Deuteronomy 28:39

You will plant grapevines and take care of them, but you will not pick any grapes to make wine, because worms will eat the vines.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.

In Context

38You will plant plenty of seeds in your fields, but you will reap only a small harvest, because locusts will eat the crops.

40Olive trees will grow everywhere in your land, but you will not get any olive oil to rub on your skin because the olives will drop on the ground before they are ripe.

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Cross References

Job 15:33They will be like [SIM] vines whose grapes fall off before they are ripe, like olive trees whose blossoms fall off before they produce any fruit.

Isaiah 17:10That will happen because you have stopped worshiping God who is like [MET] a huge rock under which you can be safe. You have forgotten that he is the one who can hide/protect you. So, now you plant very nice grapevines and even plant very expensive ones that come from other countries.

Joel 2:2That will be a very dark and gloomy day; there will be black clouds and it will be very dark. A huge swarm of locusts has covered the mountains like [SIM] a black cloud. Nothing like this has ever happened before, and nothing like this will ever happen again.

Habakkuk 3:17Therefore, even if there are no blossoms on the fig trees, and there are no grapes on the grapevines, and even if there are no olives growing on the olive trees, and there are no crops in the fields, and even if the flocks of sheep and goats die in the fields, and there are no cattle in the stalls/barns,

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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