Curses and Blessings Are From The Lord - Proverbs 3:33
Proverbs 3:33 The LORD puts a curse on the homes of the wicked, but blesses the homes of the righteous.
I. He Puts A Curse On The Wicked
II. He Puts Blessings On The Righteous
I. He Puts A Curse On The Wicked
; ; Deu_7:26, , Deu_29:19-29; Jos_6:18, Jos_7:13; Psa_37:22; Zec_5:3-4; Mal_2:2
Proverbs 21:12 God, the righteous one, knows what goes on in the homes of the wicked, and he will bring the wicked down to ruin.
List of Curses for your reference but I don't want to discuss them.
Leviticus 26:14 The LORD said, "If you will not obey my commands, you will be punished.
Leviticus 26:15 If you refuse to obey my laws and commands and break the covenant I have made with you,
Leviticus 26:16 I will punish you. I will bring disaster on you---incurable diseases and fevers that will make you blind and cause your life to waste away. You will plant your crops, but it will do you no good, because your enemies will conquer you and eat what you have grown.
Leviticus 26:17 I will turn against you, so that you will be defeated, and those who hate you will rule over you; you will be so terrified that you will run when no one is chasing you.
Leviticus 26:18 "If even after all of this you still do not obey me, I will increase your punishment seven times.
Leviticus 26:19 I will break your stubborn pride; there will be no rain, and your land will be dry and as hard as iron.
Leviticus 26:20 All your hard work will do you no good, because your land will not produce crops and the trees will not bear fruit.
Leviticus 26:21 "If you still continue to resist me and refuse to obey me, I will again increase your punishment seven times.
Leviticus 26:22 I will send dangerous animals among you, and they will kill your children, destroy your livestock, and leave so few of you that your roads will be deserted.
Leviticus 26:23 "If after all of this punishment you still do not listen to me, but continue to defy me,
Leviticus 26:24 then I will turn on you and punish you seven times harder than before.
Leviticus 26:25 I will bring war on you to punish you for breaking our covenant, and if you gather in your cities for safety, I will send incurable diseases among you, and you will be forced to surrender to your enemies.
Leviticus 26:26 I will cut off your food supply, so that ten women will need only one oven to bake all the bread they have. They will ration it out, and when you have eaten it all, you will still be hungry.
Leviticus 26:27 "If after all of this you still continue to defy me and refuse to obey me,
Leviticus 26:28 then in my anger I will turn on you and again make your punishment seven times worse than before.
Leviticus 26:29 Your hunger will be so great that you will eat your own children.
Leviticus 26:30 I will destroy your places of worship on the hills, tear down your incense altars, and throw your dead bodies on your fallen idols. In utter disgust
Leviticus 26:31 I will turn your cities into ruins, destroy your places of worship, and refuse to accept your sacrifices.
Leviticus 26:32 I will destroy your land so completely that the enemies who occupy it will be shocked at the destruction.
Leviticus 26:33 I will bring war on you and scatter you in foreign lands. Your land will be deserted, and your cities left in ruins.
Leviticus 26:34 Then the land will enjoy the years of complete rest that you would not give it; it will lie abandoned and get its rest while you are in exile in the land of your enemies.
Leviticus 26:35 (SEE 26:34)
Leviticus 26:36 "I will make those of you who are in exile so terrified that the sound of a leaf blowing in the wind will make you run. You will run as if you were being pursued in battle, and you will fall when there is no enemy near you.
Leviticus 26:37 You will stumble over one another when no one is chasing you, and you will be unable to fight against any enemy.
Leviticus 26:38 You will die in exile, swallowed up by the land of your enemies.
Leviticus 26:39 The few of you who survive in the land of your enemies will waste away because of your own sin and the sin of your ancestors.
Leviticus 26:40 "But your descendants will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors, who resisted me and rebelled against me,
Leviticus 26:41 and caused me to turn against them and send them into exile in the land of their enemies. At last, when your descendants are humbled and they have paid the penalty for their sin and rebellion,
Leviticus 26:42 I will remember my covenant with Jacob and with Isaac and with Abraham, and I will renew my promise to give my people the land.
Leviticus 26:43 First, however, the land must be rid of its people, so that it can enjoy its complete rest, and they must pay the full penalty for having rejected my laws and my commands.
Leviticus 26:44 But even then, when they are still in the land of their enemies, I will not completely abandon them or destroy them. That would put an end to my covenant with them, and I am the LORD their God.
Leviticus 26:45 I will renew the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I showed all the nations my power by bringing my people out of Egypt, in order that I, the LORD, might be their God."
Leviticus 26:46 All these are the laws and commands that the LORD gave to Moses on Mount Sinai for the people of Israel.
Deuteronomy 28:15 "But if you disobey the LORD your God and do not faithfully keep all his commands and laws that I am giving you today, all these evil things will happen to you:
Deuteronomy 28:16 "The LORD will curse your towns and your fields.
