'Curses' in the Bible

And I will bless those who bless you,And the one who curses you I will curse.And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”

“He who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

‘If there is anyone who curses his father or his mother, he shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother, his bloodguiltiness is upon him.

You shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘If anyone curses his God, then he will bear his sin.

‘The priest shall then write these curses on a scroll, and he shall wash them off into the water of bitterness.

“He couches, he lies down as a lion,And as a lion, who dares rouse him?Blessed is everyone who blesses you,And cursed is everyone who curses you.”

“But it shall come about, if you do not obey the Lord your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes with which I charge you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

“The Lord will send upon you curses, confusion, and rebuke, in all you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken Me.

“So all these curses shall come on you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the Lord your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.

Then the Lord will single him out for adversity from all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant which are written in this book of the law.

The Lord your God will inflict all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.

But the king said, “What have I to do with you, O sons of Zeruiah? If he curses, and if the Lord has told him, ‘Curse David,’ then who shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’”

thus says the Lord, “Behold, I am bringing evil on this place and on its inhabitants, even all the curses written in the book which they have read in the presence of the king of Judah.

For the wicked boasts of his heart’s desire,And the greedy man curses and spurns the Lord.

His mouth is full of curses and deceit and oppression;Under his tongue is mischief and wickedness.

On account of the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips,Let them even be caught in their pride,And on account of curses and lies which they utter.

He who curses his father or his mother,His lamp will go out in time of darkness.

He who gives to the poor will never want,But he who shuts his eyes will have many curses.

There is a kind of man who curses his fatherAnd does not bless his mother.

Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne meAs a man of strife and a man of contention to all the land!I have not lent, nor have men lent money to me,Yet everyone curses me.