Deuteronomy 28:16

New American Bible - revised edition

May you be cursed in the city, and cursed in the country!

Cross References

Genesis 5:29

and named him Noah, saying, “This one shall bring us relief from our work and the toil of our hands, out of the very ground that the Lord has put under a curse.”

1 Kings 17:1

Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab: “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, during these years there shall be no dew or rain except at my word.”

1 Kings 17:12

She said, “As the Lord, your God, lives, I have nothing baked; there is only a handful of flour in my jar and a little oil in my jug. Just now I was collecting a few sticks, to go in and prepare something for myself and my son; when we have eaten it, we shall die.”

1 Kings 17:5

So he left and did as the Lord had commanded. He left and remained by the Wadi Cherith, east of the Jordan.

Job 24:18

He is swift on the surface of the water: their portion in the land is accursed, they do not turn aside by way of the vineyards.

Proverbs 3:33

The curse of the Lord is on the house of the wicked, but the dwelling of the just he blesses;

Isaiah 43:28

Till I repudiated the holy princes, put Jacob under the ban, exposed Israel to scorn.

Jeremiah 14:18

If I walk out into the field, look! those slain by the sword; If I enter the city, look! victims of famine. Both prophet and priest ply their trade in a land they do not know.

Jeremiah 26:6

I will treat this house like Shiloh, and make this city a curse for all the nations of the earth.

Jeremiah 44:22

The Lord could no longer bear the evil of your deeds, the abominations you were doing; then your land became a waste, a horror, a curse, without even one inhabitant, as it is today.

Jeremiah 9:11

Who is wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of the Lord spoken? Let him declare it! Why is the land ravaged, scorched like a wilderness no one crosses?

Lamentations 1:1

How solitary sits the city, once filled with people. She who was great among the nations is now like a widow. Once a princess among the provinces, now a toiling slave.

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin heats up like an oven, from the searing blasts of famine.

Joel 1:4

What the cutter left, the swarming locust has devoured; What the swarming locust left, the hopper has devoured; What the hopper left, the consuming locust has devoured.

Joel 2:3

Before it, fire devours, behind it flame scorches. The land before it is like the garden of Eden, and behind it, a desolate wilderness; from it nothing escapes.

Zechariah 5:4

I will send it forth—oracle of the Lord of hosts—so that it will come to the house of the thief, and into the house of the one who swears falsely by my name. It shall lodge within each house, consuming it, timber and stones.” Sixth Vision: The Basket of Wickedness.

Malachi 2:2

And if you do not take to heart giving honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, I will send a curse upon you and your blessing I will curse. In fact, I have already cursed it, because you do not take it to heart.

Deuteronomy 28:55

any share in the flesh of his children that he himself is using for food because nothing else is left him—such the siege and distress to which your enemy will subject you in all your communities.