5 occurrences

'Curse' in the Bible

You must tell them: This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let a curse be on the man who does not obey the words of this covenant,

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GodThe Curse Of The LawBreaking The Covenant

For the land is full of adulterers;the land mourns because of the curse,and the grazing lands in the wilderness have dried up.Their way of life has become evil,and their power is not rightly used

Verse ConceptsBad LanguagedrynessPower, HumanCursingDry PlacesDrawbacks To Man's PowerSwearingAbuseadultry

I will pursue them with sword, famine, and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse and a desolation, an object of scorn and a disgrace among all the nations where I have banished them.

Verse ConceptsHissingFamine Coming From GodMade A Horror

Based on what happens to them, all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon will create a curse that says, ‘May the Lord make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire!’

Verse ConceptsBurning PeopleLike Bad PeopleCursing The Ungodly

For by Myself I have sworn”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“Bozrah will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and a curse, and all her cities will become ruins forever.”

Verse ConceptsMade A Horror

Bible Theasaurus

Blaspheme (17 instances)
Excommunicate (2 instances)
Execration (10 instances)
Nemesis (1 instance)
Scourge (23 instances)

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