Deuteronomy 28:16 Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:16

16: You will be cursed in your towns and in the country.

Proverbs 3:33

  1. The curse of the LORD is on the house of the wicked, but his blessing is on the home of the upright.

Joel 2:3

  1. Fire burns in front of them and follows them in every direction! Ahead of them the land lies as fair as the Garden of Eden in all its beauty. Behind them is nothing but desolation; not one thing escapes.

Lamentations 2:11

  1. I have cried until the tears no longer come. My heart is broken, my spirit poured out, as I see what has happened to my people. Little children and tiny babies are fainting and dying in the streets.
  2. "Mama, we want food," they cry, and then collapse in their mothers' arms. Their lives ebb away like the life of a warrior wounded in battle.
  3. In all the world has there ever been such sorrow? O daughter of Jerusalem, to what can I compare your anguish? O virgin daughter of Zion, how can I comfort you? For your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can heal you?
  4. Your "prophets" have said so many foolish things, false to the core. They did not try to hold you back from exile by pointing out your sins. Instead, they painted false pictures, filling you with false hope.
  5. All who pass by jeer at you. They scoff and insult Jerusalem, saying, "Is this the city called `Most Beautiful in All the World' and `Joy of All the Earth'?"

Malachi 2:2

  1. Listen to me and take it to heart. Honor my name," says the LORD Almighty, "or I will bring a terrible curse against you. I will curse even the blessings you receive. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you have not taken my warning seriously.

Joel 1:8

  1. Weep with sorrow, as a virgin weeps when her fiance has died.
  2. There is no grain or wine to offer at the Temple of the LORD. The priests are mourning because there are no offerings. Listen to the weeping of these ministers of the LORD!
  3. The fields are ruined and empty of crops. The grain, the wine, and the olive oil are gone.
  4. Despair, all you farmers! Wail, all you vine growers! Weep, because the wheat and barley--yes, all the field crops--are ruined.
  5. The grapevines and the fig trees have all withered. The pomegranate trees, palm trees, and apple trees--yes, all the fruit trees--have dried up. All joy has dried up with them.

Haggai 1:9

  1. You hoped for rich harvests, but they were poor. And when you brought your harvest home, I blew it away. Why? Because my house lies in ruins, says the LORD Almighty, while you are all busy building your own fine houses.
  2. That is why the heavens have withheld the dew and the earth has withheld its crops.
  3. I have called for a drought on your fields and hills--a drought to wither the grain and grapes and olives and all your other crops, a drought to starve both you and your cattle and to ruin everything you have worked so hard to get."

Jeremiah 14:2

  1. "Judah wilts; her businesses have ground to a halt. All the people sit on the ground in mourning, and a great cry rises from Jerusalem.
  2. The nobles send servants to get water, but all the wells are dry. The servants return with empty pitchers, confused and desperate, covering their heads in grief.
  3. The ground is parched and cracked for lack of rain. The farmers are afraid; they, too, cover their heads.
  4. The deer abandons her newborn fawn because there is no grass.

Isaiah 24:6

  1. Therefore, a curse consumes the earth and its people. They are left desolate, destroyed by fire. Few will be left alive.
  2. All the joys of life will be gone. The grape harvest will fail, and there will be no wine. The merrymakers will sigh and mourn.
  3. The clash of tambourines will be stilled; the happy cries of celebration will be heard no more. The melodious chords of the harp will be silent.
  4. Gone are the joys of wine and song; strong drink now turns bitter in the mouth.
  5. The city writhes in chaos; every home is locked to keep out looters.

Malachi 3:9

  1. You are under a curse, for your whole nation has been cheating me.
  2. Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so there will be enough food in my Temple. If you do," says the LORD Almighty, "I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great you won't have enough room to take it in! Try it! Let me prove it to you!
  3. Your crops will be abundant, for I will guard them from insects and disease. Your grapes will not shrivel before they are ripe," says the LORD Almighty.
  4. "Then all nations will call you blessed, for your land will be such a delight," says the LORD Almighty.

Jeremiah 14:18

  1. If I go out into the fields, I see the bodies of people slaughtered by the enemy. If I walk the city streets, there I see people who have died of starvation. The prophets and priests continue with their work, but they do not know what they are doing.'"

Joel 1:4

  1. After the cutting locusts finished eating the crops, the swarming locusts took what was left! After them came the hopping locusts, and then the stripping locusts, too!

