Deuteronomy 28:16-20

28:16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the field. 28:17 Your basket and your mixing bowl will be cursed. 28:18 Your children ¹  will be cursed, as well as the produce of your soil, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks. 28:19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out. ² 

Curses by Disease and Drought

28:20 “The Lord will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you ³  in everything you undertake ⁴  until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me. ⁵ 

¹ tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

² sn See note on the similar expression in v. 6.

³ tn Heb “the curse, the confusion, and the rebuke” (NASB and NIV similar); NRSV “disaster, panic, and frustration.”

⁴ tn Heb “in all the stretching out of your hand.”

⁵ tc For the MT first person common singular suffix (“me”), the LXX reads either “Lord” (Lucian) or third person masculine singular suffix (“him”; various codices). The MT’s more difficult reading probably represents the original text.