Deuteronomy 28:39

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink their wine or gather their grapes, for worms will eat them.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

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

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

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

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Thou shalt plant{H5193} vineyards{H3754} and dress{H5647} them, but thou shalt neither drink{H8354} of the wine,{H3196} nor gather{H103} [the grapes]; for the worm{H8438} shall eat{H398} them.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Thou shalt plant{H5193}{(H8799)} vineyards{H3754}, and dress{H5647}{(H8804)} them, but shalt neither drink{H8354}{(H8799)} of the wine{H3196}, nor gather{H103}{(H8799)} the grapes; for the worms{H8438} shall eat{H398}{(H8799)} them.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    Thou shalt plante a vyneyarde and dresse it, but shalt nether drynke off the wyne nether gather of the grapes, for the wormes shall eate it.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Thou shalt plante vynyardes and dresse the, but thou shalt nether drynke of the wyne, ner gather of ye grapes: for ye wormes shal consume it.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Thou shalt plant a vineyard, and dresse it, but shalt neither drinke of the wine, nor gather the grapes: for the wormes shall eate it.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Thou shalt plant a vineyarde and dresse it, but shalt neither drinke of the wine, neither gather the grapes: for the wormes shall eate it.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather [the grapes]; for the worm shall eat them.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    vineyards thou dost plant, and hast laboured, and wine thou dost not drink nor gather, for the worm doth consume it;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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 (1901)

    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.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather [the grapes]; for the worm shall eat them.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink wine or gather in grapes, because worms will eat them.

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 5:10 : 10 For ten acres of vineyard will yield only a single bath of wine, and a homer of seed will produce merely an ephah of grain.
  • Isa 17:10-11 : 10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, you will plant pleasant plants and set them with imported vines. 11 Though on the day you plant them you make them grow, and in the morning you make your seed blossom, yet the harvest will be a heap on the day of grief and incurable pain.
  • Joel 1:4-7 : 4 What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten; and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten. 5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you wine drinkers, because of the fresh wine, for it is cut off from your mouth. 6 For a nation has invaded my land, strong and without number. Its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and it has the fangs of a lioness. 7 It has laid waste my vine and ruined my fig tree. It has stripped off their bark and thrown it away; their branches are made white.
  • Joel 2:2-4 : 2 It is a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness. Like the dawn spreading over the mountains, a great and mighty army comes, unlike any seen before, and none will be seen again for generations to follow. 3 Before them, fire devours; behind them, flames blaze. The land before them is like the Garden of Eden, but behind them, it is a desolate wilderness—nothing escapes them. 4 Their appearance is like that of horses; like warhorses, they run.
  • Jonah 4:7 : 7 But at dawn the next day, God appointed a worm, which attacked the plant so that it withered.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    84%

    38 You will sow much seed in the field but gather little, because locusts will consume it.

  • Mic 6:14-15
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    81%

    14 You will eat but not be satisfied, and your emptiness will remain within you. You will store up but not save, and what you do save, I will give over to the sword.

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  • Deut 28:40-42
    3 verses
    80%

    40 You will have olive trees throughout your territory, but you will not anoint yourself with oil, for your olives will drop off prematurely.

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    42 Swarms of insects will take possession of all your trees and the produce of your land.

  • Deut 28:51
    78%

    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, new wine, or fresh oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have wiped you out.

  • Jer 31:5
    78%

    5 You will plant vineyards again on the hills of Samaria; the planters will plant them and enjoy their fruit.

  • Deut 28:30-31
    2 verses
    77%

    30 You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not enjoy its fruit.

    31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken forcibly from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them.

  • Deut 22:9
    76%

    9 Do not plant two kinds of seeds in your vineyard, or the entire harvest, both the crop you plant and the fruit of the vineyard, will be forfeited.

  • Deut 23:24
    75%

    24 Whatever comes out of your lips, you must be sure to do, because you made your vow freely to the LORD your God with your own mouth.

  • Lev 25:11
    75%

    11 The fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee for you; you shall not sow, reap what grows by itself, or gather the grapes from unpruned vines.

  • Lev 25:3-5
    3 verses
    75%

    3 For six years, you may sow your field and prune your vineyard, and gather its produce;

    4 but in the seventh year, the land must have a Sabbath of complete rest, a Sabbath to the LORD. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.

    5 You shall not harvest what grows by itself after your harvest, nor gather the grapes of your unpruned vines. It will be a year of complete rest for the land.