Deuteronomy 28:17 "The LORD will curse your grain crops and the food you prepare from them.
Deuteronomy 28:18 "The LORD will curse you by giving you only a few children, poor crops, and few cattle and sheep.
Deuteronomy 28:19 "The LORD will curse everything you do.
Deuteronomy 28:20 "If you do evil and reject the LORD, he will bring on you disaster, confusion, and trouble in everything you do, until you are quickly and completely destroyed.
Deuteronomy 28:21 He will send disease after disease on you until there is not one of you left in the land that you are about to occupy.
Deuteronomy 28:22 The LORD will strike you with infectious diseases, with swelling and fever; he will send drought and scorching winds to destroy your crops. These disasters will be with you until you die.
Deuteronomy 28:23 No rain will fall, and your ground will become as hard as iron.
Deuteronomy 28:24 Instead of rain, the LORD will send down duststorms and sandstorms until you are destroyed.
Deuteronomy 28:25 "The LORD will give your enemies victory over you. You will attack them from one direction, but you will run from them in all directions, and all the people on earth will be terrified when they see what happens to you.
Deuteronomy 28:26 When you die, birds and wild animals will come and eat your bodies, and there will be no one to scare them off.
Deuteronomy 28:27 The LORD will send boils on you, as he did on the Egyptians. He will make your bodies break out with sores. You will be covered with scabs, and you will itch, but there will be no cure.
Deuteronomy 28:28 The LORD will make you lose your mind; he will strike you with blindness and confusion.
Deuteronomy 28:29 You will grope about in broad daylight like someone blind, and you will not be able to find your way. You will not prosper in anything you do. You will be constantly oppressed and robbed, and there will be no one to help you.
Deuteronomy 28:30 "You will be engaged to a young woman---but someone else will marry her. You will build a house---but never live in it. You will plant a vineyard---but never eat its grapes.
Deuteronomy 28:31 Your cattle will be butchered before your very eyes, but you will not eat any of the meat. Your donkeys will be dragged away while you look on, and they will not be given back to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and there will be no one to help you.
Deuteronomy 28:32 Your sons and daughters will be given as slaves to foreigners while you look on. Every day you will strain your eyes, looking in vain for your children to return.
Deuteronomy 28:33 A foreign nation will take all the crops that you have worked so hard to grow, while you receive nothing but constant oppression and harsh treatment.
Deuteronomy 28:34 Your sufferings will make you lose your mind.
Deuteronomy 28:35 The LORD will cover your legs with incurable, painful sores; boils will cover you from head to foot.
Deuteronomy 28:36 "The LORD will take you and your king away to a foreign land, where neither you nor your ancestors ever lived before; there you will serve gods made of wood and stone.
Deuteronomy 28:37 In the countries to which the LORD will scatter you, the people will be shocked at what has happened to you; they will make fun of you and ridicule you.
Deuteronomy 28:38 "You will plant plenty of seed, but reap only a small harvest, because the locusts will eat your crops.
Deuteronomy 28:39 You will plant vineyards and take care of them, but you will not gather their grapes or drink wine from them, because worms will eat the vines.
Deuteronomy 28:40 Olive trees will grow everywhere in your land, but you will not have any olive oil, because the olives will drop off.
Deuteronomy 28:41 You will have sons and daughters, but you will lose them, because they will be taken away as prisoners of war.
Deuteronomy 28:42 All your trees and crops will be devoured by insects.
Deuteronomy 28:43 "Foreigners who live in your land will gain more and more power, while you gradually lose yours.
Deuteronomy 28:44 They will have money to lend you, but you will have none to lend them. In the end they will be your rulers.
Deuteronomy 28:45 "All these disasters will come on you, and they will be with you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the LORD your God and keep all the laws that he gave you.
Deuteronomy 28:46 They will be the evidence of God's judgment on you and your descendants forever.
Deuteronomy 28:47 The LORD blessed you in every way, but you would not serve him with glad and joyful hearts.
Deuteronomy 28:48 So then, you will serve the enemies that the LORD is going to send against you. You will be hungry, thirsty, and naked---in need of everything. The LORD will oppress you harshly until you are destroyed.
Deuteronomy 28:49 The LORD will bring against you a nation from the ends of the earth, a nation whose language you do not know. They will swoop down on you like an eagle.
Deuteronomy 28:50 They will be ruthless and show no mercy to anyone, young or old.
Deuteronomy 28:51 They will eat your livestock and your crops, and you will starve to death. They will not leave you any grain, wine, olive oil, cattle, or sheep; and you will die.
Deuteronomy 28:52 They will attack every town in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and the high, fortified walls in which you trust will fall.
Deuteronomy 28:53 "When your enemies are besieging your towns, you will become so desperate for food that you will even eat the children that the LORD your God has given you.
