Deuteronomy 28:40

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

You will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with olive oil, because the olives will drop off the trees while still unripe.

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Referenced Verses

  • Mic 6:15 : 15 You will plant crops, but will not harvest them; you will squeeze oil from the olives, but you will have no oil to rub on your bodies; you will squeeze juice from the grapes, but you will have no wine to drink.
  • Ps 23:5 : 5 You prepare a feast before me in plain sight of my enemies. You refresh my head with oil; my cup is completely full.
  • Ps 104:15 : 15 as well as wine that makes people feel so good, and so they can have oil to make their faces shine, as well as food that sustains people’s lives.

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  • Mic 6:14-15
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    14You will eat, but not be satisfied. Even if you have the strength to overtake some prey, you will not be able to carry it away; if you do happen to carry away something, I will deliver it over to the sword.

    15You will plant crops, but will not harvest them; you will squeeze oil from the olives, but you will have no oil to rub on your bodies; you will squeeze juice from the grapes, but you will have no wine to drink.

  • Deut 28:36-39
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    80%

    36The LORD will force you and your king whom you will appoint over you to go away to a people whom you and your ancestors have not known, and you will serve other gods of wood and stone there.

    37You will become an occasion of horror, a proverb, and an object of ridicule to all the peoples to whom the LORD will drive you.

    38The Curse of Reversed Status“You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it.

    39You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink wine or gather in grapes, because worms will eat them.

  • Deut 28:41-42
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    41You will bear sons and daughters but not keep them, because they will be taken into captivity.

    42Whirring locusts will take over every tree and all the produce of your soil.

  • Deut 24:20
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    20When you beat your olive tree you must not repeat the procedure; the remaining olives belong to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.

  • Deut 28:51
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    51They will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed. They will not leave you with any grain, new wine, olive oil, calves of your herds, or lambs of your flocks until they have destroyed you.

  • Deut 28:30-34
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    76%

    30You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.

    31Your ox will be slaughtered before your very eyes but you will not eat of it. Your donkey will be stolen from you as you watch and will not be returned to you. Your flock of sheep will be given to your enemies and there will be no one to save you.

    32Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you look on in vain all day, and you will be powerless to do anything about it.

    33As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives.

    34You will go insane from seeing all this.

  • Lev 26:20
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    20Your strength will be used up in vain, your land will not give its yield, and the trees of the land will not produce their fruit.

  • Job 15:32-33
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    32Before his time he will be paid in full, and his branches will not flourish.

    33Like a vine he will let his sour grapes fall, and like an olive tree he will shed his blossoms.

  • Deut 6:11
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    11houses filled with choice things you did not accumulate, hewn out cisterns you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant– and you eat your fill,

  • Judg 9:8-9
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    8“The trees were determined to go out and choose a king for themselves. They said to the olive tree,‘Be our king!’

    9But the olive tree said to them,‘I am not going to stop producing my oil, which is used to honor gods and men, just to sway above the other trees!’

  • Deut 28:4
    72%

    4Your children will be blessed, as well as the produce of your soil, the offspring of your livestock, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.

  • Hos 14:6
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    6His young shoots will grow; his splendor will be like an olive tree, his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.

  • Exod 30:31
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    31And you are to tell the Israelites:‘This is to be my sacred anointing oil throughout your generations.

  • Josh 24:13
    72%

    13I gave you a land in which you had not worked hard; you took up residence in cities you did not build and you are eating the produce of vineyards and olive groves you did not plant.’

  • Jer 11:16
    72%

    16I, the LORD, once called you a thriving olive tree, one that produced beautiful fruit. But I will set you on fire, fire that will blaze with a mighty roar. Then all your branches will be good for nothing.

  • Isa 1:30
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    30For you will be like a tree whose leaves wither, like an orchard that is unwatered.

  • 1 Sam 8:14
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    14He will take your best fields, vineyards, and olive groves, and give them to his own servants.

  • Hab 3:17
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    17When the fig tree does not bud, and there are no grapes on the vines; when the olive trees do not produce, and the fields yield no crops; when the sheep disappear from the pen, and there are no cattle in the stalls,

  • Deut 28:18
    72%

    18Your children will be cursed, as well as the produce of your soil, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.

  • Jer 31:5
    71%

    5Once again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria. Those who plant them will once again enjoy their fruit.

  • Deut 28:11
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    11The LORD will greatly multiply your children, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil in the land which he promised your ancestors he would give you.

  • Deut 22:9
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    9Illustrations of the Principle of Purity You must not plant your vineyard with two kinds of seed; otherwise the entire yield, both of the seed you plant and the produce of the vineyard, will be defiled.

  • Ps 128:3
    71%

    3Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in the inner rooms of your house; your children will be like olive branches, as they sit all around your table.

  • Isa 24:13
    71%

    13This is what will happen throughout the earth, among the nations. It will be like when they beat an olive tree, and just a few olives are left at the end of the harvest.

  • Lev 26:5
    71%

    5Threshing season will extend for you until the season for harvesting grapes, and the season for harvesting grapes will extend until sowing season, so you will eat your bread until you are satisfied, and you will live securely in your land.

  • Lev 25:3-5
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    70%

    3Six years you may sow your field, and six years you may prune your vineyard and gather the produce,

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

    5You must not gather in the aftergrowth of your harvest and you must not pick the grapes of your unpruned vines; the land must have a year of complete rest.

  • Isa 17:6
    70%

    6There will be some left behind, like when an olive tree is beaten– two or three ripe olives remain toward the very top, four or five on its fruitful branches,” says the LORD God of Israel.

  • Deut 12:17
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    17You will not be allowed to eat in your villages your tithe of grain, new wine, olive oil, the firstborn of your herd and flock, any votive offerings you have vowed, or your freewill and personal offerings.

  • Exod 27:20
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    20Offering the Oil“You are to command the Israelites that they bring to you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, so that the lamps will burn regularly.

  • Lev 25:11
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    11That fiftieth year will be your jubilee; you must not sow the land, harvest its aftergrowth, or pick the grapes of its unpruned vines.

  • Ezek 36:30
    70%

    30I will multiply the fruit of the trees and the produce of the fields, so that you will never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations.

  • Isa 17:10
    70%

    10For you ignore the God who rescues you; you pay no attention to your strong protector. So this is what happens: You cultivate beautiful plants and plant exotic vines.

  • Deut 23:24
    70%

    24When you enter the vineyard of your neighbor you may eat as many grapes as you please, but you must not take away any in a container.

  • Exod 30:25
    70%

    25You are to make this into a sacred anointing oil, a perfumed compound, the work of a perfumer. It will be sacred anointing oil.

  • Deut 16:21
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    21Examples of Legal Cases You must not plant any kind of tree as a sacred Asherah pole near the altar of the LORD your God which you build for yourself.

  • Deut 8:8
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    8a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates, of olive trees and honey,

  • Isa 37:30
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    30“This will be your reminder that I have spoken the truth: This year you will eat what grows wild, and next year what grows on its own. But the year after that you will plant seed and harvest crops; you will plant vines and consume their produce.