Deuteronomy 28:17

King James Version

Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.

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.

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.

Bible in Basic English
A curse will be on your basket and on your bread-basin.

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 it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: ¹⁶ Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. ¹⁷ Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. ¹⁸ 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. ¹⁹ Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out. ²⁰ The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me. ²¹ The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it. ²² The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish. ²³ And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. ²⁴ The Lord shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

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
And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

Genesis 28:13
And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;

Genesis 28:22
And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.

Exodus 3:6
Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.

Judges 13:22
And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.

2 Chronicles 5:14
So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.

Ecclesiastes 5:1
Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

Matthew 17:6
And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid.

Luke 2:9
And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.

Luke 8:35
Then they went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus, and found the man, out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.

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.