Deuteronomy - 28:19



19 You shall be cursed when you come in, and you shall be cursed when you go out.

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Explanation and meaning of Deuteronomy 28:19.

Differing Translations

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Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
Cursed shalt thou be coming in, and cursed going out.
Cursed shall you be entering, and cursed departing.
Maledictus eris in ingressu, et maledictus in egressu.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in. God here pronounces that all their undertakings should meet with ill success; for going out and coming in signifies their various actions, and the whole course of their life; and this is more clearly expressed in the next verse, where He denounces against them misfortune in all their affairs, in that God would confound and mar whatever they should undertake. The words [1] mhvmh, mehumah, and mgrt, migegnereth, are indeed variously explained. Still the sum comes to this, that God would be against them, so as to discomfit and overthrow all their counsels and labors. Hence we are taught that all men's endeavors are useless and vain, unless they seek for success from God.

Footnotes

1 - mhvmh, "Vexation." -- A V. "Bruising, trampling, destruction." -- Robertson, Clavis Pentateuchi. mgrt, "Rebuke." -- A V. "Reproach," from gr. -- W

Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out. See Gill on Deuteronomy 28:6, Deuteronomy 28:16.

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