Deuteronomy 28:39
you plant vineyards and have labored, but you do not drink wine, nor gather [grapes], for the worm consumes it;
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
38You take much seed out into the field, and you gather little in, for the locust consumes it;
40olives are yours in all your border, but you do not pour out oil, for your olive falls off.
Cross References
Job 15:33He shakes off his unripe fruit as a vine, || And casts off his blossom as an olive.
Isaiah 17:10Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, || And have not remembered the Rock of your strength, || Therefore you plant plants of pleasantness, || And sow it with a strange shoot,
Joel 2:2A day of darkness and thick darkness, || A day of cloud and thick darkness, || As darkness spread on the mountains, || A people numerous and mighty, || Like there has not been from of old, || And after it there is not again—Until the years of generation and generation.
Habakkuk 3:17Though the fig tree does not flourish, || And there is no produce among vines, || The work of the olive has failed, || And fields have not yielded food, || The flock has been cut off from the fold, || And there is no herd in the stalls,
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 →