Deuteronomy 28:19

King James Version

Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You will be cursed when you come inand cursed when you go out.

Hebrew Names Version
Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

Lexham English Bible
"You shall be cursed when you come in, and you shall be cursed when you go out.

English Standard Version
Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

New Century Version
You will be cursed when you go in and when you go out.

New English Translation
You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

Amplified Bible
"You will be cursed when you come in and you will be cursed when you go out.

New American Standard Bible
"Cursed will you be when you come in, and cursed will you be when you go out.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Cursed shalt thou be when thou commest in, and cursed also when thou goest out.

Legacy Standard Bible
"Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

Contemporary English Version
The Lord will make you fail in everything you do.

Complete Jewish Bible
"A curse on you when you come in, and a curse on you when you go out.

Darby Translation
Cursed shalt thou be in thy coming in, and cursed shalt thou be in thy going out.

Easy-to-Read Version
He will curse you at all times in everything you do.

George Lamsa Translation
Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

Good News Translation
"The Lord will curse everything you do.

Literal Translation
You shall be cursed when you come in, and you shall be cursed when you go out.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Cursed shalt thou be whan thou goest in, and cursed wha thou goest out.

American Standard Version
Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

Bible in Basic English
You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Cursed shalt thou be when thou goest in, and cursed when thou goest out.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

King James Version (1611)
Cursed shalt thou bee when thou commest in, and cursed shalt thou bee when thou goest out.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Cursed shalt thou be in thy coming in, and cursed shalt thou be in thy going out.

English Revised Version
Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

Berean Standard Bible
You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou schalt be cursid goynge in, and `thou schalt be cursid goynge out.

Young's Literal Translation
`Cursed [art] thou in thy coming in, and cursed [art] thou in thy going out.

Update Bible Version
Cursed you shall be when you come in, and cursed you shall be when you go out.

Webster's Bible Translation
Cursed [shalt] thou [be] when thou comest in, and cursed [shalt] thou [be] when thou goest out.

World English Bible
Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

New King James Version
"Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

New Living Translation
Wherever you go and whatever you do, you will be cursed.

New Life Bible
You will be cursed when you come in and when you go out.

New Revised Standard
Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Cursed, shalt thou be, when thou comest in, - and, cursed, shalt thou be, when thou goest out:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Cursed shalt thou be coming in, and cursed going out.

Revised Standard Version
Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

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
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Deuteronomy 28:6, Judges 5:6, Judges 5:7, 2 Chronicles 15:5

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 19:27 - thy going out Psalms 121:8 - thy going out

Cross-References

Genesis 12:8
And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the Lord , and called upon the name of the Lord .

Genesis 28:4
And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.

Genesis 28:5
And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.

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.

Genesis 35:1
And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.

Genesis 48:3
And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

1 Kings 12:29
And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.

Hosea 4:15
Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, The Lord liveth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Cursed [shalt] thou [be] when thou comest in, and cursed [shalt] thou [be] when thou goest out.

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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.