Haller's Concordance: CURSE
- And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of man's heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more destroy every living soul as I have done. Gen. 8:21
- I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, and IN THEE shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. Gen. 12:3
- But thou shalt be clear from my curse, when thou shalt come to my kindred, if they will not give thee one. Gen. 24:41
- If my father should feel me, and perceive it, I fear lest he will think I would have mocked him, and I shall bring upon me a curse instead of a blessing. Gen. 27:12
- And his mother said to him: Upon me be this curse, my son: only hear thou my voice, and go, fetch me the things which I have said. Gen. 27:13
- Thou shalt not speak ill of the gods, and the prince of thy people thou shalt not curse. Ex. 22:28
- These curses shall light upon thee: The Lord make thee a curse, and an example for all among his people: may he make thy thigh to rot, and may thy belly swell and burst asunder. Num. 5:21
- And when she hath drunk them, if she be defiled, and having despised her husband be guilty of adultery, the malediction shall go through her, and her belly swelling, her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse, and an example to all the people. Num. 5:27
- Come therefore, and curse this people, because it is mightier than I: if by any means I may beat them and drive them out of my land: for I know that he whom thou shalt bless is blessed, and he whom thou shalt curse is cursed. Num. 22:6
- Saying: Behold a people that is come out of Egypt, hath covered the face of the land: come and curse them, if by any means I may fight with them and drive them away. Num. 22:11
- And God said to Balaam: Thou shalt not go with them, nor shalt thou curse the people: because it is blessed. Num. 22:12
- For I am ready to honour thee, and will give thee whatsoever thou wilt: come and curse this people. Num. 22:17
- And taking up his parable, he said: Balac king of the Moabites hath brought me from Aram, from the mountains of the east: Come, said he, and curse Jacob: make haste and detest Israel. Num. 23:7
- How shall I curse him, whom God hath not cursed? By what means should I detest him, whom the Lord detesteth not? Num. 23:8
- And Balac said to Balaam: What is this that thou dost? I sent for thee to curse my enemies: and thou contrariwise blessest them. Num. 23:11
- Balac therefore said: Come with me to another place from whence thou mayest see part of Israel, and canst not see them all: curse them from thence. Num. 23:13
- And Balac said to Balaam: Neither curse, nor bless him. Num. 23:25
- And Balac said to him: Come and I will bring thee to another place; if peradventure it please God that thou mayest curse them from thence. Num. 23:27
- And Balac being angry against Balaam, clapped his hands together and said: I called thee to curse my enemies, and thou on the contrary hast blessed them three times. Num. 24:10
- Behold I set forth in your sight this day a blessing and a curse: Dt. 11:26
- A curse, if you obey not the commandments of the Lord your God, but revolt from the way which now I shew you, and walk after strange gods which you know not. Dt. 11:28
- And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, whither thou goest to dwell, thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Garizim, the curse upon mount Hebal: Dt. 11:29
- Because they would not meet you with bread and water in the way, when you came out of Egypt: and because they hired against thee Balaam, the son of Beor, from Mesopotamia in Syria, to curse thee. Dt. 23:4
- And over against them shall stand on mount Hebal to curse: Ruben, Gad, and Aser, and Zabulon, Dan, and Nephtali. Dt. 27:13
- ¤ Now when all these things shall be come upon thee, the blessing or the curse, which I have set forth before thee, and thou shalt be touched with repentance of thy heart among all the nations, into which the Lord thy God shall have scattered thee, Dt. 30:1
- Arise, sanctify the people, and say to them: Be ye sanctified against tomorrow: for thus saith the Lord God of Israel: The curse is in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thy enemies, till he be destroyed out of thee, that is defiled with this wickedness. Josu. 7:13
- Therefore you shall be under a curse, and your race shall always be hewers of wood, and carriers of water, into the house of my God. Josu. 9:23
- And Balac son of Sephor king of Moab arose and fought against Israel. And he sent and called for Balaam son of Beor, to curse you: Josu. 24:9
- Curse ye the land of Meroz, said the angel of the Lord: curse the inhabitants thereof, because they came not to the help of the Lord, to help his most valiant men. Judg. 5:23
- The Sichemites also were rewarded for what they had done, and the curse of Joatham, the son of Jerobaal, came upon them. Judg. 9:57
