Deuteronomy 28:3

Douay-Rheims Bible

Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed in the field.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You will be blessed in the cityand blessed in the country.

Hebrew Names Version
Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.

King James Version
Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.

Lexham English Bible
"You will be blessed in the city, and you will be blessed in the field.

English Standard Version
Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.

New Century Version
You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.

New English Translation
You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the field.

Amplified Bible
"You will be blessed in the city, and you will be blessed in the field.

New American Standard Bible
"Blessed will you be in the city, and blessed will you be in the country.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Blessed shalt thou be in the citie, & blessed also in the fielde.

Legacy Standard Bible
"Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.

Contemporary English Version
The Lord will make your businesses and your farms successful.

Complete Jewish Bible
"A blessing on you in the city, and a blessing on you in the countryside.

Darby Translation
Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.

Easy-to-Read Version
"He will bless you in the city and in the field.

George Lamsa Translation
Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.

Good News Translation
"The Lord will bless your towns and your fields.

Literal Translation
You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Blessed shalt thou be in the towne, and blessed in the felde.

American Standard Version
Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.

Bible in Basic English
A blessing will be on you in the town, and a blessing in the field.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Blessed shalt thou be in the citie, and blessed in the fielde

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.

King James Version (1611)
Blessed shalt thou bee in the citie, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.

English Revised Version
Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.

Berean Standard Bible
You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou schalt be blessid in citee, and blessid in feeld;

Young's Literal Translation
`Blessed [art] thou in the city, and blessed [art] thou in the field.

Update Bible Version
Blessed you shall be in the city, and blessed you shall be in the field.

Webster's Bible Translation
Blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the city, and blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the field.

World English Bible
Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.

New King James Version
"Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country.

New Living Translation
Your towns and your fields will be blessed.

New Life Bible
Good will come to you in the city, and good will come to you in the country.

New Revised Standard
Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Blessed shalt, thou be in the city, - and blessed shalt thou be in the field:

Revised Standard Version
Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country.

Contextual Overview

¹ Now if thou wilt hear the voice of all his commandments, which I command thee this day, the Lord thy God will make thee higher than all the nations that are on the earth. ² And all these blessings shall come upon thee and overtake thee: yet so if thou hear his precepts. ³ Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed in the field. ⁴ Blessed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the droves of thy herds, and the folds of thy sheep. ⁵ Blessed shall be thy barns and blessed thy stores. ⁶ Blessed shalt thou be coming in and going out. ⁷ The Lord shall cause thy enemies, that rise up against thee, to fall down before thy face: one way shall they come out against thee, and seven ways shall they flee before thee. ⁸ The Lord will send forth a blessing upon thy storehouses, and upon all the works of thy hands: and will bless thee in the land that thou shalt receive. ⁹ The Lord will raise thee up to be a holy people to himself, as he swore to thee: if thou keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways. ¹⁰ And all the people of the earth shall see that the name of the Lord is invocated upon thee, and they shall fear thee.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in the city: Psalms 107:36, Psalms 107:37, Psalms 128:1-5, Psalms 144:12-15, Isaiah 65:21-23, Zechariah 8:3-5

in the field: Genesis 26:12, Genesis 39:5, Amos 9:13, Amos 9:14, Haggai 2:19, Malachi 3:10, Malachi 3:11

Reciprocal: Leviticus 25:21 - I will Deuteronomy 7:13 - he will also Deuteronomy 28:16 - in the city Isaiah 65:23 - shall Mark 10:16 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.

Genesis 9:1
And God blessed Noe and his sons. And he said to them: Increase, and multiply, and fill the earth.

Genesis 13:16
And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: if any man be able to number the dust of the earth, he shall be able to number thy seed also.

Genesis 24:60
Wishing prosperity to their sister, and saying: Thou art our sister, mayst thou increase to thousands of thousands; and may thy seed possess the gates of their enemies.

Genesis 28:1
And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, saying: Take not a wife of the stock of Chanaan:

Genesis 28:6
And Esau seeing that his father had blessed Jacob, and had sent him into Mesopotamia of Syria, to marry a wife thence; and that after the blessing he had charged him, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Chanaan:

Genesis 28:17
And trembling, he said: How terrible is this place? this is no other but the house of God, and the gate of heaven.

Genesis 28:18
And Jacob arising in the morning, took the stone which he had laid under his head, and set it up for a title, pouring oil upon the top of it.

Genesis 35:11
And said to him: I am God almighty, increase thou and be multiplied. Nations and peoples of nations shall be from thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.

Genesis 41:52
And he named the second Ephraim, saying: God hath made me to grow in the land of my poverty.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the city,.... Not only in the city of Jerusalem, where the temple would be built, and there be blessed with the service, worship, and ordinances of God, but in all other cities of the land; where they should dwell in title, large, and spacious houses, and their cities should be walled and fenced, and be very populous; yet should enjoy health, and have plenty of all sorts of provisions brought unto them, as well as prosper in all kinds of merchandise there, as Aben Ezra notes:

and blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the field; in the country villages, and in all rural employments, in sowing and planting, as the same writer observes; in all kinds of husbandry, in the culture of the fields for corn, and of vineyards and oliveyards; all should prosper and succeed, and bring forth fruit abundantly.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A comparison of this chapter with Exodus 23:20-23 and Leviticus 26:0 will show how Moses here resumes and amplifies the promises and threats already set forth in the earlier records of the Law. The language rises in this chapter to the sublimest strains, especially in the latter part of it; and the prophecies respecting the dispersion and degradation of the Jewish nation in its later days are among the most remarkable in scripture. They are plain, precise, and circumstantial; and the fulfillment of them has been literal, complete, and undeniable.

The Blessing. The six repetitions of the word “blessed” introduce the particular forms which the blessing would take in the various relations of life.

Deuteronomy 28:5

The “basket” or bag was a customary means in the East for carrying about whatever might be needed for personal uses (compare Deuteronomy 26:2; John 13:29).

The “store” is rather the kneading-trough Exodus 8:3; Exodus 12:34. The blessings here promised relate, it will be observed, to private and personal life: in Deuteronomy 28:7 those which are of a more public and national character are brought forward.

Deuteronomy 28:9

The oath with which God vouchsafed to confirm His promises to the patriarchs (compare Genesis 22:16; Hebrews 6:13-14) contained by implication these gifts of holiness and eminence to Israel (compare the marginal references).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 28:3. In the city — In all civil employments. In the field - in all agricultural pursuits.