Deuteronomy 28:18

World English Bible (2000)

The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock shall be cursed.

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  • Deut 28:4 : 4 You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.
  • Deut 28:16 : 16 You shall be cursed in the city, and you shall be cursed in the field.
  • Job 18:16-19 : 16 His roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall his branch be cut off. 17 His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street. 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. 19 He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.
  • Ps 109:9-9 : 9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. 10 Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins. 11 Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor. 12 Let there be none to extend kindness to him, neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children. 13 Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out. 14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by Yahweh. Don't let the sin of his mother be blotted out. 15 Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
  • Lam 2:11-12 : 11 My eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city. 12 They tell their mothers, Where is grain and wine? When they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, When their soul is poured out into their mothers' bosom.
  • Lam 2:20 : 20 Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
  • Hos 9:11-14 : 11 As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, none with child, and no conception. 12 Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them! 13 I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer. 14 Give them--Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
  • Hab 3:17 : 17 For though the fig tree doesn't flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls:
  • Mal 2:3 : 3 Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.
  • Luke 23:29-30 : 29 For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.' 30 Then they will begin to tell the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and tell the hills, 'Cover us.'
  • Lev 26:19-20 : 19 I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass; 20 and your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won't yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.
  • Lev 26:26 : 26 When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.
  • Deut 5:9 : 9 you shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them; for I, Yahweh, your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 28:3-6
    4 verses
    89%

    3 You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field.

    4 You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.

    5 Your basket and your kneading trough shall be blessed.

    6 You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed when you go out.

  • Deut 28:15-17
    3 verses
    88%

    15 But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses shall come on you, and overtake you.

    16 You shall be cursed in the city, and you shall be cursed in the field.

    17 Your basket and your kneading trough shall be cursed.

  • Deut 28:19-22
    4 verses
    85%

    19 You shall be cursed when you come in, and you shall be cursed when you go out.

    20 Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.

    21 Yahweh will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from off the land, where you go in to possess it.

    22 Yahweh will strike you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blight, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish.

  • Deut 28:11
    80%

    11 Yahweh will make you plenteous for good, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.

  • Deut 28:51
    78%

    51 and shall eat the fruit of your livestock, and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; that also shall not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.

  • Deut 28:30-31
    2 verses
    77%

    30 You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use its fruit.

    31 Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat of it: your donkey shall be violently taken away from before your face, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have none to save you.

  • Deut 28:41-42
    2 verses
    77%

    41 You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity.

    42 All your trees and the fruit of your ground shall the locust possess.

  • Deut 7:13-14
    2 verses
    76%

    13 and he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; he will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.

    14 You shall be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.

  • Deut 28:33-35
    3 verses
    76%

    33 The fruit of your ground, and all your labors, shall a nation which you don't know eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always;

    34 so that you shall be mad for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.

    35 Yahweh will strike you in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, of which you can not be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

  • Deut 28:8
    76%

    8 Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to; and he will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

  • Ps 37:22
    76%

    22 For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.

  • Deut 28:45-46
    2 verses
    74%

    45 All these curses shall come on you, and shall pursue you, and overtake you, until you are destroyed; because you didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you:

    46 and they shall be on you for a sign and for a wonder, and on your seed forever.

  • Deut 27:16
    74%

    16 'Cursed is he who sets light by his father or his mother.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

  • 2 Chr 21:14
    74%

    14 behold, Yahweh will strike with a great plague your people, and your children, and your wives, and all your substance;

  • Deut 28:24-26
    3 verses
    74%

    24 Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust: from the sky shall it come down on you, until you are destroyed.

    25 Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven ways before them: and you shall be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

    26 Your dead body shall be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there shall be none to frighten them away.

  • Lev 26:20
    73%

    20 and your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won't yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

  • Deut 28:38
    73%

    38 You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.

  • Lev 25:7
    73%

    7 For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.

  • Deut 28:28
    73%

    28 Yahweh will strike you with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart;

  • Isa 30:23
    73%

    23 He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.

  • Deut 30:9
    73%

    9 Yahweh your God will make you plenteous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good: for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers;

  • Deut 28:53
    73%

    53 You shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.

  • Deut 11:28-29
    2 verses
    73%

    28 and the curse, if you shall not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known.

    29 It shall happen, when Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal.

  • Mal 3:9
    73%

    9 You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.

  • Deut 29:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21 Yahweh will set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.

    22 The generation to come, your children who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which Yahweh has made it sick;

  • Deut 27:21
    72%

    21 'Cursed is he who lies with any kind of animal.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

  • Exod 9:3
    72%

    3 behold, the hand of Yahweh is on your livestock which are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the herds, and on the flocks with a very grievous pestilence.

  • Lev 26:16
    72%

    16 I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

  • Ps 21:10
    72%

    10 You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity from among the children of men.

  • Num 5:21
    72%

    21 then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, "Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Yahweh allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;

  • Deut 11:17
    72%

    17 and the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you.

  • Lev 24:15
    72%

    15 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.