Let our sons in their youth be as grown-up plants,
And our daughters as corner pillars fashioned as for a palace;

“They will build houses and inhabit them;
They will also plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

Thus says the Lord, ‘I will return to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts will be called the Holy Mountain.’

In the field

Now Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. And the Lord blessed him,

It came about that from the time he made him overseer in his house and over all that he owned, the Lord

blessed the Egyptian’s house on account of Joseph; thus the Lord’s blessing was upon all that he owned, in the house and in the field.

“Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord,
“When the plowman will overtake the reaper
And the treader of grapes him who sows seed;
When the mountains will drip sweet wine
And all the hills will be dissolved.

Is the seed still in the barn? Even including the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate and the olive tree, it has not borne fruit. Yet from this day on I will bless you.’”

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this,” says the Lord of hosts, “if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until

it overflows.

General references

And He took them in His arms and began blessing them, laying His hands on them.