- For as to our own daughters we cannot give them, being bound with an oath and a curse, whereby we said: Cursed be he that shall give Benjamin any of his daughters to wife. Judg. 21:18
- For I thy servant have killed both a lion and a bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be also as one of them. I will go now, and take away the reproach of the people: for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, who hath dared to curse the army of the living God? 1 Ki. 17:36
- And Abisai the son of Sarvia said to the king: Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? I will go, and cut off his head. 2 Ki. 16:9
- And the king said: What have I to do with you, ye sons of Sarvia? Let him alone and let him curse: for the Lord hath bid him curse David: and who is he that shall dare say, why hath he done so? 2 Ki. 16:10
- And the king said to Abisai, and to all his servants: Behold my son, who came forth from my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now a son of Jemini? let him alone that he may curse as the Lord hath bidden him. 2 Ki. 16:11
- Thou hast also with thee Semei, the son of Gera, the son of Jemini, of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse, when I went to the camp: but because he came down to meet me when I passed over the Jordan, and I swore to him by the Lord, saying: I will not kill thee with the sword: 3 Ki. 2:8
- Whatsoever curse or imprecation shall happen to any man of thy people Israel: when a man shall know the wound of his own heart, and shall spread forth his hands in this house; 3 Ki. 8:38
- And thy heart hath been moved to fear, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord, hearing the words against this place, and the inhabitants thereof, to wit, that they should become a wonder and a curse: and thou hast rent thy garments, and wept before me; I also have heard thee; saith the Lord. 4 Ki. 22:19
- If any man sin against his neighbour, and come to swear against him, and bind himself with a curse before the altar in this house: 2 Par. 6:22
- All that were in Juda with a curse: for with all their heart they swore, and with all their will they sought him, and they found him, and the Lord gave them rest round about. 2 Par. 15:15
- Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and water: and they hired against them Balaam, to curse them, and our God turned the curse into blessing. 2 Esd. 13:2
- And I chid them, and laid my curse upon them. And I beat some of them, and shaved off their hair, and made them swear by God that they would not give their daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for their sons, nor for themselves, saying: 2 Esd. 13:25
- Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to raise up a leviathan: Job 3:8
- For I have not given my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse to his soul. Job 31:30
- For such as bless him shall inherit the land: but such as curse him shall perish. Ps. 37:22
- They will curse and thou wilt bless: let them that rise up against me be confounded: but thy servant shall rejoice. Ps. 109:28
- As a bird flying to other places, and a sparrow going here or there: so a curse uttered without cause shall come upon a man. Pr. 26:2
- Accuse not a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, and thou fall. Pr. 30:10
- The father's blessing establisheth the houses of the children: but the mother's curse rooteth up the foundation. Sir. 3:11
- Turn not away thy eyes from the poor for fear of anger: and leave not to them that ask of thee to curse thee behind thy back. Sir. 4:5
- Lest God forget thee in their sight, and thou, by thy daily custom be infatuated and suffer reproach: and wish that thou hadst not been born, and curse the day of thy nativity. Sir. 23:19
- Thou canst no more bind him up. And of a curse there is reconciliation: Sir. 27:23
- And they shall pass by it, they shall fall, and be hungry: and when they shall be hungry, they will be angry, and curse their king, and their God, and look upwards. Isa. 8:21
- Therefore shall a curse devour the earth, and the inhabitants thereof shall sin: and therefore they that dwell therein shall be mad, and few men shall be left. Isa. 24:6
- Woe is me, my mother: why hast thou borne me a man of strife, a man of contention to all the earth? I have not lent on usury, neither hath any man lent to me on usury: yet all curse me. Jer. 15:10
- And I will deliver them up to vexation, and affliction, to all the kingdoms of the earth: to be a reproach, and a byword, and a proverb, and to be a curse in all places, to which I have cast them out. Jer. 24:9
- To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Juda, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof: to make them a desolation, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a curse, as it is at this day. Jer. 25:18
- I will make this house like Silo: and I will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth. Jer. 26:6
