Deuteronomy 28:39 “You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the win…”

Deuteronomy 28:39

You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink of the wine, nor harvest, because worms will eat them.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Thou shalt plant a vineyard, and dresse it, but shalt neither drinke of the wine, nor gather the grapes: for the wormes shall eate it.

Darby Translation

Thou shalt plant and till vineyards, but shalt drink no wine, nor gather [the fruit]; for the worms shall eat it.

Young's Literal Translation

vineyards thou dost plant, and hast laboured, and wine thou dost not drink nor gather, for the worm doth consume it;

Bible in Basic English

You will put in vines and take care of them, but you will get no wine or grapes from them; for they will be food for worms.

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Cross references

“for the worms”

Joel 1:4–7 Joel 2:2–4 Jonah 4:7

Joel 1:4–7 · BSB

What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.

Joel 2:2–4 · BSB

a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.

Jonah 4:7 · BSB

When dawn came the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant so that it withered.

Also

Isaiah 5:10 Isaiah 17:10–11

Isaiah 5:10 · BSB

For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain. ”

Isaiah 17:10–11 · BSB

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines—

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

38You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.

40You will have olive trees throughout your territory but will never anoint yourself with oil, because the olives will drop off.

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