You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.
You are cursed with a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing Me.
You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of
Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.
If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both
Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth’s dwellers have been burned
What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust h
If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name,” says the LORD of Hosts, “I will send a curse
So the LORD could no longer endure the evil deeds and detestable acts you committed, and your land became a desolation,
My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of
“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.
Before them a fire devours, and behind them a flame scorches. The land before them is like the Garden of Eden, but behin
The curse of the LORD is on the house of the wicked, but He blesses the home of the righteous.
from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winep
“And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, with
Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD, the God of Israel,
When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, eve
You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.
How the gold has become tarnished, the pure gold has become dull! The gems of the temple lie scattered on every street c
How lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become a widow. The princess o
So Elijah did what the LORD had told him, and he went and lived by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.
then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city an object of cursing among all the nations of the ear
So I will disgrace the princes of your sanctuary, and I will devote Jacob to destruction and Israel to reproach.”
And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I comman
Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
“I afflicted all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me
And he named him Noah, saying, “May this one comfort us in the labor and toil of our hands caused by the ground that the
But she replied, “As surely as the LORD your God lives, I have no bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oi
And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers. Otherwise
refusing to share with any of them the flesh of his children he will eat because he has nothing left in the siege and di
Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your ha