Deuteronomy 28:3
Good News Translation
"The LORD will bless your towns and your fields.

New Revised Standard Version
Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD will make your businesses and your farms successful.

New American Bible
May you be blessed in the city, and blessed in the country!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed in the field.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed in the field.

in the city

Psalm 107:36,37 And hath placed there the hungry; and they made a city for their habitation. . . .

Psalm 128:1-5 A gradual canticle. Blessed are all they that fear the Lord: that walk in his ways. . . .

Psalm 144:12-15 Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple: . . .

Isaiah 65:21-23 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruits of them. . . .

Zechariah 8:3-5 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I am returned to Sion, and I will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called The city of truth, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, The sanctified mountain. . . .

in the field

Genesis 26:12 And Isaac sowed in that land, and he found that same year a hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.

Genesis 39:5 And the Lord blessed the house of the Egyptian for Joseph's sake, and multiplied all his substance, both at home and in the fields.

Amos 9:13,14 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all nations, because my name is invoked upon them: saith the Lord that doth these things. . . .

Haggai 2:19 Is the seed as yet sprung up? or hath the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree as yet flourished? from this day I will bless you.

Malachi 3:10,11 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in my house, and try me in this, saith the Lord: if I open not unto you the flood-gates of heaven, and pour you out a blessing even to abundance. . . .

Context
The Blessings of Obedience
2And all these blessings shall come upon thee and overtake thee: yet so if thou hear his precepts. 3Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed in the field.4Blessed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the droves of thy herds, and the folds of thy sheep.…
Cross References
Genesis 39:5
And the Lord blessed the house of the Egyptian for Joseph's sake, and multiplied all his substance, both at home and in the fields.

Numbers 6:24
The Lord bless thee, and keep thee.

Deuteronomy 28:4
Blessed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the droves of thy herds, and the folds of thy sheep.

Deuteronomy 28:16
Cursed shalt thou be in the city, cursed in the field.

2 Chronicles 34:19
And when he had heard the words of the law, he rent his garments:

Isaiah 65:23
My elect shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth in trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their posterity with them.

Deuteronomy 28:2
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