- And I will persecute them with the sword, and with famine, and with the pestilence: and I will give them up unto affliction to all the kingdoms of the earth: to be a curse, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach to all the nations to which I have driven them out: Jer. 29:18
- And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Juda, that are in Babylon, saying: The Lord make thee like Sedecias, and like Achab, whom the king of Babylon fried in the fire: Jer. 29:22
- For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: As my anger and my indignation hath been kindled against the inhabitants of Jerusalem: so shall my indignation be kindled against you, when you shall enter into Egypt, and you shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach: and you shall see this place no more. Jer. 42:18
- In that you provoke me to wrath with the works of your hands, by sacrificing to other gods in the land of Egypt, into which you are come to dwell there: and that you should perish, and be a curse, and a reproach to all the nations of the earth? Jer. 44:8
- And I will take the remnant of Juda that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt, and to dwell there; and they shall be all consumed in the land of Egypt: they shall fall by the sword, and by the famine: and they shall be consumed from the least even to the greatest, by the sword, and by the famine shall they die: and they shall be for an execration, and for a wonder, and for a curse, and for a reproach. Jer. 44:12
- So that the Lord could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed: therefore your land is become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day. Jer. 44:22
- For I have sworn by myself, saith the Lord, that Bosra shall become a desolation, and a reproach, and a desert, and a curse: and all her cities shall be everlasting wastes. Jer. 49:13
- And behold we are at this day in our captivity, whereby thou hast scattered us to be a reproach, and a curse, and an offence, according to all the iniquities of our fathers, who departed from thee, O Lord our God. Bar. 3:8
- For neither can they curse kings, nor bless them. Bar. 6:65
- And all Israel have transgressed thy law, and have turned away from hearing thy voice, and the malediction, and the curse, which is written in the book of Moses, the servant of God, is fallen upon us, because we have sinned against him. Dan. 9:11
- And he said to me: This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the earth: for every thief shall be judged as is there written: and every one that sweareth in like manner shall be judged by it. Zach. 5:3
- And it shall come to pass, that as you were a curse among the Gentiles, O house of Juda, and house of Israel: so will I save you, and you shall be a blessing: fear not, let your hands be strengthened. Zach. 8:13
- If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, saith the Lord of hosts: I will send poverty upon you, and will curse your blessings, yea I will curse them, because you have not laid it to heart. Mal. 2:2
- And so they, through my dissimulation, and for a little time of a corruptible life, should be deceived, and hereby I should bring a stain and a curse upon my old age. 2 Ma. 6:25
- For God said: Honour thy father and mother: And: He that shall curse father or mother, let him die the death. Mt. 15:4
- Then he began to curse and to swear that he knew not the man. And immediately the cock crew. Mt. 26:74
- For Moses said: Honour thy father and thy mother. And He that shall curse father or mother, dying let him die. Mk. 7:10
- And Peter remembering, said to him: Rabbi, behold the fig tree which thou didst curse is withered away. Mk. 11:21
- But he began to curse and to swear, saying: I know not this man of whom you speak. Mk. 14:71
- Bless them that curse you and pray for them that calumniate you. Lk. 6:28
- And when day was come, some of the Jews gathered together and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they killed Paul. Acts 23:12
- Who came to the chief priests and the ancients and said: We have bound ourselves under a great curse that we will eat nothing till we have slain Paul. Acts 23:14
- Bless them that persecute you: bless, and curse not. Rom. 12:14
- For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: Cursed is every one that abideth, not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. Gal. 3:10
- Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us (for it is written: Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree). Gal. 3:13
- But that which bringeth forth thorns and briers is reprobate and very near unto a curse: whose end is to be burnt. Heb. 6:8
- By it we bless God and the Father: and by it we curse men who are made after the likeness of God. Jas. 3:9
- And there shall be no curse any more: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it. And his servants shall serve him. Apoc. 22:3