'Curses' in the Bible

" 'And one who curses his father or his mother will surely be put to death.

" 'If [there is] {anyone} who curses his father or his mother, he shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father and his mother--his blood [is] upon him.

And you shall speak to the {Israelites}, saying, '{Any man} when he curses his God shall bear his sin.

" 'And the priests will write these curses on the scroll, and he will wipe [them] off into the waters of the bitterness.

"{And then} if you do not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God {by diligently observing} all of his commandments and his statutes that I [am] commanding you {today}, then all of these curses shall come upon you, and they shall overtake you:

"And all of these curses shall come over you, and they shall pursue you, and they shall overtake you {until you are destroyed}, because {you did not listen} to the voice of Yahweh your God, {by observing} his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you.

Yahweh will not be willing to forgive him, for [by then] the anger of Yahweh will smoke, and his passion against that man and all the curses written in this scroll will descend on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under heaven.

And Yahweh will single him out for calamity out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in the scroll of this law.

So {the anger of Yahweh was kindled} against that land to bring upon it all the curses written in this scroll,

And Yahweh your God will put all these curses on your enemies and {on those who hate you}, [on] {those who harassed you}.

And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and the curses, according to all that was written in the scroll of the law.

I will make him know that I am about to judge his household forever because of the iniquity that he knew, for his sons [were] bringing curses on themselves, but he did not rebuke them.

The king said, "{What do we have in common}, sons of Zeruiah? If he curses because Yahweh has said to him 'Curse David,' who can say, "Why have you done this?"

"Thus says Yahweh: 'Behold, I am bringing disaster upon this place and upon its inhabitants--all the curses written in the scroll that were read before the king of Judah--

for [the] wicked boasts about the desire of his {heart}, and [the] one greedy for gain curses [and] treats Yahweh with contempt.

[By] the sin of their mouth [and] the words of their lips, even in their pride, let them be trapped, and for [the] curses and lies they proclaim.

He who curses his father and his mother, his lamp will be extinguished {in the midst of darkness}.

[For] he who gives to the poor, there is no lacking, but [for] he who turns his eyes, [there are] many curses.