Deuteronomy 28:16

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

“The Lord will curse you in the city and in the field.

Cross References

Malachi 2:2

Listen to me! Pay attention to what I say. Show honor to my name. If you don’t respect my name, bad things will happen to you. You will say blessings, but they will become curses. I will make bad things happen because you don’t show respect for my name.” This is what the Lord All-Powerful said.

Joel 2:3

The army will destroy the land like a burning fire. In front of them the land will be like the Garden of Eden. Behind them the land will be like an empty desert. Nothing will escape them.

Joel 1:4

What the cutting locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten. And what the swarming locust has left, the hopping locust has eaten. And what the hopping locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten!

Jeremiah 44:22

The Lord hated the terrible things you did, and he could not be patient with you any longer. So he made your country an empty desert. No one lives there now. Other people say bad things about that country.

Jeremiah 14:18

If I go into the country, I see the bodies of those killed in war. If I go into the city, I see people sick from hunger. The priests and prophets continue their work, but they don’t understand what is happening.’”

Proverbs 3:33

The Lord curses a wicked family, but he blesses the homes of those who live right.

Malachi 4:6

Elijah will help the parents become close to their children, and he will help the children become close to their parents. This must happen, or I will come and completely destroy your country.”

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is hot like an oven. We have a high fever because of our hunger.

Lamentations 1:1

Jerusalem once was a city full of people, but now the city is so empty. She was one of the greatest cities in the world, but now she is like a poor widow. She was once a princess among cities, but now she has been made a slave.

Jeremiah 26:6

If you don’t obey me, I will make my Temple in Jerusalem just like my Holy Tent at Shiloh. People all over the world will think of Jerusalem when they ask for bad things to happen to other cities.’”

Jeremiah 9:11

The Lord says, “I will make the city of Jerusalem a pile of garbage. It will be a home for jackals. I will destroy the cities in the land of Judah, so no one will live there.”

Isaiah 43:28

I will make your Temple leaders unfit to serve there. I will destroy Jacob. Bad things will happen to Israel.

1 Kings 17:12

The woman answered, “I promise you, before the Lord your God, that I have nothing but a handful of flour in a jar and a little bit of olive oil in a jug. I came here to gather a few pieces of wood for a fire to cook our last meal. My son and I will eat it and then die from hunger.”

1 Kings 17:5

So Elijah did what the Lord told him to do. He went to live near Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan River.

1 Kings 17:1

Elijah was a prophet from the town of Tishbe in Gilead. He said to King Ahab, “I serve the Lord, the God of Israel. By his power, I promise that no dew or rain will fall for the next few years. The rain will fall only when I command it to fall.”

Deuteronomy 28:55

He will have nothing left to eat, so he will eat his own children. And he will not share that meat with anyone—not even the other people in his own family. All these bad things will happen when your enemy comes to surround your cities and make you suffer.

Genesis 5:29

Lamech named his son Noah. Lamech said, “We work very hard as farmers because God cursed the ground. But Noah will bring us rest.”

Job 24:18

“You say, ‘Evil people are taken away like things carried away in a flood. The land they own is cursed, so no one goes to work in their vineyards.

Zechariah 5:4

The Lord All-Powerful says, ‘I will send that scroll to the houses of thieves and people who lie when they use my name to make promises. That scroll will settle there and destroy even the stones and wooden posts of their houses.’”