24 He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse(A) on them in the name(B) of the Lord. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.

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Then Saul, who was also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit,(A) looked straight at Elymas and said, 10 “You are a child of the devil(B) and an enemy of everything that is right! You are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery. Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the Lord?(C) 11 Now the hand of the Lord is against you.(D) You are going to be blind for a time, not even able to see the light of the sun.”(E)

Immediately mist and darkness came over him, and he groped about, seeking someone to lead him by the hand.

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Peter said to her, “How could you conspire to test the Spirit of the Lord?(A) Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out also.”

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When Ananias heard this, he fell down and died.(A) And great fear(B) seized all who heard what had happened.

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17 “Therefore this is what the Lord says:

“‘Your wife will become a prostitute(A) in the city,
    and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword.
Your land will be measured and divided up,
    and you yourself will die in a pagan[a] country.
And Israel will surely go into exile,(B)
    away from their native land.(C)’”

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 7:17 Hebrew an unclean

20 Peter answered: “May your money perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money!(A)

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21 Peter remembered and said to Jesus, “Rabbi,(A) look! The fig tree you cursed has withered!”

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14 Then he said to the tree, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard him say it.

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Like a bear robbed of her cubs,(A)
    I will attack them and rip them open;
like a lion(B) I will devour them—
    a wild animal will tear them apart.(C)

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65 Put a veil over their hearts,(A)
    and may your curse be on them!

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21 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says about Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying lies(A) to you in my name: “I will deliver them into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will put them to death before your very eyes. 22 Because of them, all the exiles from Judah who are in Babylon will use this curse: ‘May the Lord treat you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon burned(B) in the fire.’ 23 For they have done outrageous things in Israel; they have committed adultery(C) with their neighbors’ wives, and in my name they have uttered lies—which I did not authorize. I know(D) it and am a witness(E) to it,” declares the Lord.

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16 Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to remove you from the face of the earth.(A) This very year you are going to die,(B) because you have preached rebellion(C) against the Lord.’”

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25 I rebuked them and called curses down on them. I beat some of the men and pulled out their hair. I made them take an oath(A) in God’s name and said: “You are not to give your daughters in marriage to their sons, nor are you to take their daughters in marriage for your sons or for yourselves.(B) 26 Was it not because of marriages like these that Solomon king of Israel sinned? Among the many nations there was no king like him.(C) He was loved by his God,(D) and God made him king over all Israel, but even he was led into sin by foreign women.(E) 27 Must we hear now that you too are doing all this terrible wickedness and are being unfaithful to our God by marrying(F) foreign women?”

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10 Elijah answered the captain, “If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!” Then fire(A) fell from heaven and consumed the captain and his men.

11 At this the king sent to Elijah another captain with his fifty men. The captain said to him, “Man of God, this is what the king says, ‘Come down at once!’”

12 “If I am a man of God,” Elijah replied, “may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!” Then the fire of God fell from heaven and consumed him and his fifty men.

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36 So the prophet said, “Because you have not obeyed the Lord, as soon as you leave me a lion(A) will kill you.” And after the man went away, a lion found him and killed him.

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17 Jehu will put to death any who escape the sword of Hazael,(A) and Elisha will put to death any who escape the sword of Jehu.(B)

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24 As he went on his way, a lion(A) met him on the road and killed him, and his body was left lying on the road, with both the donkey and the lion standing beside it.

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You know your father and his men; they are fighters, and as fierce as a wild bear robbed of her cubs.(A) Besides, your father is an experienced fighter;(B) he will not spend the night with the troops.

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57 God also made the people of Shechem pay for all their wickedness.(A) The curse of Jotham(B) son of Jerub-Baal came on them.

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Curses for Disobedience

15 However, if you do not obey(A) the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today,(B) all these curses will come on you and overtake you:(C)

16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.(D)

17 Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.(E)

18 The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.(F)

19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.(G)

20 The Lord will send on you curses,(H) confusion and rebuke(I) in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin(J) because of the evil(K) you have done in forsaking him.[a] 21 The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess.(L) 22 The Lord will strike you with wasting disease,(M) with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought,(N) with blight(O) and mildew, which will plague(P) you until you perish.(Q) 23 The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron.(R) 24 The Lord will turn the rain(S) of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.

25 The Lord will cause you to be defeated(T) before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven,(U) and you will become a thing of horror(V) to all the kingdoms on earth.(W) 26 Your carcasses will be food for all the birds(X) and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away.(Y)

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:20 Hebrew me

You shall not bow down to them or worship(A) them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God,(B) punishing the children for the sin of the parents(C) to the third and fourth generation(D) of those who hate me,

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And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, once your obedience is complete.(A)

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15 Like a roaring lion or a charging bear
    is a wicked ruler over a helpless people.

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12 Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs
    than a fool bent on folly.(A)

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