  • Isa 37:30
    75%

    30 This will be the sign for you: This year you will eat what grows by itself, and in the second year, what springs from that. But in the third year, sow and reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.

  • 2 Kgs 19:29
    74%

    29 And this will be a sign for you: This year you will eat what grows by itself, and in the second year, what springs from that. But in the third year, sow and reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.

  • Deut 20:6
    74%

    6 If anyone has planted a vineyard but has not yet enjoyed its fruit, let him go back to his house, lest he die in battle and another enjoy its fruit.

  • Deut 28:33
    74%

    33 A people you don’t know will eat the fruit of your land and the result of your labor. You will be oppressed and crushed continually.

  • Nah 3:15
    74%

    15 There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down. It will consume you like the young locusts. Multiply yourselves like locusts; increase yourselves like swarming locusts.

  • Lev 26:20
    74%

    20 Your strength will be spent in vain, because your land will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

  • Jer 35:7
    73%

    7 'You must not build houses, sow seed, plant vineyards, or own any of these things, but instead, live in tents all your days so that you may live long in the land where you sojourn.'

  • Amos 5:11
    73%

    11 Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact a grain tax from them, though you have built houses of cut stone, you will not live in them; though you have planted delightful vineyards, you will not drink their wine.

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    73%

    21 When you harvest the grapes in your vineyard, do not go over the vines again. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.

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    73%

    13 Their wealth will become plunder, and their houses a desolation. They will build houses but not live in them, and they will plant vineyards but not drink their wine.

  • Ps 107:37
    73%

    37 They sowed fields and planted vineyards, which yielded a fruitful harvest.

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    73%

    5 Your threshing will continue until grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing, and you will eat your bread to the full and live securely in your land.

  • Isa 5:2
    73%

    2 He dug it and cleared it of stones and planted it with the choicest vines. He built a tower in its center and also carved out a winepress in it. He hoped it would produce good grapes, but it yielded only wild ones.

  • Isa 18:5
    73%

    5 For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, the branches will be cut with pruning knives, and the spreading branches will be removed and discarded.

  • Hab 3:17
    73%

    17 Though the fig tree does not blossom and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and there are no cattle in the stalls,

  • Hos 9:2
    72%

    2 The threshing floor and the winepress will not provide for them, and the new wine will fail them.

  • Amos 9:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13 Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when the plowman will overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes the one sowing seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, and all the hills will flow with it.

    14 I will restore My people Israel from captivity. They will rebuild desolate cities and inhabit them. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine. They will make gardens and eat their fruit.

  • Joel 1:5
    72%

    5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you wine drinkers, because of the fresh wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.

  • Isa 17:11
    72%

    11 Though on the day you plant them you make them grow, and in the morning you make your seed blossom, yet the harvest will be a heap on the day of grief and incurable pain.

  • Deut 32:32
    72%

    32 Their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are poisonous, and their clusters are bitter.

  • Lev 19:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9 When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.

    10 Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.

  • Joel 1:11
    72%

    11 Be ashamed, you farmers; wail, you vinekeepers, for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.

  • Gen 40:10
    72%

    10 And on the vine were three branches. As soon as it budded, its blossoms came out, and its clusters ripened into grapes.

  • Josh 24:13
    72%

    13 I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities you did not build. You are living in them and eating from vineyards and olive groves you did not plant.

  • Isa 27:2
    72%

    2 On that day, sing of a delightful vineyard!

  • Num 6:4
    72%

    4 For the entire duration of their vow of separation, they must not eat anything from the grapevine—not even the seeds or the skins.

  • Jer 5:17
    72%

    17 They will consume your harvest and your bread, devour your sons and daughters, eat your flocks and herds, and consume your vines and fig trees. With the sword, they will destroy your fortified cities in which you trust.

  • Deut 6:11
    72%

    11 with houses full of every good thing that you did not fill, wells that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant—when you eat and are satisfied.

  • Jer 12:13
    71%

    13 They have sown wheat but reaped thorns; they have exhausted themselves to no profit. Be ashamed of your harvests because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

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    71%

    13 I will take away their harvest, declares the LORD. There will be no grapes on the vine, no figs on the tree, and even the leaves will wither. What I have given them will be taken from them.

  • Isa 16:10
    71%

    10 Joy and gladness are taken away from the fertile fields. In the vineyards, no songs are sung, no cheers are heard. No one treads out wine in the presses—the cheerful shouting has stopped.

  • Job 15:33
    71%

    33 He will shake off his unripe grapes like a vine and cast away his blossoms like the olive tree.