Thematic Bible: Cursed
Thematic Bible
Birthday » Cursed
Cursed be the day on which I was born;
Do not bless the day on which my mother gave birth to me!
Why did I come out of the womb
To see trouble and sorrow,
So that my days have been filled with shame?
Ground » Cursed
He named him Noah, saying, “This one shall bring us rest and comfort from our work and from the [dreadful] toil of our hands because of the ground which the Lord cursed.”
Verse Concepts
Then to Adam the Lord God said, “Because you have listened [attentively] to the voice of your wife, and have eaten [fruit] from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’;
The ground is [now] under a curse because of you;
In sorrow and toil you shall eat [the fruit] of it
All the days of your life.
Verse Concepts
In sorrow and toil you shall eat [the fruit] of it
All the days of your life.
Jews, the » Denunciations against those who » Cursed
May peoples serve you,
And nations bow down to you;
Be lord and master over your brothers,
And may your mother’s sons bow down to you.
May those who curse you be cursed,
And may those who bless you be blessed.”
“He bowed down [to rest], he lies down as a lion;
And as a lioness, who dares to rouse him?
Blessed [of God] is he who blesses you,
And cursed [of God] is he who curses you.”