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Deuteronomy 28:18
Deuteronomy 28:18 is verse 18 of Deuteronomy chapter 28, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
The fruit of your womb will be cursed, as well as the produce of your land, the calves of your herds, and the lambs 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.
World English Bible
The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock will be cursed.
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Deuteronomy 28:16–20 · Berean Standard Bible
16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.
17 Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed.
18 The fruit of your womb will be cursed, as well as the produce of your land, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.
19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.
20 The LORD will send curses upon you, confusion and reproof in all to which you put your hand, until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the wickedness you have committed in forsaking Him.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Deuteronomy 28:4The fruit of your womb will be blessed, as well as the produce of your land and the offspring of your livestock— the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
Deuteronomy 5:9You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
Job 18:16The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.
Job 18:17The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
Job 18:19He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.
Psalms 109:9May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
Psalms 109:10May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.
Psalms 109:11May the creditor seize all he owns, and strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.
Psalms 109:12May there be no one to extend kindness to him, and no one to favor his fatherless children.
Psalms 109:13May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.
Psalms 109:14May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and the sin of his mother never be blotted out.
Psalms 109:15May their sins always remain before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth.
Lamentations 2:11My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
Lamentations 2:12They cry out to their mothers: “Where is the grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in the arms of their mothers.
Lamentations 2:20Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Hosea 9:11Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird, with no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception.
Hosea 9:12Even if they raise their children, I will bereave them of each one. Yes, woe be to them when I turn away from them!
Hosea 9:13I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a meadow. But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.
Hosea 9:14Give them, O LORD— what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!
Malachi 2:3Behold, I will rebuke your descendants, and I will spread dung on your faces, the waste from your feasts, and you will be carried off with it.
Luke 23:29Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’
Luke 23:30At that time ‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!”’
Deuteronomy 28:16You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.
Leviticus 26:19I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,
Leviticus 26:20and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.
Leviticus 26:26When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.
Habakkuk 3:17Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,