Lexicon :: Strong's G685 - ara

“Then you will be free from my oath if you go to my family and they do not give her to you ​— ​you will be free from my oath.’

They replied, “We have clearly seen how the LORD has been with you. We think there should be an oath between two parties ​— ​between us and you. Let us make a covenant with you:

“at this point the priest will make the woman take the oath with the sworn curse, and he is to say to her ​— ​‘May the LORD make you into an object of your people’s cursing and swearing when he makes your womb[fn] shrivel and your belly swell.

“Then the priest is to write these curses on a scroll and wash them off into the bitter water.

“When he makes her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, the water that brings a curse will enter her to cause bitter suffering; her belly will swell, and her womb will shrivel. She will become a curse among her people.

“so that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, which he is making with you today, so that you may enter into his oath

“I am making this covenant and this oath not only with you,

“When someone hears the words of this oath, he may consider himself exempt,[fn] thinking, ‘I will have peace even though I follow my own stubborn heart.’ This will lead to the destruction of the well-watered land as well as the dry land.

“The LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you.

When a man sins against his neighbor

and is forced to take an oath,[fn]

and he comes to take an oath

before your altar in this temple,

If a man sins against his neighbor

and is forced to take an oath[fn]

and he comes to take an oath

before your altar in this temple,

join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath[fn] to follow the law of God given through God’s servant Moses and to obey carefully all the commands, ordinances, and statutes of the LORD our Lord.

Cursing, deceit, and violence fill his mouth;

trouble and malice are under his tongue.

All have turned away;

all alike have become corrupt.

There is no one who does good,

not even one.

For the sin of their mouths and the words of their lips,

let them be caught in their pride.

They utter curses and lies.

A shrewd person conceals knowledge,

but a foolish heart publicizes stupidity.

Like a flitting sparrow or a fluttering swallow,

an undeserved curse goes nowhere.

Therefore a curse has consumed the earth,

and its inhabitants have become guilty;

the earth’s inhabitants have been burned,

and only a few survive.

Indeed, all their tables are covered with vomit;

there is no place without a stench.

“For this is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Just as my anger and fury were poured out on Jerusalem’s residents, so will my fury pour out on you if you go to Egypt. You will become an example for cursing, scorn, execration, and disgrace, and you will never see this place again.’

“The LORD can no longer bear your evil deeds and the detestable acts you have committed, so your land has become a waste, a desolation, and an example for cursing, without inhabitant, as you see today.

“He took one of the royal family and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath. Then he took away the leading men of the land,

“ ‘As I live ​— ​this is the declaration of the Lord GOD ​— ​he will die in Babylon, in the land of the king who put him on the throne, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke.

Cursing, lying, murder, stealing,

and adultery are rampant;

one act of bloodshed follows another.

Then he said to me, “This is the curse that is going out over the whole land, for everyone who is a thief, contrary to what is written on one side, has gone unpunished,[fn] and everyone who swears falsely, contrary to what is written on the other side, has gone unpunished.