Deuteronomy 28:17

Contemporary English Version

You won't have enough bread to eat.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed.

Hebrew Names Version
Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough.

King James Version
Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.

Lexham English Bible
"Your basket shall be cursed and your kneading trough.

English Standard Version
Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

New Century Version
Your basket and your kitchen will be cursed.

New English Translation
Your basket and your mixing bowl will be cursed.

Amplified Bible
"Your basket and your kneading bowl will be cursed.

New American Standard Bible
"Cursed will be your basket and your kneading bowl.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Cursed shal thy basket be, & thy dough.

Legacy Standard Bible
"Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

Complete Jewish Bible
"A curse on your grain-basket and kneading-bowl.

Darby Translation
Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.

Easy-to-Read Version
He will curse you with empty baskets and pans.

George Lamsa Translation
Cursed shall be your breadbasket and your dough.

Good News Translation
"The Lord will curse your grain crops and the food you prepare from them.

Literal Translation
Your basket and your kneading-trough shall be cursed.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
cursed shal thy baßket be, and thy stoare.

American Standard Version
Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.

Bible in Basic English
A curse will be on your basket and on your bread-basin.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Cursed shalbe thy basket & thy store.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.

King James Version (1611)
Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Cursed shall be thy barns and thy stores.

English Revised Version
Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneadingtrough.

Berean Standard Bible
Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Cursid `schal be thi berne, and cursid schulen be thi relifs.

Young's Literal Translation
`Cursed [is] thy basket and thy kneading-trough.

Update Bible Version
Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough.

Webster's Bible Translation
Cursed [shall be] thy basket and thy store.

World English Bible
Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough.

New King James Version
"Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

New Living Translation
Your fruit baskets and breadboards will be cursed.

New Life Bible
Your basket and your bread pan will be cursed.

New Revised Standard
Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Cursed, shall be thy basket, and thy kneading-trough:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Cursed shall be thy barn, and cursed thy stores.

Revised Standard Version
Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ Moses said: Israel, today I am giving you the laws and teachings of the Lord your God. And if you don't obey them all, he will put many curses on you. ¹⁶ Your businesses and farms will fail. ¹⁷ You won't have enough bread to eat. ¹⁸ You'll have only a few children, your crops will be small, and your herds of cattle and flocks of sheep and goats won't produce many young. ¹⁹ The Lord will make you fail in everything you do. ²⁰ No matter what you try to accomplish, the Lord will confuse you, and you will feel his anger. You won't last long, and you may even meet with disaster, all because you rejected the Lord . ²¹The Lord will send terrible diseases to attack you, and you will never be well again. You will suffer with burning fever and swelling and pain until you die somewhere in the land that you captured. The Lord will make the sky overhead seem like a bronze roof that keeps out the rain, and the ground under your feet will become as hard as iron. Your crops will be scorched by the hot east wind or ruined by mildew. ²⁴ He will send dust and sandstorms instead of rain, and you will be wiped out. ²⁵ The Lord will let you be defeated by your enemies, and you will scatter in all directions. You will be a horrible sight for the other nations to see, ²⁶ and no one will disturb the birds and wild animals while they eat your dead bodies.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 28:5, Psalms 69:22, Proverbs 1:32, Haggai 1:6, Zechariah 5:3, Zechariah 5:4, Malachi 2:2, Luke 16:25

Cross-References

Genesis 28:1
Isaac called in Jacob, then gave him a blessing, and said: Don't marry any of those Canaanite women.

Genesis 28:13
The Lord was standing beside the ladder and said: I am the Lord God who was worshiped by Abraham and Isaac. I will give to you and your family the land on which you are now sleeping.

Genesis 28:22
This rock will be your house, and I will give back to you a tenth of everything you give me."

Exodus 3:6
I am the God who was worshiped by your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob." Moses was afraid to look at God, and so he hid his face.

Judges 13:22
Manoah said, "We have seen an angel. Now we're going to die."

2 Chronicles 5:14
The Lord 's glory was in that cloud, and the light from it was so bright that the priests could not stay inside to do their work.

Ecclesiastes 5:1
Be careful what you do when you enter the house of God. Some fools go there to offer sacrifices, even though they haven't sinned. But it's best just to listen when you go to worship.

Matthew 17:6
When the disciples heard the voice, they were so afraid that they fell flat on the ground.

Luke 2:9
All at once an angel came down to them from the Lord, and the brightness of the Lord's glory flashed around them. The shepherds were frightened.

Luke 8:35
The people went out to see what had happened, and when they came to Jesus, they also found the man. The demons had gone out of him, and he was sitting there at the feet of Jesus. He had clothes on and was in his right mind. But the people were terrified.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Cursed [shall be] thy basket and thy store.

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The curses correspond in form and number Deuteronomy 28:15-19 to the blessings Deuteronomy 28:3-6, and the special modes in which these threats should be executed are described in five groups of denunciations Deuteronomy 28:20-68.

