Deuteronomy 28:30

You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will seize her and rape her. You will build a house but not live in it; you will plant a vineyard but not enjoy its fruit.

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Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.

In Context

29You will grope about at noonday like the blind grope in the darkness, and you will not prosper in your ways; you will be always oppressed and robbed, and there will be no one to save you.

31Your ox will be slain before your eyes, but you will not eat its meat; your donkey will be forcibly taken away from before you and will not be restored to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to aid you.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 20:7What man is there who is engaged to marry a woman but has not yet married her? Let him go home so that he does not die in battle and another man marries her.'

Job 20:18He will give back the fruit of his labor and will not be able to eat it; 1 he will not enjoy the wealth earned by his commerce. 1

Isaiah 5:9Yahweh of hosts told me, 1 many houses will be empty, even great and impressive ones, without any inhabitant. 1

Isaiah 65:21They will build houses and inhabit them, and they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 1

Jeremiah 8:10So I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who will possess them, 1 because from the least to the greatest, all of them are greedy for dishonest gain! From the prophet to the priest, all of them practice deceit. 1

Lamentations 5:2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers; 1 our houses to foreigners. 1

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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