Isaiah 42:24-25

42:24 Who handed Jacob over to the robber?

Who handed Israel over to the looters? ¹ 

Was it not the Lord, against whom we sinned?

They refused to follow his commands;

they disobeyed his law. ² 

42:25 So he poured out his fierce anger on them,

along with the devastation ³  of war.

Its flames encircled them, but they did not realize it; ⁴ 

it burned against them, but they did notice. ⁵ 

Isaiah 65:15

65:15 Your names will live on in the curse formulas of my chosen ones. ⁶ 

The sovereign Lord will kill you,

but he will give his servants another name.

Deuteronomy 28:15-20

Curses as Reversal of Blessings

28:15 “But if you ignore ⁷  the Lord your God and are not careful to keep all his commandments and statutes I am giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you in full force: ⁸  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 ⁹  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. ¹⁰ 

Curses by Disease and Drought

28:20 “The Lord will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you ¹¹  in everything you undertake ¹²  until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me. ¹³ 

Deuteronomy 29:21-28

29:21 The Lord will single him out ¹⁴  for judgment ¹⁵  from all the tribes of Israel according to all the curses of the covenant written in this scroll of the law. 29:22 The generation to come – your descendants who will rise up after you, as well as the foreigner who will come from distant places – will see ¹⁶  the afflictions of that land and the illnesses that the Lord has brought on it. 29:23 The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his intense anger. ¹⁷  29:24 Then all the nations will ask, “Why has the Lord done all this to this land? What is this fierce, heated display of anger ¹⁸  all about?” 29:25 Then people will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. 29:26 They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods they did not know and that he did not permit them to worship. ¹⁹  29:27 That is why the Lord’s anger erupted against this land, bringing on it all the curses ²⁰  written in this scroll. 29:28 So the Lord has uprooted them from their land in anger, wrath, and great rage and has deported them to another land, as is clear today.”

Psalms 79:4

79:4 We have become an object of disdain to our neighbors;

those who live on our borders taunt and insult us. ²¹ 

Jeremiah 24:9

24:9 I will bring such disaster on them that all the kingdoms of the earth will be horrified. I will make them an object of reproach, a proverbial example of disaster. I will make them an object of ridicule, an example to be used in curses. ²²  That is how they will be remembered wherever I banish them. ²³ 

Daniel 9:14

9:14 The LORD was mindful of the calamity, and he brought it on us. For the LORD our God is just ²⁴  in all he has done, ²⁵  and we have not obeyed him. ²⁶ 

Zechariah 8:13

8:13 And it will come about that just as you (both Judah and Israel) were a curse to the nations, so I will save you and you will be a blessing. Do not be afraid! Instead, be strong!’

Luke 21:21-24

21:21 Then those who are in Judea must flee ²⁷  to the mountains. Those ²⁸  who are inside the city must depart. Those ²⁹  who are out in the country must not enter it, 21:22 because these are days of vengeance, ³⁰  to fulfill ³¹  all that is written. 21:23 Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! For there will be great distress ³²  on the earth and wrath against this people. 21:24 They ³³  will fall by the edge ³⁴  of the sword and be led away as captives ³⁵  among all nations. Jerusalem ³⁶  will be trampled down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. ³⁷ 

Luke 21:1

The Widow’s Offering

21:1 Jesus ³⁸  looked up ³⁹  and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box. ⁴⁰ 

Luke 2:16

2:16 So they hurried off and located Mary and Joseph, and found the baby lying in a manger. ⁴¹ 

[42:24]  ¹ tn Heb “Who gave to the robber Jacob, and Israel to the looters?” In the first line the consonantal text (Kethib) has מְשׁוֹסֶה (mÿshoseh), a Polel participle from שָׁסָה (shasah, “plunder”). The marginal reading (Qere) is מְשִׁיסָּה (mÿshissah), a noun meaning “plunder.” In this case one could translate “Who handed Jacob over as plunder?”

[42:24]  ² tn Heb “they were not willing in his ways to walk, and they did not listen to his law.”

[42:25]  ³ tn Heb “strength” (so KJV, NASB); NAB “fury”; NASB “fierceness”; NIV “violence.”

[42:25]  ⁴ tn Heb “and it blazed against him all around, but he did not know.” The subject of the third feminine singular verb “blazed” is the divine חֵמָה (khemah, “anger”) mentioned in the previous line.

