Deuteronomy 28:39

You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will neither drink any of the wine, nor even gather in the grapes, for worms will eat them.

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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 take much seed out into the field, but will gather little seed in, for the locusts will consume it.

40You will have olive trees within all your territory, but you will not rub any of the oil on yourself, for your olive trees will drop their fruit.

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Cross References

Job 15:33He will drop his unripe grapes like a grapevine; 1 he will cast off his flowers like the olive tree. 1

Isaiah 17:10For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have ignored the rock of your strength. 1 So you plant pleasant plants, and set out vine branches received from a stranger, 1

Joel 2:2It is a day of darkness and gloom, 1 a day of clouds and thick darkness. 1 Like the dawn that spreads on the mountains, 1 a large and mighty army is approaching. 1 There has never been an army like it, 1 and there never will be again, 1 even after many generations. 1

Habakkuk 3:17Though the fig tree does not bud 2 and there is no produce from the vines; 2 and though the produce of the olive tree disappoints 2 and the fields yield no food; 2 and though the flock is cut off from the fold 2 and there are no cattle in the stalls, this is what I will do. 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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