Haggai 2:16

  1. When you hoped for a twenty-bushel crop, you harvested only ten. When you expected to draw fifty gallons from the winepress, you found only twenty.
  2. I sent blight and mildew and hail to destroy all the produce of your labor. Yet, even so, you refused to return to me, says the LORD.

Jeremiah 44:22

  1. It was because the LORD could no longer bear all the evil things you were doing that he made your land an object of cursing--a desolate ruin without a single inhabitant--as it is today.

Malachi 4:6

  1. His preaching will turn the hearts of parents to their children, and the hearts of children to their parents. Otherwise I will come and strike the land with a curse."

Lamentations 4:1

  1. How the gold has lost its luster! Even the finest gold has become dull. The sacred gemstones lie scattered in the streets!
  2. See how the precious children of Jerusalem, worth their weight in gold, are now treated like pots of clay.
  3. Even the jackals feed their young, but not my people Israel. They ignore their children's cries, like the ostriches of the desert.
  4. The parched tongues of their little ones stick with thirst to the roofs of their mouths. The children cry for bread, but no one has any to give them.
  5. The people who once ate only the richest foods now beg in the streets for anything they can get. Those who once lived in palaces now search the garbage pits for food.

1 Kings 17:12

  1. But she said, "I swear by the LORD your God that I don't have a single piece of bread in the house. And I have only a handful of flour left in the jar and a little cooking oil in the bottom of the jug. I was just gathering a few sticks to cook this last meal, and then my son and I will die."

Lamentations 1:1

  1. Jerusalem's streets, once bustling with people, are now silent. Like a widow broken with grief, she sits alone in her mourning. Once the queen of nations, she is now a slave.

Isaiah 43:28

  1. That is why I have disgraced your priests and assigned Israel a future of complete destruction and shame.

Genesis 8:21

  1. And the LORD was pleased with the sacrifice and said to himself, "I will never again curse the earth, destroying all living things, even though people's thoughts and actions are bent toward evil from childhood.
  2. As long as the earth remains, there will be springtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, day and night."

Genesis 3:17

  1. And to Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate the fruit I told you not to eat, I have placed a curse on the ground. All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it.
  2. It will grow thorns and thistles for you, though you will eat of its grains.

Jeremiah 26:6

  1. then I will destroy this Temple as I destroyed Shiloh, the place where the Tabernacle was located. And I will make Jerusalem an object of cursing in every nation on earth.'"

Deuteronomy 28:3

  1. You will be blessed in your towns and in the country.
  2. You will be blessed with many children and productive fields. You will be blessed with fertile herds and flocks.
  3. You will be blessed with baskets overflowing with fruit, and with kneading bowls filled with bread.
  4. You will be blessed wherever you go, both in coming and in going.
  5. "The LORD will conquer your enemies when they attack you. They will attack you from one direction, but they will scatter from you in seven!

Jeremiah 9:11

  1. "I will make Jerusalem into a heap of ruins," says the LORD. "It will be a place haunted by jackals. The towns of Judah will be ghost towns, with no one living in them."

Genesis 4:11

  1. You are hereby banished from the ground you have defiled with your brother's blood.
  2. No longer will it yield abundant crops for you, no matter how hard you work! From now on you will be a homeless fugitive on the earth, constantly wandering from place to place."

Deuteronomy 28:55

  1. He will refuse to give them a share of the flesh he is devouring--the flesh of one of his own children--because he has nothing else to eat during the siege that your enemy will inflict on all your towns.

Lamentations 5:10

  1. Because of the famine, our skin has been blackened as though baked in an oven.

Genesis 5:29

  1. Lamech named his son Noah, for he said, "He will bring us relief from the painful labor of farming this ground that the LORD has cursed."

1 Kings 17:5

  1. So Elijah did as the LORD had told him and camped beside Kerith Brook.

1 Kings 17:1

  1. Now Elijah, who was from Tishbe in Gilead, told King Ahab, "As surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives--the God whom I worship and serve--there will be no dew or rain during the next few years unless I give the word!"

Amos 4:6

  1. "I brought hunger to every city and famine to every town. But still you wouldn't return to me," says the LORD.
  2. "I kept the rain from falling when you needed it the most, ruining all your crops. I sent rain on one town but withheld it from another. Rain fell on one field, while another field withered away.
  3. People staggered from one town to another for a drink of water, but there was never enough. But still you wouldn't return to me," says the LORD.
  4. "I struck your farms and vineyards with blight and mildew. Locusts devoured all your fig and olive trees. But still you wouldn't return to me," says the LORD.
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