Deuteronomy 28:19

THE MESSAGE

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.

King James Version
Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest 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

¹⁵Here's what will happen if you don't obediently listen to the Voice of God , your God, and diligently keep all the commandments and guidelines that I'm commanding you today. All these curses will come down hard on you: God 's curse in the city, God 's curse in the country; God 's curse on your basket and bread bowl; God 's curse on your children, the crops of your land, the young of your livestock, the calves of your herds, the lambs of your flocks. God 's curse in your coming in, God 's curse in your going out. ²⁰ God will send The Curse, The Confusion, The Contrariness down on everything you try to do until you've been destroyed and there's nothing left of you—all because of your evil pursuits that led you to abandon me. ²¹ God will infect you with The Disease, wiping you right off the land that you're going in to possess. ²² God will set consumption and fever and rash and seizures and dehydration and blight and jaundice on you. They'll hunt you down until they kill you. ²³The sky over your head will become an iron roof, the ground under your feet, a slab of concrete. From out of the skies God will rain ash and dust down on you until you suffocate. ²⁵ God will defeat you by enemy attack. You'll come at your enemies on one road and run away on seven roads. All the kingdoms of Earth will see you as a horror. Carrion birds and animals will boldly feast on your dead body with no one to chase them away. ²⁷ God will hit you hard with the boils of Egypt, hemorrhoids, scabs, and an incurable itch. He'll make you go crazy and blind and senile. You'll grope around in the middle of the day like a blind person feeling his way through a lifetime of darkness; you'll never get to where you're going. Not a day will go by that you're not abused and robbed. And no one is going to help you. ³⁰You'll get engaged to a woman and another man will take her for his mistress; you'll build a house and never live in it; you'll plant a garden and never eat so much as a carrot; you'll watch your ox get butchered and not get a single steak from it; your donkey will be stolen from in front of you and you'll never see it again; your sheep will be sent off to your enemies and no one will lift a hand to help you. ³²Your sons and daughters will be shipped off to foreigners; you'll wear your eyes out looking vainly for them, helpless to do a thing. Your crops and everything you work for will be eaten and used by foreigners; you'll spend the rest of your lives abused and knocked around. What you see will drive you crazy. ³⁵ God will hit you with painful boils on your knees and legs and no healing or relief from head to foot.

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
He moved on from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent between Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. He built an altar there and prayed to God .

Genesis 28:5
So Isaac sent Jacob off. He went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Genesis 35:1
God spoke to Jacob: "Go back to Bethel. Stay there and build an altar to the God who revealed himself to you when you were running for your life from your brother Esau."

Genesis 48:3
Jacob said to Joseph, "The Strong God appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me. He said, ‘I'm going to make you prosperous and numerous, turn you into a congregation of tribes; and I'll turn this land over to your children coming after you as a permanent inheritance.' I'm adopting your two sons who were born to you here in Egypt before I joined you; they have equal status with Reuben and Simeon. But any children born after them are yours; they will come after their brothers in matters of inheritance. I want it this way because, as I was returning from Paddan, your mother Rachel, to my deep sorrow, died as we were on our way through Canaan when we were only a short distance from Ephrath, now called Bethlehem."

Hosea 4:15
"You've ruined your own life, Israel— but don't drag Judah down with you! Don't go to the sex shrine at Gilgal, don't go to that sin city Bethel, Don't go around saying ‘ God bless you' and not mean it, taking God's name in vain. Israel is stubborn as a mule. How can God lead him like a lamb to open pasture? Ephraim is addicted to idols. Let him go. When the beer runs out, it's sex, sex, and more sex. Bold and sordid debauchery— how they love it! The whirlwind has them in its clutches. Their sex-worship leaves them finally impotent."

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.