Deuteronomy 28:39
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“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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“You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“vineyards thou dost plant, and hast laboured, and wine thou dost not drink nor gather, for the worm doth consume it;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Deuteronomy 28:39 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 15:33He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.
- Isaiah 5:10For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”
- Isaiah 17:10For 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—
- Joel 1:4What 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 2:2a 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 4:7When dawn came the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant so that it withered.
- Habakkuk 3:17Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,
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