Deuteronomy 28:16

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.

Cross References

Genesis 5:29

he named him Noah, saying, “Out of the ground that the Lord has cursed this one shall bring us relief from our work and from the toil of our hands.”

1 Kings 17:1

Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”

1 Kings 17:12

But she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of meal in a jar and a little oil in a jug; I am now gathering a couple of sticks so that I may go home and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it and die.”

1 Kings 17:5

So he went and did according to the word of the Lord; he went and lived by the Wadi Cherith, which is east of the Jordan.

Job 24:18

“Swift are they on the face of the waters; their portion in the land is cursed; no treader turns toward their vineyards.

Proverbs 3:33

The Lord’s curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the abode of the righteous.

Isaiah 43:28

Therefore I profaned the princes of the sanctuary; I delivered Jacob to utter destruction and Israel to reviling.

Jeremiah 14:18

If I go out into the field, look—those killed by the sword! And if I enter the city, look—those sick with famine! For both prophet and priest ply their trade throughout the land and have no knowledge.

Jeremiah 26:6

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

Jeremiah 44:22

The Lord could no longer bear the sight of your evil doings, the abominations that you committed; therefore your land became a desolation and a waste and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is to this day.

Jeremiah 9:11

I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the towns of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

Lamentations 1:1

How lonely sits the city that once was full of people! How like a widow she has become, she that was great among the nations! She that was a princess among the provinces has become subject to forced labor.

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is black as an oven from the scorching heat of famine.

Joel 1:4

What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten; and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.

Joel 2:3

Fire devours in front of them, and behind them a flame burns. Before them the land is like the garden of Eden, but after them a desolate wilderness, and nothing escapes them.

Zechariah 5:4

I have sent it out, says the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely by my name, and it shall abide in that house and consume it, both timber and stones.”

Malachi 2:2

If you will not listen, if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings; indeed, I have already cursed them because you do not lay it to heart.

Malachi 4:6

He will turn the hearts of parents to their children and the hearts of children to their parents, so that I will not come and strike the land with a curse.

Deuteronomy 28:55

giving to none of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because nothing else remains to him, in the desperate straits to which the enemy siege will reduce you in all your towns.