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Proverbs 3:33

The curse of the LORD is on the house of the wicked, But He blesses the home of the just.

Sin, temptation and holinessKingdom, blessing and righteousness

Key words: yᵊhōvâ bāraḵ mᵊ'ērâ ṣadîq rāšāʿ

Original words

EnglishOriginal wordRoot#
The cursemᵊ'ēraṯ מְאֵרַתmᵊ'ērâ1
of the LORDyᵊhvâ יְהוָהyᵊhōvâ9
in the housebᵊḇêṯ בְּבֵיתbayiṯ1
of the wickedrāšāʿ רָשָׁעrāšāʿ4
butûnvê וּנְוֵהnāvê2
he blessethyᵊḇārēḵ יְבָרֵךְbāraḵ1
the habitationûnvê וּנְוֵהnāvê2
of the justṣadîqîm צַדִּיקִיםṣadîq2

Memory passages these point to

P-64 Psalm 1:1-6

Cross-references 15

Passages are shown in the NKJV.

curse of the LORD [is] in the house of the wicked 10
  • Proverbs 21:12

    12The righteous God wisely considers the house of the wicked, Overthrowing the wicked for their wickedness.

  • Leviticus 26:14-20

    14"But if you do not obey Me, and do not observe all these commandments, 15and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant, 16I also will do this to you: I will even appoint terror over you, wasting disease and fever which shall consume the eyes and cause sorrow of heart. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17I will set My face against you, and you shall be defeated by your enemies. 1 Those who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you. 18"And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. 19I will break the pride of your power; I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. 20And your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.

  • Deuteronomy 7:26

    26Nor shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you be doomed to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest it and utterly abhor it, for it is an accursed thing.

  • Deuteronomy 28:15-21

    15"But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: 16"Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country. 17"Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. 18"Cursed shall be the fruit of your body and the produce of your land, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks. 19"Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out. 20"The LORD will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the wickedness of your doings in which you have forsaken Me. 21The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has consumed you from the land which you are going to possess.

  • Deuteronomy 29:19-29

    19and so it may not happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, "I shall have peace, even though I follow the dictates of my heart'--as though the drunkard could be included with the sober. 20"The LORD would not spare him; for then the anger of the LORD and His jealousy would burn against that man, and every curse that is written in this book would settle on him, and the LORD would blot out his name from under heaven. 21And the LORD would separate him from all the tribes of Israel for adversity, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this Book of the Law, 22so that the coming generation of your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, would say, when they see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses which the LORD has laid on it: 23"The whole land is brimstone, salt, and burning; it is not sown, nor does it bear, nor does any grass grow there, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His anger and His wrath.' 24All nations would say, "Why has the LORD done so to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?' 25Then people would say: "Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt; 26for they went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they did not know and that He had not given to them. 27Then the anger of the LORD was aroused against this land, to bring on it every curse that is written in this book. 28And the LORD uprooted them from their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.' 29"The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

  • Joshua 6:18

    18And you, by all means abstain from the accursed things, lest you become accursed when you take of the accursed things, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.

  • Joshua 7:13

    13Get up, sanctify the people, and say, "Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, because thus says the LORD God of Israel: "There is an accursed thing in your midst, O Israel; you cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the accursed thing from among you."

  • Psalms 37:22

    22For those blessed by Him shall inherit the earth, But those cursed by Him shall be cut off.

  • Zechariah 5:3-4

    3Then he said to me, "This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole earth: "Every thief shall be expelled,' according to this side of the scroll; and, "Every perjurer shall be expelled,' according to that side of it." 4"I will send out the curse," says the LORD of hosts; "It shall enter the house of the thief And the house of the one who swears falsely by My name. It shall remain in the midst of his house And consume it, with its timber and stones."

  • Malachi 2:2

    2If you will not hear, And if you will not take it to heart, To give glory to My name," Says the LORD of hosts, "I will send a curse upon you, And I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have cursed them already, Because you do not take it to heart.

he blesseth the habitation of the just 5
  • Deuteronomy 28:2-8

    2And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the LORD your God: 3"Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country. 4"Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, the produce of your ground and the increase of your herds, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks. 5"Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. 6"Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out. 7"The LORD will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways. 8"The LORD will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand, and He will bless you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

  • 2 Samuel 6:11

    11The ark of the LORD remained in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite three months. And the LORD blessed Obed-Edom and all his household.

  • Job 8:6-7

    6If you were pure and upright, Surely now He would awake for you, And prosper your rightful dwelling place. 7Though your beginning was small, Yet your latter end would increase abundantly.

  • Psalms 1:3 P-64 Psalm 1:1-6

    3He shall be like a tree Planted by the rivers of water, That brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also shall not wither; And whatever he does shall prosper.

  • Psalms 91:10

    10No evil shall befall you, Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling;

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