16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.

Other Translations of Deuteronomy 28:16

King James Version

16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.

English Standard Version

16 Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.

The Message

16 God's curse in the city, God's curse in the country;

New King James Version

16 Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country.

New Living Translation

16 Your towns and your fields will be cursed.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Deuteronomy 28:16

Commentary on Deuteronomy 28:15-44

(Read Deuteronomy 28:15-44)

If we do not keep God's commandments, we not only come short of the blessing promised, but we lay ourselves under the curse, which includes all misery, as the blessing all happiness. Observe the justice of this curse. It is not a curse causeless, or for some light cause. The extent and power of this curse. Wherever the sinner goes, the curse of God follows; wherever he is, it rests upon him. Whatever he has is under a curse. All his enjoyments are made bitter; he cannot take any true comfort in them, for the wrath of God mixes itself with them. Many judgments are here stated, which would be the fruits of the curse, and with which God would punish the people of the Jews, for their apostacy and disobedience. We may observe the fulfilling of these threatenings in their present state. To complete their misery, it is threatened that by these troubles they should be bereaved of all comfort and hope, and left to utter despair. Those who walk by sight, and not by faith, are in danger of losing reason itself, when every thing about them looks frightful.