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Deuteronomy 28:33

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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.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labors, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway;

KJV

The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:

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This verse in Deuteronomy 28

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Which thou knowest not - Which shall come from a far country, which thou didst not at all expect or fear, and therefore will be the more dreadful when they come; a nation whose language thou understandest not, and therefore canst not plead with them for mercy, nor expect any favour from them.

This site's exposition

Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation

on Deuteronomy 28:32-34

The children are taken and the parent is left watching, “your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day”. Verse 34 makes madness the effect of what the eyes have seen, and verse 67 closes the chapter on that same sight.

This site's exposition

A people you do not

Wesley draws two dangers from a people you do not know. Nobody feared them in advance, and nobody could plead with them for mercy in a language they shared. That unknown tongue returns at verse 49.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

The fruit of thy land, and all thy labour, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up,....

The words behind it

15 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • פְּרִ֤י[the] fruit of

    periH6529 →119 times

  • אַדְמָֽתְךָ֙ground your

    ʾadmatekhaH127 →225 times

  • וְכָל־and all

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • יְגִ֣יעֲךָ֔[the] result of toil your

    yegiakhaH3018 →

  • יֹאכַ֥לit will eat

    yokhalH398 →810 times

  • עַ֖םa people

    ʾamH5971 →1873 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • לֹא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • יָדָ֑עְתָּyou have known

    yadaetaH3045 →945 times

  • וְהָיִ֗יתָand you will be

    vehayitaH1961 →3559 times

  • רַ֛קonly

    rakH7535 →109 times

  • עָשׁ֥וּקoppressed

    ʾashukH6231 →36 times

  • וְרָצ֖וּץand crushed

    veratzutzH7533 →

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הַיָּמִֽים׃the days

    haiyamimH3117 →2304 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

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 you have toiled.8 worksIsaiah 1:7Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.6 worksNehemiah 9:37Its abundant harvest goes to the kings You have set over us because of our sins. And they rule over our bodies and our livestock as they please. We are in great distress.6 worksZechariah 7:14But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behind them so that no one could come or go. Thus they turned the pleasant land into a desolation.”5 worksJeremiah 5:17They will devour your harvest and food; they will consume your sons and daughters; they will eat up your flocks and herds; they will feed on your vines and fig trees. With the sword they will destroy the fortified cities in which you trust.”4 worksHosea 5:11Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, for he is determined to follow worthless idols.4 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Deuteronomy 28:51They 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.4 worksEcclesiastes 4:1Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.4 worksEzekiel 25:4therefore I will indeed give you as a possession to the people of the East. They will set up their camps and pitch their tents among you. They will eat your fruit and drink your milk.4 worksHosea 8:7For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.3 worksAmos 4:1Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”3 worksJudges 6:4encamping against them as far as Gaza and destroying the produce of the land. They left Israel with no sustenance, neither sheep nor oxen nor donkeys.3 worksLeviticus 26:16then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.2 worksNehemiah 9:36–37So here we are today as slaves in the land You gave our fathers to enjoy its fruit and goodness—here we are as slaves!2 worksJeremiah 8:16The snorting of enemy horses is heard from Dan. At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds, the whole land quakes. They come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who dwell in it.2 worksDeuteronomy 28:29–30and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.2 worksJeremiah 4:17They surround her like men guarding a field, because she has rebelled against Me,” declares the LORD.2 worksJeremiah 5:15Behold, I am bringing a distant nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD. “It is an established nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know and whose speech you do not understand.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each 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

    Leviticus 26:16

    then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed…

    it leads to

    • Job 31:8

      then may another eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.

    • Jeremiah 5:17

      They will devour your harvest and food; they will consume your sons and daughters; they will eat up your flocks and herds; they will feed on your vines and fig trees. With the sword…

    • Micah 6:15

      You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.

    • 1 Samuel 2:33

      And every one of you that I do not cut off from My altar, your eyes will fail and your heart will grieve. All your descendants will die by the sword of men.

    • Deuteronomy 28:51

      They 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…

  • Through

    Isaiah 1:7

    Your 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.

    • Ezekiel 30:12

      I will make the streams dry up and sell the land to the wicked. By the hands of foreigners I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it. I, the LORD, have…

Where this verse is studied

About Deuteronomy

Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.
Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.
Deuteronomy: the study guide →Read Deuteronomy 28 →

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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