Deuteronomy 28:42

Rot will consume all the trees, as well as the fruits of your land.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

41You will conceive sons and daughters, and you will not enjoy them. For they will be led into captivity.

43The new arrival who lives with you in the land will ascend over you, and be higher. But you will descend, and be lower.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:38You will sow much seed upon the ground, but you will harvest little. For the locusts will devour everything.

Amos 4:9I struck you with a burning wind and with yellowing; the caterpillar has consumed your many gardens and your vineyards, your olive groves and your fig groves. And you did not return 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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