Deuteronomy 28:39
Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.
Deuteronomy 28:39 in other translations
| BSB | You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them. |
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| WEB | You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink of the wine, nor harvest, because worms will eat them. |
| ASV | 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. |
| YLT | vineyards thou dost plant, and hast laboured, and wine thou dost not drink nor gather, for the worm doth consume it; |
| DARBY | Thou shalt plant and till vineyards, but shalt drink no wine, nor gather the fruit; for the worms shall eat it. |
| BBE | 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. |
| Webster | Thou shalt plant vineyards and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes: for the worm shall eat them. |
What does Deuteronomy 28:39 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 28:15-44
If we do not keep God's commandments, we not only come short of the blessing promised, but we lay ourselves under the curse, which includes all misery, as the blessing all happiness. Observe the justice of this curse. It is not a curse causeless, or for some light cause. The extent and power of this curse. Wherever the sinner goes, the curse of God follows; wherever he is, it rests upon him. Whatever he has is under…
Deuteronomy 28:39 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Deuteronomy 28:39
- Isaiah 17:10-11
Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips: In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
- Isaiah 5:10
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
- Joel 1:4-7
That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten. Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion. He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
- Jonah 4:7
But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
- Joel 2:2-4
A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run.
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Context
- Deuteronomy 28:38
Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.
- Deuteronomy 28:39
Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.
- Deuteronomy 28:40
Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.
Deuteronomy 28:39 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Plantarás viñas y labrarás, mas no beberás vino, ni cogerás uvas; porque el gusano las comerá. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Tu planteras des vignes et tu les cultiveras, mais tu n’en boiras pas de vin et tu n’en recueilleras rien; car le ver les mangera. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Weinberge wirst du pflanzen und bauen; aber Wein wirst du weder trinken noch einsammeln, denn der Wurm wird sie fressen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Vineam plantabis, et fodies: et vinum non bibes, nec colliges ex ea quippiam: quoniam vastabitur vermibus. |