Deuteronomy 28:17

Bible in Basic English

A curse will be on your basket and on your bread-basin.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed.

Hebrew Names Version
Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough.

King James Version
Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.

Lexham English Bible
"Your basket shall be cursed and your kneading trough.

English Standard Version
Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

New Century Version
Your basket and your kitchen will be cursed.

New English Translation
Your basket and your mixing bowl will be cursed.

Amplified Bible
"Your basket and your kneading bowl will be cursed.

New American Standard Bible
"Cursed will be your basket and your kneading bowl.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Cursed shal thy basket be, & thy dough.

Legacy Standard Bible
"Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

Contemporary English Version
You won't have enough bread to eat.

Complete Jewish Bible
"A curse on your grain-basket and kneading-bowl.

Darby Translation
Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.

Easy-to-Read Version
He will curse you with empty baskets and pans.

George Lamsa Translation
Cursed shall be your breadbasket and your dough.

Good News Translation
"The Lord will curse your grain crops and the food you prepare from them.

Literal Translation
Your basket and your kneading-trough shall be cursed.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
cursed shal thy baßket be, and thy stoare.

American Standard Version
Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Cursed shalbe thy basket & thy store.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.

King James Version (1611)
Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Cursed shall be thy barns and thy stores.

English Revised Version
Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneadingtrough.

Berean Standard Bible
Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Cursid `schal be thi berne, and cursid schulen be thi relifs.

Young's Literal Translation
`Cursed [is] thy basket and thy kneading-trough.

Update Bible Version
Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough.

Webster's Bible Translation
Cursed [shall be] thy basket and thy store.

World English Bible
Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough.

New King James Version
"Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

New Living Translation
Your fruit baskets and breadboards will be cursed.

New Life Bible
Your basket and your bread pan will be cursed.

New Revised Standard
Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Cursed, shall be thy basket, and thy kneading-trough:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Cursed shall be thy barn, and cursed thy stores.

Revised Standard Version
Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ But if you do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to do all his orders and his laws which I give you today, then all these curses will come on you and overtake you: ¹⁶ You will be cursed in the town and cursed in the field. ¹⁷ A curse will be on your basket and on your bread-basin. ¹⁸ A curse will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock. ¹⁹ You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out. ²⁰ The Lord will send on you cursing and trouble and punishment in everything to which you put your hand, till sudden destruction overtakes you; because of your evil ways in which you have been false to me. ²¹ The Lord will send disease after disease on you, till you have been cut off by death from the land to which you are going. ²² The Lord will send wasting disease, and burning pain, and flaming heat against you, keeping back the rain till your land is waste and dead; so will it be till your destruction is complete. ²³ And the heaven over your heads will be brass, and the earth under you hard as iron. ²⁴ The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust, sending it down on you from heaven till your destruction is complete.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 28:5, Psalms 69:22, Proverbs 1:32, Haggai 1:6, Zechariah 5:3, Zechariah 5:4, Malachi 2:2, Luke 16:25

Cross-References

Genesis 28:1
Then Isaac sent for Jacob, and blessing him, said, Do not take a wife from among the women of Canaan;

Genesis 28:13
And he saw the Lord by his side, saying, I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: I will give to you and to your seed this land on which you are sleeping.

Genesis 28:22
And this stone which I have put up for a pillar will be God's house: and of all you give me, I will give a tenth part to you.

Exodus 3:6
And he said, I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses kept his face covered for fear of looking on God.

Judges 13:22
And Manoah said to his wife, Death will certainly be our fate, for it is a god whom we have seen.

2 Chronicles 5:14
So that the priests were not able to keep their places to do their work because of the cloud; for the house of God was full of the glory of the Lord.

Ecclesiastes 5:1
Put your feet down with care when you go to the house of God, for it is better to give ear than to make the burned offerings of the foolish, whose knowledge is only of doing evil.

Matthew 17:6
And at these words the disciples went down on their faces in great fear.

Luke 2:9
And an angel of the Lord came to them, and the glory of the Lord was shining round about them: and fear came on them.

Luke 8:35
And they went out to see what had taken place, and they came to Jesus and saw the man out of whom the evil spirits had gone, seated, clothed and with full use of his senses, at the feet of Jesus; and fear came on them.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Cursed [shall be] thy basket and thy store.

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 28:20-68.

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 original is used Deuteronomy 7:23; 1 Samuel 14:20 for the panic and disorder with which the curse of God smites His foes.

