CURSE
The punishment pronounced by God as a consequence of the sin of Adam and Eve. The man was not the object of the curse, but rather it fell on the serpent and on the earth. The man should eat in pain the fruit of the ground all the days of his life, and in pain the woman should bear her children (Gen. 3:17).
After the flood, the Lord smelled the sweet odor of Noah’s sacrifice, and said in his heart: “I will no longer curse the earth because of man; for the intent of a man’s heart is evil from his youth” (Gen. 8:21).
A new dispensation of heaven and earth had begun, and God was no longer going to curse it, but was going to act on it based on the pleasant smell of Noah’s offering. The man received encouragement.
The annual seasons would persist as long as the earth remained (Gen. 8:22). God made a covenant with Noah and his descendants, and with every living thing, and as a pledge of this covenant he established his bow in the clouds (Gen. 9:8-17).
The whole creation is subject to vanity, and groans and travails (Rom. 8:20-22). But there is the certainty of a liberation already achieved.
The thorns and thistles were the proofs of the curse (Is. 32:13); But the time is coming when “the cypress will grow instead of the bush, and the myrtle will grow instead of the nettle” (Is. 55:13).
Both the weak and the strong of the animal kingdom will also dwell in happy harmony in the millennium (Isa. 11:6-9). In a more sublime sense, Christ has redeemed believers from Judaism from the curse of the Law, having been made a curse for them, because cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree (cf. Gal. 3:13).