Deuteronomy 28:20-26

First series of judgments. The curse of God should rest on all they did, and should issue in manifold forms of disease, in famine, and in defeat in war.

Deuteronomy 28:20

Vexation - Rather, confusion: the word in the original is used Deuteronomy 7:23; 1 Samuel 14:20 for the panic and disorder with which the curse of God smites His foes.

Deuteronomy 28:22

“Blasting” denotes (compare Genesis 41:23) the result of the scorching east wind; “mildew” that of an untimely blight falling on the green ear, withering it and marring its produce.

Deuteronomy 28:24

When the heat is very great the atmosphere in Palestine is often filled with dust and sand; the wind is a burning sirocco, and the air comparable to the glowing heat at the mouth of a furnace.

Deuteronomy 28:25

Shalt be removed - See the margin. The threat differs from that in Leviticus 26:33, which refers to a dispersion of the people among the pagan. Here it is meant that they should be tossed to and fro at the will of others, driven from one country to another without any certain settlement.

Deuteronomy 28:27-37

Second series of judgments on the body, mind, and outward circumstances of the sinners.

Deuteronomy 28:27

The “botch” (rather “boil;” see Exodus 9:9), the “emerods” or tumors 1Sa 5:6, 1 Samuel 5:9, the “scab” and “itch” represent the various forms of the loathsome skin diseases which are common in Syria and Egypt.

Deuteronomy 28:28

Mental maladies shah be added to those sore bodily plagues, and should Deuteronomy 28:29-34 reduce the sufferers to powerlessness before their enemies and oppressors.

Blindness - Most probably mental blindness; compare Lamentations 4:14; Zep 1:17; 2 Corinthians 3:14 ff.

Deuteronomy 28:30-33

See the marginal references for the fulfillment of these judgments.

Deuteronomy 28:38-48

Third series of judgments, affecting every kind of labor and enterprise until it had accomplished the total ruin of the nation, and its subjection to its enemies.

Deuteronomy 28:39

Worms - i. e. the vine-weevil. Naturalists prescribed elaborate precautions against its ravages.

Deuteronomy 28:40

Cast ... - Some prefer “shall be spoiled” or “plundered.”

Deuteronomy 28:43, Deuteronomy 28:44

Contrast Deuteronomy 28:12 and Deuteronomy 28:13.

Deuteronomy 28:46

Forever - Yet “the remnant” Romans 9:27; Romans 11:5 would by faith and obedience become a holy seed.

Deuteronomy 28:49-58

Fourth series of judgments, descriptive of the calamities and horrors which should ensue when Israel should be subjugated by its foreign foes.

Deuteronomy 28:49

The description (compare the marginal references) applies undoubtedly to the Chaldeans, and in a degree to other nations also whom God raised up as ministers of vengeance upon apostate Israel (e. g. the Medes). But it only needs to read this part of the denunciation, and to compare it with the narrative of Josephus, to see that its full and exact accomplishment took place in the wars of Vespasian and Titus against the Jews, as indeed the Jews themselves generally admit.

The eagle - The Roman ensign; compare Matthew 24:28; and consult throughout this passage the marginal references.

Deuteronomy 28:54

Evil - i. e. grudging; compare Deuteronomy 15:9.

Deuteronomy 28:57

Young one - The “afterbirth” (see the margin). The Hebrew text in fact suggests an extremity of horror which the King James Version fails to exhibit. Compare 2 Kings 6:29.

Deuteronomy 28:58-68

Fifth series of judgments. The uprooting of Israel from the promised land, and its dispersion among other nations. Examine the marginal references.

Deuteronomy 28:58

In this book - i. e. in the book of the Law, or the Pentateuch in so far as it contains commands of God to Israel. Deuteronomy is included, but not exclusively intended. So Deuteronomy 28:61; compare Deuteronomy 27:3 and note, Deuteronomy 31:9.

Deuteronomy 28:66

Thy life shall hang in doubt before thee - i. e. shall be hanging as it were on a thread, and that before thine own eyes. The fathers regard this passage as suggesting in a secondary or mystical sense Christ hanging on the cross, as the life of the Jews who would not believe in Him.

Deuteronomy 28:68

This is the climax. As the Exodus from Egypt was as it were the birth of the nation into its covenant relationship with God, so the return to the house of bondage is in like manner the death of it. The mode of conveyance, “in ships,” is added to heighten the contrast. They crossed the sea from Egypt with a high hand. the waves being parted before them. They should go back again cooped up in slaveships.

There ye shall be sold - Rather, “there shall ye offer yourselves, or be offered for sale.” This denunciation was literally fulfilled on more than one occasion: most signally when many thousand Jews were sold into slavery and sent into Egypt by Titus; but also under Hadrian, when numbers were sold at Rachel’s grave Genesis 35:19.

No man shall buy you - i. e. no one shall venture even to employ you as slaves, regarding you as accursed of God, and to be shunned in everything.