Deuteronomy 28:22

“Blasting” denotes (compare Genesis 41:23) the result of the scorching east wind; “mildew” that of an untimely blight falling on the green ear, withering it and marring its produce.

Deuteronomy 28:24

When the heat is very great the atmosphere in Palestine is often filled with dust and sand; the wind is a burning sirocco, and the air comparable to the glowing heat at the mouth of a furnace.

Deuteronomy 28:25

Shalt be removed - See the margin. The threat differs from that in Leviticus 26:33, which refers to a dispersion of the people among the pagan. Here it is meant that they should be tossed to and fro at the will of others, driven from one country to another without any certain settlement.

Deuteronomy 28:27-37

Second series of judgments on the body, mind, and outward circumstances of the sinners.

Deuteronomy 28:27

The “botch” (rather “boil;” see Exodus 9:9), the “emerods” or tumors 1Sa 5:6, 1 Samuel 5:9, the “scab” and “itch” represent the various forms of the loathsome skin diseases which are common in Syria and Egypt.

Deuteronomy 28:28

Mental maladies shah be added to those sore bodily plagues, and should Deuteronomy 28:29-34 reduce the sufferers to powerlessness before their enemies and oppressors.

Blindness - Most probably mental blindness; compare Lamentations 4:14; Zep 1:17; 2 Corinthians 3:14 ff.

Deuteronomy 28:30-33

See the marginal references for the fulfillment of these judgments.

Deuteronomy 28:38-48

Third series of judgments, affecting every kind of labor and enterprise until it had accomplished the total ruin of the nation, and its subjection to its enemies.

Deuteronomy 28:39

Worms - i. e. the vine-weevil. Naturalists prescribed elaborate precautions against its ravages.

Deuteronomy 28:40

Cast ... - Some prefer “shall be spoiled” or “plundered.”

Deuteronomy 28:43, Deuteronomy 28:44

Contrast Deuteronomy 28:12 and Deuteronomy 28:13.

Deuteronomy 28:46

Forever - Yet “the remnant” Romans 9:27; Romans 11:5 would by faith and obedience become a holy seed.

Deuteronomy 28:49-58

Fourth series of judgments, descriptive of the calamities and horrors which should ensue when Israel should be subjugated by its foreign foes.

Deuteronomy 28:49

The description (compare the marginal references) applies undoubtedly to the Chaldeans, and in a degree to other nations also whom God raised up as ministers of vengeance upon apostate Israel (e. g. the Medes). But it only needs to read this part of the denunciation, and to compare it with the narrative of Josephus, to see that its full and exact accomplishment took place in the wars of Vespasian and Titus against the Jews, as indeed the Jews themselves generally admit.

The eagle - The Roman ensign; compare Matthew 24:28; and consult throughout this passage the marginal references.

Deuteronomy 28:54

Evil - i. e. grudging; compare Deuteronomy 15:9.

Deuteronomy 28:57

Young one - The “afterbirth” (see the margin). The Hebrew text in fact suggests an extremity of horror which the King James Version fails to exhibit. Compare 2 Kings 6:29.

Deuteronomy 28:58-68

Fifth series of judgments. The uprooting of Israel from the promised land, and its dispersion among other nations. Examine the marginal references.

Deuteronomy 28:58

In this book - i. e. in the book of the Law, or the Pentateuch in so far as it contains commands of God to Israel. Deuteronomy is included, but not exclusively intended. So Deuteronomy 28:61; compare Deuteronomy 27:3 and note, Deuteronomy 31:9.

Deuteronomy 28:66

Thy life shall hang in doubt before thee - i. e. shall be hanging as it were on a thread, and that before thine own eyes. The fathers regard this passage as suggesting in a secondary or mystical sense Christ hanging on the cross, as the life of the Jews who would not believe in Him.

Deuteronomy 28:68

This is the climax. As the Exodus from Egypt was as it were the birth of the nation into its covenant relationship with God, so the return to the house of bondage is in like manner the death of it. The mode of conveyance, “in ships,” is added to heighten the contrast. They crossed the sea from Egypt with a high hand. the waves being parted before them. They should go back again cooped up in slaveships.

There ye shall be sold - Rather, “there shall ye offer yourselves, or be offered for sale.” This denunciation was literally fulfilled on more than one occasion: most signally when many thousand Jews were sold into slavery and sent into Egypt by Titus; but also under Hadrian, when numbers were sold at Rachel’s grave Genesis 35:19.

No man shall buy you - i. e. no one shall venture even to employ you as slaves, regarding you as accursed of God, and to be shunned in everything.