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Deuteronomy 28:16

Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.

KJV

Maledictus eris in civitate, maledictus in agro.

Vulgate

ἐπικατάρατος σὺ ἐν πόλει, καὶ ἐπικατάρατος σὺ ἐν ἀγρῷ·

LXX

Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.

ASV

אָר֥וּר אַתָּ֖ה בָּ/עִ֑יר וְ/אָר֥וּר אַתָּ֖ה בַּ/שָּׂדֶֽה

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

4 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אַתָּ֣ה
'th
pronoun · 1088×
אָר֣וּר
'rvr
verb · 63×
עִ֣יר
'yr
noun · 1093×
שָּׂדֶ֔ה
shdh
noun · 334×

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Deut 27:15 — Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and sa
  • Deut 28:18 — Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
  • Hag 1:9 — Ye looked for much, and lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own hou
  • Hag 2:16 — Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.
  • Isa 24:6 — Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
  • Jer 14:2 — Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
  • Jer 14:18 — If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land
  • Jer 44:22 — So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curs
  • Joel 1:4 — That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
  • Joel 1:8 — Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
  • Joel 2:3 — A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
  • Lam 2:11 — Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets o
  • Mal 2:2 — If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed the
  • Mal 3:9 — Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
  • Matt 25:41 — Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
  • Prov 3:33 — The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.