Deuteronomy 28:18

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“The fruit of your womb will be cursed, as well as the produce of your land, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.”

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BSBPD

“The fruit of your womb will be cursed, as well as the produce of your land, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, the increase of thy cattle, and the young of thy flock.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`Cursed <FI>is<Fi> the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Deuteronomy 28:18 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Leviticus 26:19I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,
  2. Leviticus 26:26When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.
  3. Deuteronomy 5:9You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
  4. Deuteronomy 28:4The fruit of your womb will be blessed, as well as the produce of your land and the offspring of your livestock— the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
  5. Deuteronomy 28:16You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.
  6. Job 18:16The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.
  7. Psalms 109:9May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
  8. Lamentations 2:11My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
  9. Lamentations 2:20Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
  10. Hosea 9:11Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird, with no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception.
  11. Hosea 9:12Even if they raise their children, I will bereave them of each one. Yes, woe be to them when I turn away from them!
  12. Hosea 9:14Give them, O LORD— what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!
  13. Habakkuk 3:17Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,
  14. Malachi 2:3Behold, I will rebuke your descendants, and I will spread dung on your faces, the waste from your feasts, and you will be carried off with it.
  15. Luke 23:29Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’

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