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Bible Verses About Divine Cursing

This collection includes 50 passages about Divine Cursing. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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And the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:

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And the Lord thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.

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The Lord will not spare him, but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.

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As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

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And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.

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How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the Lord hath not defied?

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Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.

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And all the evil of the men of Shechem did God render upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.

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And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:

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Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah:

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Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:

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Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.

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And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.

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Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

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And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord God shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:

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Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.

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Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

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But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:

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Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.

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As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

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And say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel; Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant,

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

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Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.

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And the Lord shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:

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And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.

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And the Lord heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,

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And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:

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The curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.

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If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the Lord of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.

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And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the Lord hath said unto him, Curse David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so?

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Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.

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Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.

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Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:

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Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the Lord bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

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Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.

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The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

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And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.

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The Lord shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.

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And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

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He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.

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