Deuteronomy 28:40

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Your land will be full of olive-trees, but there will be no oil for the comfort of your body; for your olive-tree will give no fruit.

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Referenced Verses

  • Mic 6:15 : 15 You will put in seed, but you will not get in the grain; you will be crushing olives, but your bodies will not be rubbed with the oil; and you will get in the grapes, but you will have no wine.
  • Ps 23:5 : 5 You make ready a table for me in front of my haters: you put oil on my head; my cup is overflowing.
  • Ps 104:15 : 15 And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Mic 6:14-15
    2 verses
    81%

    14 You will have food, but not enough; your shame will be ever with you: you will get your goods moved, but you will not take them away safely; and what you do take away I will give to the sword.

    15 You will put in seed, but you will not get in the grain; you will be crushing olives, but your bodies will not be rubbed with the oil; and you will get in the grapes, but you will have no wine.

  • Deut 28:36-39
    4 verses
    80%

    36 And you, and the king whom you have put over you, will the Lord take away to a nation strange to you and to your fathers; there you will be servants to other gods of wood and stone.

    37 And you will become a wonder and a name of shame among all the nations where the Lord will take you.

    38 You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it.

    39 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.

  • Deut 28:41-42
    2 verses
    80%

    41 You will have sons and daughters, but they will not be yours; for they will go away prisoners into a strange land.

    42 All your trees and the fruit of your land will be the locust's.

  • Deut 24:20
    77%

    20 When you are shaking the fruit from your olive-trees, do not go over the branches a second time: let some be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow.

  • Deut 28:51
    77%

    51 He will take the fruit of your cattle and of your land till death puts an end to you: he will let you have nothing of your grain or wine or oil or any of the increase of your cattle or the young of your flock, till he has made your destruction complete.

  • Deut 28:30-34
    5 verses
    76%

    30 You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.

    31 Your ox will be put to death before your eyes, but its flesh will not be your food: your ass will be violently taken away before your face, and will not be given back to you: your sheep will be given to your haters, and there will be no saviour for you.

    32 Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, and your eyes will be wasted away with looking and weeping for them all the day: and you will have no power to do anything.

    33 The fruit of your land and all the work of your hands will be food for a nation which is strange to you and to your fathers; you will only be crushed down and kept under for ever:

    34 So that the things which your eyes have to see will send you out of your minds.

  • Lev 26:20
    74%

    20 And your strength will be used up without profit; for your land will not give her increase and the trees of the field will not give their fruit.

  • Job 15:32-33
    2 verses
    74%

    32 His branch is cut off before its time, and his leaf is no longer green.

    33 He is like a vine whose grapes do not come to full growth, or an olive-tree dropping its flowers.

  • Deut 6:11
    73%

    11 And houses full of good things not stored up by you, and places for storing water which you did not make, and vine-gardens and olive-trees not of your planting; and you have taken food and are full;

  • Judg 9:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8 One day the trees went out to make a king for themselves; and they said to the olive-tree, Be king over us.

    9 But the olive-tree said to them, Am I to give up my wealth of oil, by which men give honour to God, and go waving over the trees?

  • Deut 28:4
    72%

    4 A blessing will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herd, and the young of your flock.

  • Hos 14:6
    72%

    6 I will be as the dew to Israel; he will put out flowers like a lily, and send out his roots like Lebanon.

  • Exod 30:31
    72%

    31 And say to the children of Israel, This is to be the Lord's holy oil, from generation to generation.

  • Josh 24:13
    72%

    13 And I gave you a land on which you had done no work, and towns not of your building, and you are now living in them; and your food comes from vine-gardens and olive-gardens not of your planting.

  • Jer 11:16
    72%

    16 You had been named by the Lord, A branching olive-tree, fair with beautiful fruit: with the noise of a great rushing he has put it on fire and its branches are broken.

  • Isa 1:30
    72%

    30 For you will be like a tree whose leaves have become dry, and like a garden without water.

  • 1 Sam 8:14
    72%

    14 He will take your fields and your vine-gardens and your olive-gardens, all the best of them, and give them to his servants.

  • Hab 3:17
    72%

    17 For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house:

  • Deut 28:18
    72%

    18 A curse will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.

  • Jer 31:5
    71%

    5 Again will your vine-gardens be planted on the hill of Samaria: the planters will be planting and using the fruit.

  • Deut 28:11
    71%

    11 And the Lord will make you fertile in every good thing, in the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your fields, in the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, said he would give you.

  • Deut 22:9
    71%

    9 Do not have your vine-garden planted with two sorts of seed: or all of it may become a loss, the seed you have put in as well as the increase.

  • Ps 128:3
    71%

    3 Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table.

  • Isa 24:13
    71%

    13 For it will be in the heart of the earth among the peoples, like the shaking of an olive-tree, as the last of the grapes after the getting-in is done.

  • Lev 26:5
    71%

    5 And the crushing of the grain will overtake the cutting of the grapes, and the cutting of the grapes will overtake the planting of the seed, and there will be bread in full measure, and you will be living in your land safely.

  • Lev 25:3-5
    3 verses
    70%

    3 For six years put seed into your land, and for six years give care to your vines and get in the produce of them;

    4 But let the seventh year be a Sabbath of rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord; do not put seed into your land or have your vines cut.

    5 That which comes to growth of itself may not be cut, and the grapes of your uncared-for vines may not be taken off; let it be a year of rest for the land.

  • Isa 17:6
    70%

    6 But it will be like a man shaking an olive-tree, something will still be there, two or three berries on the top of the highest branch, four or five on the outside branches of a fertile tree, says the Lord, the God of Israel.

  • Deut 12:17
    70%

    17 In your towns you are not to take as food the tenth part of your grain, or of your wine or your oil, or the first births of your herds or of your flocks, or anything offered under an oath, or freely offered to the Lord, or given as a lifted offering;

  • Exod 27:20
    70%

    20 Give orders to the children of Israel to give you clear olive oil for the lights, so that a light may be burning there at all times.

  • Lev 25:11
    70%

    11 Let this fiftieth year be the Jubilee: no seed may be planted, and that which comes to growth of itself may not be cut, and the grapes may not be taken from the uncared-for vines.

  • Ezek 36:30
    70%

    30 And I will make the tree give more fruit and the field fuller produce, and no longer will you be shamed among the nations for need of food.

  • Isa 17:10
    70%

    10 For you have not given honour to the God of your salvation, and have not kept in mind the Rock of your strength; for this cause you made a garden of Adonis, and put in it the vine-cuttings of a strange god;

  • Deut 23:24
    70%

    24 When you go into your neighbour's vine-garden, you may take of his grapes at your pleasure, but you may not take them away in your vessel.

  • Exod 30:25
    70%

    25 And make these into a holy oil, a perfume made by the art of the perfume-maker; it is to be a holy oil.

  • Deut 16:21
    70%

    21 Let no holy tree of any sort be planted by the altar of the Lord your God which you will make.

  • Deut 8:8
    70%

    8 A land of grain and vines and fig-trees and fair fruits; a land of oil-giving olive-trees and honey;

  • Isa 37:30
    70%

    30 And this will be the sign to you: you will get your food this year from what comes up of itself, and in the second year from the produce of the same; and in the third year you will put in your seed, and get in the grain, and make vine-gardens, and take of their fruit.