Deuteronomy 28:42

All your trees and the fruit of your land will be the locust's.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.

In Context

41You will have sons and daughters, but they will not be yours; for they will go away prisoners into a strange land.

43The man from a strange land who is living among you will be lifted up higher and higher over you, while you go down lower and lower.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:38You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it.

Amos 4:9I have sent destruction on your fields by burning and disease: the increase of your gardens and your vine-gardens, your fig-trees and your olive-trees, has been food for worms: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 28:16-45

Threatenings. ( b. c. 1451.) 15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: 16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. 17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. 19… Read the whole commentary →

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