Deuteronomy 28:51
in Deuteronomy 28They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
and shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, until thou be destroyed; that also shall not leave thee grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of thy cattle, or the young of thy flock, until they have caused thee to perish.
KJV
And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.
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This verse in Deuteronomy 28
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far
on Deuteronomy 28:49-52
The nation from far comes as swift as the eagle flieth and speaks a tongue thou shalt not understand, and Jeremiah 5:15 and Habakkuk 1:6-8 use both figures of Babylon. The text names no nation, and readers have applied it to Assyria, to Babylon and to Rome according to which siege they had in view. Verse 52 brings down the walls wherein thou trustedst and repeats in all thy gates twice in one verse, which leaves no city standing outside the sentence.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle,....
The blessings are here put before the curses, to intimate, 1. That God is slow to anger, but swift to show mercy: he has said it, and sworn, that he would much rather we would obey and live than sin and die. It is his delight to bless.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, &c.--According to the Jewish historian, every district of the country through which they passed was strewn with the wrecks of their devastation.
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The words behind it
21 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְ֠אָכַל | veakhal | and it will devour | H398 → | 810 times |
| פְּרִ֨י | peri | [the] fruit of | H6529 → | 119 times |
| בְהֶמְתְּךָ֥ | vehemtekha | livestock your | H929 → | 190 times |
| וּפְרִֽי־ | uferi- | and [the] fruit of | H6529 → | 119 times |
| אַדְמָתְךָ֮ | ʾadmatekha | ground your | H127 → | 225 times |
| עַ֣ד | ʾad | until | H5704 → | 1261 times |
| הִשָּֽׁמְדָךְ֒ | hishamedokh | being destroyed you | H8045 → | 90 times |
| אֲשֶׁ֨ר | ʾasher | which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| לֹֽא־ | lo'- | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| יַשְׁאִ֜יר | yashir | it will leave | H7604 → | 133 times |
| לְךָ֗ | lekha | to <the> you | ||
| דָּגָן֙ | dagan | grain | H1715 → | 40 times |
| תִּיר֣וֹשׁ | tiroosh | new wine | H8492 → | 38 times |
| וְיִצְהָ֔ר | veyitzhar | and fresh oil | H3323 → | 23 times |
| שְׁגַ֥ר | shegar | [the] young of | H7698 → | 5 times |
| אֲלָפֶ֖יךָ | ʾalafeikha | cattle<s> your | H504 → | 7 times |
| וְעַשְׁתְּרֹ֣ת | veashterot | and [the] young ones of | H6251 → | 4 times |
| צֹאנֶ֑ךָ | tzonekha | sheep your | H6629 → | 274 times |
| עַ֥ד | ʾad | until | H5704 → | 1261 times |
| הַאֲבִיד֖וֹ | haavido | destroys it | H6 → | 184 times |
| אֹתָֽךְ׃ | ʾotakh | <obj.> you | H853 → | 10935 times |
וְ֠אָכַלand it will devour
veakhalH398 →810 times
פְּרִ֨י[the] fruit of
periH6529 →119 times
בְהֶמְתְּךָ֥livestock your
vehemtekhaH929 →190 times
וּפְרִֽי־and [the] fruit of
uferi-H6529 →119 times
אַדְמָתְךָ֮ground your
ʾadmatekhaH127 →225 times
עַ֣דuntil
ʾadH5704 →1261 times
הִשָּֽׁמְדָךְ֒being destroyed you
hishamedokhH8045 →90 times
אֲשֶׁ֨רwhich
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
לֹֽא־not
lo'-H3808 →5168 times
יַשְׁאִ֜ירit will leave
yashirH7604 →133 times
לְךָ֗to <the> you
lekha
דָּגָן֙grain
daganH1715 →40 times
תִּיר֣וֹשׁnew wine
tirooshH8492 →38 times
וְיִצְהָ֔רand fresh oil
veyitzharH3323 →23 times
שְׁגַ֥ר[the] young of
shegarH7698 →5 times
אֲלָפֶ֖יךָcattle<s> your
ʾalafeikhaH504 →7 times
וְעַשְׁתְּרֹ֣תand [the] young ones of
veashterotH6251 →4 times
צֹאנֶ֑ךָsheep your
tzonekhaH6629 →274 times
עַ֥דuntil
ʾadH5704 →1261 times
הַאֲבִיד֖וֹdestroys it
haavidoH6 →184 times
אֹתָֽךְ׃<obj.> you
ʾotakhH853 →10935 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Isaiah 62:8The LORD has sworn by His right hand and by His mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain to your enemies for food, nor will foreigners drink the new wine for which…
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 28:33
A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Isaiah 65:21–23
They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
- Judges 6:3–6
Whenever the Israelites would plant their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,
- Deuteronomy 28:31
Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your…
- Ezekiel 20:5
and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: On the day I chose Israel, I swore an oath to the descendants of the house of Jacob and made Myself known to…
- Deuteronomy 28:33
Through
Leviticus 26:26When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.
it leads to
- Micah 6:14
You will eat but not be satisfied, and your hunger will remain with you. What you acquire, you will not preserve; and what you save, I will give to the sword.
- Micah 6:14
Through
Isaiah 1:7Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.
it leads to
- Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
- Deuteronomy 28:43
The foreigner living among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink down lower and lower.
- Lamentations 5:2
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.