Deuteronomy 28:18
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18 “Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle and the issue of your flock.
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Leviticus 26:26
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26 When I cut off your supply of bread,[a] ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven, and they shall dole out your bread by weight, and though you eat, you shall not be satisfied.(A)
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- 26.26 Heb staff of bread
Habakkuk 3:17
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Trust and Joy in the Midst of Trouble
17 Though the fig tree does not blossom
and no fruit is on the vines;
though the produce of the olive fails
and the fields yield no food;
though the flock is cut off from the fold
and there is no herd in the stalls,(A)
Lamentations 2:20
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20 Look, O Lord, and consider!
To whom have you done this?
Should women eat their offspring,
the children they have borne?
Should priest and prophet be killed
in the sanctuary of the Lord?(A)
Psalm 109:9-15
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9 May his children be orphans
and his wife a widow.(A)
10 May his children wander about and beg;
may they be driven out of[a] the ruins they inhabit.
11 May the creditor seize all that he has;
may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil.(B)
12 May there be no one to do him a kindness
nor anyone to pity his orphaned children.(C)
13 May his posterity be cut off;
may his name be blotted out in the second generation.(D)
14 May the iniquity of his father[b] be remembered before the Lord,
and do not let the sin of his mother be blotted out.(E)
15 Let them be before the Lord continually,
and may his[c] memory be cut off from the earth.(F)
Job 18:16-19
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16 Their roots dry up beneath,
and their branches wither above.(A)
17 Their memory perishes from the earth,
and they have no name in the street.(B)
18 They are thrust from light into darkness
and driven out of the world.
19 They have no offspring or descendant among their people
and no survivor where they used to live.(C)
Deuteronomy 28:4
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4 “Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb, the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your livestock, both the increase of your cattle and the issue of your flock.(A)
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Deuteronomy 5:9
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9 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents to the third and fourth generation of those who reject me(A)
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Leviticus 26:19-20
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19 I will break your proud glory, and I will make your sky like iron and your earth like copper.(A) 20 Your strength shall be spent to no purpose: your land shall not yield its produce, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.(B)
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Luke 23:29-30
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29 For the days are surely coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’ 30 Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’(A)
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Malachi 2:3
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3 I will rebuke your offspring and spread dung on your faces, the dung of your offerings, and I will put you out of my presence.[a]
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- 2.3 Cn Compare Gk Syr: Heb and he shall bear you to it
Hosea 9:11-14
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11 Ephraim’s glory shall fly away like a bird—
no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!(A)
12 Even if they bring up children,
I will bereave them until no one is left.
Woe to them indeed
when I depart from them!(B)
13 Once I saw Ephraim as a young palm planted in a lovely meadow,[a]
but now Ephraim must lead out his children for slaughter.(C)
14 Give them, O Lord—
what will you give?
Give them a miscarrying womb
and dry breasts.
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- 9.13 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Lamentations 2:11-12
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11 My eyes are spent with weeping;
my stomach churns;
my bile is poured out on the ground
because of the destruction of my people,[a]
because infants and babes faint
in the streets of the city.(A)
12 They cry to their mothers,
“Where is bread and wine?”
as they faint like the wounded
in the streets of the city,
as their life is poured out
on their mothers’ bosoms.(B)
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- 2.11 Heb the daughter of my people
Deuteronomy 28:16
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16 “Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.
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