Deuteronomy 28:16
New International Version
You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.

New Living Translation
Your towns and your fields will be cursed.

English Standard Version
Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.

Berean Standard Bible
You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.

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

New King James Version
“Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country.

New American Standard Bible
“Cursed will you be in the city, and cursed will you be in the country.

NASB 1995
“Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country.

NASB 1977
“Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country.

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

Amplified Bible
“You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the field.

Christian Standard Bible
You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
You are cursed in the city, you are cursed in the field.

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

Contemporary English Version
Your businesses and farms will fail.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Cursed shalt thou be in the city, cursed in the field.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.

Good News Translation
"The LORD will curse your towns and your fields.

International Standard Version
"Cursed will you be in the city and cursed will you be in the country.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.

Literal Standard Version
Cursed [are] you in the city, and cursed [are] you in the field.

Majority Standard Bible
You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.

New American Bible
May you be cursed in the city, and cursed in the country!

NET Bible
You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the field.

New Revised Standard Version
Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.

New Heart English Bible
You shall be cursed in the city, and you shall be cursed in the field.

Webster's Bible Translation
Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.

World English Bible
You will be cursed in the city, and you will be cursed in the field.

Young's Literal Translation
Cursed art thou in the city, and cursed art thou in the field.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Curses of Disobedience
15If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: 16You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country. 17Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:3
You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.

Malachi 2:2
If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name," says the LORD of Hosts, "I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already begun to curse them, because you are not taking it to heart.


Treasury of Scripture

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

in the city

Deuteronomy 28:3
Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.

Proverbs 3:33
The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.

Isaiah 24:6-12
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…

in the field

Deuteronomy 28:55
So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.

Genesis 3:17,18
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; …

Genesis 4:11,12
And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand; …

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(16-19) Cursed. . . .--Here we have the counterpart of Deuteronomy 28:3-6, inclusive. The only difference is in the position of "the basket and the store" which come one place earlier in the curses than in the blessings.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
You
אַתָּ֖ה (’at·tāh)
Pronoun - second person masculine singular
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

will be cursed
אָר֥וּר (’ā·rūr)
Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine singular
Strong's 779: To execrate

in the city
בָּעִ֑יר (bā·‘îr)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5892: Excitement

and cursed
וְאָר֥וּר (wə·’ā·rūr)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine singular
Strong's 779: To execrate

in the country.
בַּשָּׂדֶֽה׃ (baś·śā·ḏeh)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7704: Field, land


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