Deuteronomy 28:54 Even the most refined man of noble birth will become so desperate during the siege that he will eat some of his own children because he has no other food. He will not even give any to his brother or to the wife he loves or to any of his children who are left.
Deuteronomy 28:55 (SEE 28:54)
Deuteronomy 28:56 Even the most refined woman of noble birth, so rich that she has never had to walk anywhere, will behave in the same way. When the enemy besieges her town, she will become so desperate for food that she will secretly eat her newborn child and the afterbirth as well. She will not share them with the husband she loves or with any of her children.
Deuteronomy 28:57 (SEE 28:56)
Deuteronomy 28:58 "If you do not obey faithfully all of God's teachings that are written in this book and if you do not honor the wonderful and awesome name of the LORD your God,
Deuteronomy 28:59 he will send on you and on your descendants incurable diseases and horrible epidemics that can never be stopped.
Deuteronomy 28:60 He will bring on you once again all the dreadful diseases you experienced in Egypt, and you will never recover.
Deuteronomy 28:61 He will also send all kinds of diseases and epidemics that are not mentioned in this book of God's laws and teachings, and you will be destroyed.
Deuteronomy 28:62 Although you become as numerous as the stars in the sky, only a few of you will survive, because you did not obey the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 28:63 Just as the LORD took delight in making you prosper and in making you increase in number, so he will take delight in destroying you and in bringing ruin on you. You will be uprooted from the land that you are about to occupy.
Deuteronomy 28:64 "The LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve gods made of wood and stone, gods that neither you nor your ancestors have ever worshiped before.
Deuteronomy 28:65 You will find no peace anywhere, no place to call your own; the LORD will overwhelm you with anxiety, hopelessness, and despair.
Deuteronomy 28:66 Your life will always be in danger. Day and night you will be filled with terror, and you will live in constant fear of death.
Deuteronomy 28:67 Your hearts will pound with fear at everything you see. Every morning you will wish for evening; every evening you will wish for morning.
Deuteronomy 28:68 The LORD will send you back to Egypt in ships, even though he said that you would never have to go there again. There you will try to sell yourselves to your enemies as slaves, but no one will want to buy you."
II. He Puts Blessings On The Righteous
Blessings are more fun to discuss than blessings, you can have these blessings if you accept the Lord Jesus Christ in your hearts and He will (thru His Blood) make you righteous.
1 John 1:9 But if we confess our sins to God, he will keep his promise and do what is right: he will forgive us our sins and purify us from all our wrongdoing.
List of the Blessings:
These blessings will only come to you if you obey, these are the blessings of obedience to the Lord.
1. You will be bless wherever you are, in towns or in the fields. (Deuteronomy 28:3)
2. He will give you many children, abundant crops, with many cattle and sheep (Deuteronomy 28:4)
3. He will bless your grain crops and food (Deuteronomy 28:5)
4. He will bless everything you do. (Deuteronomy 28:6)
5. The Lord will defeat your enemies (Deuteronomy 28:7)
6. He will bless your work and your businesses (Deuteronomy 28:8)
7. He will make you His own people (Deuteronomy 28:9)
8. Those who want to hurt you and hates you will be afraid of you (Deuteronomy 28:10 )
9. The Lord will give you abundance in children, cattle, crops (Deuteronomy 28:11)
10. You will lend but will not borrow (Deuteronomy 28:12)
11. The Lord will make you the leader (Deuteronomy 28:13)
Deuteronomy 28:2 Obey the LORD your God and all these blessings will be yours:
Deuteronomy 28:3 "The LORD will bless your towns and your fields.
Deuteronomy 28:4 "The LORD will bless you with many children, with abundant crops, and with many cattle and sheep.
Deuteronomy 28:5 "The LORD will bless your grain crops and the food you prepare from them.
Deuteronomy 28:6 "The LORD will bless everything you do.
Deuteronomy 28:7 "The LORD will defeat your enemies when they attack you. They will attack from one direction, but they will run from you in all directions.
Deuteronomy 28:8 "The LORD your God will bless your work and fill your barns with grain. He will bless you in the land that he is giving you.
Deuteronomy 28:9 "If you obey the LORD your God and do everything he commands, he will make you his own people, as he has promised.
Deuteronomy 28:10 Then all the peoples on earth will see that the LORD has chosen you to be his own people, and they will be afraid of you.
Deuteronomy 28:11 The LORD will give you many children, many cattle, and abundant crops in the land that he promised your ancestors to give you.
Deuteronomy 28:12 He will send rain in season from his rich storehouse in the sky and bless all your work, so that you will lend to many nations, but you will not have to borrow from any.
Deuteronomy 28:13 The LORD your God will make you the leader among the nations and not a follower; you will always prosper and never fail if you obey faithfully all his commands that I am giving you today.
Deuteronomy 28:14 But you must never disobey them in any way, or worship and serve other gods.
