English Standard Version
Deuteronomy 28:18
18Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.
Deuteronomy 28:18 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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.
- New International Version (NIV)The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Cursed shall be the fruit of your body and the produce of your land, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Your children and your crops will be cursed. The offspring of your herds and flocks will be cursed.
Context of Deuteronomy 28:18
16Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field. 17Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. 19Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out. 20"The Lord will send on you curses, confusion, and frustration in all that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken me.
Read all of Deuteronomy 28Deuteronomy 28:18 word by word
אָר֥וּר פְּרִֽי־בִטְנְךָ֖ וּפְרִ֣י אַדְמָתֶ֑ךָ שְׁגַ֥ר אֲלָפֶ֖יךָ וְעַשְׁתְּר֥וֹת צֹאנֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Cursedאָרַר'ârar · to curseH779
- the fruitפְּרִיperîy · fruitH6529
- of thy bodyבֶּ֫טֶןbeţen · belly: wombH990
- of thy landאֲדָמָה'ădâmâh · land: soilH127
- the increaseשֶׁ֫גֶרsheger · offspringH7698
- of thy kineאֶ֫לֶף'eleph · cattleH504
- and the flocksעַשְׁתָּרוֹת‛ashterâh · youngH6251
- of thy sheepצֹאןtsô'n tse'ôn · flockH6629
Cross-references for Deuteronomy 28:18
- Deuteronomy 28:4Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.
- Deuteronomy 5:9You shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
- Job 18:16His roots dry up beneath, and his branches wither above.
- Psalms 109:9May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow!
- Lamentations 2:11My eyes are spent with weeping; my stomach churns; my bile is poured out to the ground because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because infants and babies faint in the streets of the city.
- Hosea 9:11Ephraim's glory shall fly away like a bird— no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
- Malachi 2:3Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and spread dung on your faces, the dung of your offerings, and you shall be taken away with it.
- Luke 23:29For behold, the days are coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!'
- Deuteronomy 28:16Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.
- Leviticus 26:19and I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.
- Habakkuk 3:17Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls,
Commentaries on Deuteronomy 28:18
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15-68Verses 15-68 The curses correspond in form and number Deuteronomy 28:15-19 to the blessings Deuteronomy 28:3-6, and the special modes in which these threats should be executed are described in five groups of denunciations Deuteronomy 28:20-26 First series of judgments. The curse of God should rest on all they did, and should issue in manifold forms of disease, in famine, and in defeat in war. Deuteronomy 28:20 Vexation - Rather, confusion: the word in the…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-44Verses 15-44 If we do not keep God's commandments, we not only come short of the blessing promised, but we lay ourselves under the curse, which includes all misery, as the blessing all happiness. Observe the justice of this curse. It is not a curse causeless, or for some light cause. The extent and power of this curse. Wherever the sinner goes, the curse of God follows; wherever he is, it rests upon him. Whatever he has is under a curse. All his…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-68This section explains the conditions for receiving the covenant blessing, the types of blessings, and the curses that will occur if people ignore or disobey these rules (28:1–14; 28:15–68).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 15-2015-20. But ... if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord--Curses that were to follow them in the event of disobedience are now enumerated, and they are almost exact counterparts of the blessings which were described in the preceding context as the reward of a faithful adherence to the covenant.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Deuteronomy 28
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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