Deuteronomy 28:18

Hebrew Names Version

Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Your offspring will be cursed,and your land’s produce,the young of your herds,and the newborn of your flocks.

King James Version
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.

Lexham English Bible
"The fruit of your womb shall be cursed and the fruit of you ground, the calves of your cattle and the lambs of your flock.

English Standard Version
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.

New Century Version
Your children will be cursed, as well as your crops; the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks will be cursed.

New English Translation
Your children will be cursed, as well as the produce of your soil, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.

Amplified Bible
"The offspring of your body and the produce of your land, the offspring of your herd and the young of your flock will be cursed.

New American Standard Bible
"Cursed will be the children of your womb, the produce of your ground, the newborn of your herd, and the offspring of your flock.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Cursed shall be the fruite of thy body, and the fruite of thy land, the increase of thy kine, & the flockes of thy sheepe.

Legacy Standard Bible
"Cursed shall be the offspring of your body and the produce of your ground, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock.

Contemporary English Version
You'll have only a few children, your crops will be small, and your herds of cattle and flocks of sheep and goats won't produce many young.

Complete Jewish Bible
"A curse on the fruit of your body, the fruit of your land and the young of your cattle and flocks.

Darby Translation
Cursed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, the offspring of thy kine, and the increase of thy sheep.

Easy-to-Read Version
He will curse you, and you will not have many children. He will curse your land, and you will not have good crops. He will curse your animals, and they will not have many babies. He will curse your calves and lambs.

George Lamsa Translation
Cursed shall be the fruit of your body and the fruit of your land, the herds of your oxen and the flocks of your sheep.

Good News Translation
"The Lord will curse you by giving you only a few children, poor crops, and few cattle and sheep.

Literal Translation
The fruit of your body shall be cursed, and the fruit of your land, the offspring of your oxen, and the young ones of your sheep.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Cursed shall be the frute of thy body, the frute of thy londe, the frute of thine oxen, and the frute of thy shepe.

American Standard Version
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.

Bible in Basic English
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.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Cursed shalbe the fruite of thy body, and the fruite of thy lande, and the increase of thy kine, and the flockes of thy sheepe.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the young of thy flock.

King James Version (1611)
Cursed shalbe the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheepe.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Cursed shall be the offspring of thy body, and the fruits of thy land, the herds of thine oxen, and the flocks of thy sheep.

English Revised Version
Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, the increase of thy kine, and the young of thy flock.

Berean Standard Bible
The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the produce of your land, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Cursid schal be the fruit of thi wombe, and the fruyt of thi lond; `cursid schulen be the drooues of thin oxun, and the flockis of thi scheep.

Young's Literal Translation
`Cursed [is] the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock.

Update Bible Version
Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.

New King James Version
"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
Your children and your crops will be cursed. The offspring of your herds and flocks will be cursed.

New Life Bible
Your children will be cursed, and the fruit of your ground, and the young of your cattle and flock.

New Revised Standard
Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle and the issue of your flock.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Cursed, shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground - the young of thy kine and the ewes of thy flock:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Cursed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, the herds of thy oxen, and the flocks of thy sheep.

Revised Standard Version
Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Cursed shall be the offspring of your body and the produce of your ground, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock.

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe to do all his mitzvot and his statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses shall come on you, and overtake you. ¹⁶ Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field. ¹⁷ Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough. ¹⁸ Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock. ¹⁹ Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out. ²⁰ The LORD 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, whereby you have forsaken me. ²¹ The LORD will make the pestilence cleave to you, until he have consumed you from off the land, where you go in to possess it. ²² The LORD will strike you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish. ²³ Your sky that is over your head shall be brass, and the eretz that is under you shall be iron. ²⁴ The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust: from the sky shall it come down on you, until you are destroyed.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the fruit of thy body: Deuteronomy 28:4, Deuteronomy 5:9, Job 18:16-19, Psalms 109:9-15, Lamentations 2:11, Lamentations 2:12, Lamentations 2:20, Hosea 9:11-14, Malachi 2:3, Luke 23:29, Luke 23:30

thy land: Deuteronomy 28:16, Leviticus 26:19, Leviticus 26:20, Leviticus 26:26, Habakkuk 3:17

Reciprocal: Genesis 9:25 - Cursed Deuteronomy 28:32 - sons Deuteronomy 28:53 - the fruit Jeremiah 15:7 - bereave Lamentations 2:22 - those

Cross-References

Genesis 22:3
Avraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Yitzchak his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.

Genesis 28:10
Ya`akov went out from Be'er-Sheva, and went toward Haran.

Genesis 28:12
He dreamed. Behold, a stairway set up on the eretz, and the top of it reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

Genesis 31:13
I am the God of Beit-El, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth."

Genesis 31:45
Ya`akov took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

Genesis 35:14
Ya`akov set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink-offering on it, and poured oil on it.

Genesis 35:20
Ya`akov set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.

Numbers 7:1
It happened on the day that Moshe had finished setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it, with all its furniture, and the altar with all its vessels, and had anointed and sanctified them;

1 Samuel 7:12
Then Shemu'el took a stone, and set it between Mitzpah and Shen, and called the name of it Even-Ha`ezer, saying, Hitherto has the LORD helped us.

2 Samuel 18:18
Now Avshalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar, which is in the king's dale; for he said, I have no son to keep my name in memory: and he called the pillar after his own name; and it is called Avshalom's monument, to this day.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

:-.

:-.

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.