Deuteronomy 28:39 BSB

Deuteronomy 28:39

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

BSB

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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.

KJV

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

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Commentary

1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them,.... Plant them and prune them, in expectation of much fruit from them: but shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes; so far from drinking of the wine of them, that they should not be able to gather any grapes from them: for the worms shall eat them; a sort of worms pernicious to vines, which the Greeks call "ipes", or "ikes" (o); and the Latins "convolvuli" and "volvoces", as Pliny (p). (o) See Bochart. Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 4. c. 27. col. 622, 623. (p) Nat. Hist. l. 17. c.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כְּרָמִ֥ים	ke.ra.Mim	vineyards	H3754 →
תִּטַּ֖ע	ti.Ta'	you will plant	H5193 →
וְעָבָ֑דְתָּ	ve.'a.Va.de.ta	and you will labor	H5647 →
וְיַ֤יִן	ve.Ya.yin	and wine	H3196 →
לֹֽא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
תִשְׁתֶּה֙	tish.Teh	you will drink	H8354 →
וְלֹ֣א	ve.Lo'	and not	H3808 →
תֶאֱגֹ֔ר	te.'e.Gor	you will gather	H103 →
כִּ֥י	ki	for	H3588 →
תֹאכְלֶ֖נּוּ	to.khe.Le.nu	it will eat it	H398 →
הַתֹּלָֽעַת׃	ha.to.La.'at	the worm[s]	H8438 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jonah 4:7
When dawn came the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant so that it withered.
leads to
- Joel 1:12
  The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple—all the trees of the orchard—are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.
- Psalms 90:5–6
  You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
- Job 1:21
  saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”
- Psalms 102:10
  because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and cast me aside.
Through
Isaiah 5:10
For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”
leads to
- Leviticus 26:26
  When 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.
- Haggai 1:6
  You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into…
- Haggai 2:16
  from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths, there were but twenty.
- Haggai 1:9–11
  You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you…

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