Your fruit baskets and breadboards will be cursed.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.
- KJV Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
- BSB Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed.
- NKJV “Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
- NASB “Cursed will be your basket and your kneading bowl.
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Quick answer
The basket and kneading trough, once blessed, will be cursed, signaling want and hunger.
Overview
The very tools of daily provision now become marks of scarcity. This reversal of verse 5 shows how disobedience strips away God's everyday mercies. It warns that turning from God endangers even the most basic necessities.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Hag 1:6You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.”
- Deut 28:5Your basket and your kneading trough shall be blessed.
- Luke 16:25“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.
- Prov 1:32For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.
- Mal 2:2If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name,” says Yahweh of Armies, “then will I send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.
- Ps 69:22Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.
- Zech 5:3–4Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side.
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Moses promised a Prophet like himself to whom Israel must listen (18:15); Jesus is that Prophet, the one who keeps the covenant we broke and becomes the curse for us by hanging on a tree (Gal 3:13).
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