[42:25]  ⁵ tn Heb “and it burned against him, but he did not set [it] upon [the] heart.”

[65:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “you will leave your name for an oath to my chosen ones.”

[28:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “do not hear the voice of.”

[28:15]  ⁸ tn Heb “and overtake you” (so NIV, NRSV); NAB, NLT “and overwhelm you.”

[28:18]  ⁹ tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[28:19]  ¹¹ sn See note on the similar expression in v. 6.

[28:20]  ¹³ tn Heb “the curse, the confusion, and the rebuke” (NASB and NIV similar); NRSV “disaster, panic, and frustration.”

[28:20]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “in all the stretching out of your hand.”

[28:20]  ¹⁵ 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.

[29:21]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “set him apart.”

[29:21]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “for evil”; NAB “for doom”; NASB “for adversity”; NIV “for disaster”; NRSV “for calamity.”

[29:22]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “will say and see.” One expects a quotation to appear, but it seems to be omitted. To avoid confusion in the translation, the verb “will say” is omitted.

[29:23]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “the anger and the wrath.” This construction is a hendiadys intended to intensify the emotion.

[29:24]  ²¹ tn Heb “this great burning of anger”; KJV “the heat of this great anger.”

[29:26]  ²³ tn Heb “did not assign to them”; NASB, NRSV “had not allotted to them.”

[29:27]  ²⁵ tn Heb “the entire curse.”

[79:4]  ²⁷ tn Heb “an [object of] taunting and [of] mockery to those around us.” See Ps 44:13.

[24:9]  ²⁹ tn Or “an object of reproach in peoples’ proverbs…an object of ridicule in people’s curses.” The alternate translation treats the two pairs which are introduced without vavs (ו) but are joined by vavs as examples of hendiadys. This is very possible here but the chain does not contain this pairing in 25:18; 29:18.

[24:9]  ³⁰ tn Heb “I will make them for a terror for disaster to all the kingdoms of the earth, for a reproach and for a proverb, for a taunt and a curse in all the places which I banish them there.” The complex Hebrew sentence has been broken down into equivalent shorter sentences to conform more with contemporary English style.

[9:14]  ³¹ tn Or “righteous.”

[9:14]  ³² tn Heb “in all his deeds which he has done.”

[9:14]  ³³ tn Heb “we have not listened to his voice.”

[21:21]  ³³ sn Fleeing to the mountains is a key OT image: Gen 19:17; Judg 6:2; Isa 15:5; Jer 16:16; Zech 14:5.

[21:21]  ³⁴ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[21:21]  ³⁵ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[21:22]  ³⁵ tn Or “of punishment.” This is a time of judgment.

[21:22]  ³⁶ tn The passive construction with the infinitive πλησθῆναι (plhsqhnai) has been translated as an active construction for simplicity, in keeping with contemporary English style.

[21:23]  ³⁷ sn Great distress means that this is a period of great judgment.

[21:24]  ³⁹ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[21:24]  ⁴⁰ tn Grk “by the mouth of the sword” (an idiom for the edge of a sword).

[21:24]  ⁴¹ sn Here is the predicted judgment against the nation until the time of Gentile rule has passed: Its people will be led away as captives.

[21:24]  ⁴² tn Grk “And Jerusalem.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[21:24]  ⁴³ sn Until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled implies a time when Israel again has a central role in God’s plan.

[21:1]  ⁴¹ tn Grk “He”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity. Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[21:1]  ⁴² tn Grk “looking up, he saw.” The participle ἀναβλέψας (anableya") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[21:1]  ⁴³ tn On the term γαζοφυλάκιον (gazofulakion), often translated “treasury,” see BDAG 186 s.v., which states, “For Mk 12:41, 43; Lk 21:1 the mng. contribution box or receptacle is attractive. Acc. to Mishnah, Shekalim 6, 5 there were in the temple 13 such receptacles in the form of trumpets. But even in these passages the general sense of ‘treasury’ is prob., for the contributions would go [into] the treasury via the receptacles.” Based upon the extra-biblical evidence (see sn following), however, the translation opts to refer to the actual receptacles and not the treasury itself.

[2:16]  ⁴³ tn Or “a feeding trough.”