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


In Context

36 The Lord will drive you and the king you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your fathers. There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone.

37 You will become a thing of horror and an object of scorn and ridicule to all the nations where the Lord will drive you.

38 You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it.

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

40 You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off.

41 You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity.

Deuteronomy 28:39 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

28:39Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress [them,] but shalt neither drink [of] the wine, nor gather [the grapes;] for the worms shall eat them.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

28:39Thou shalt plant a vineyard, and dig it, and shalt not drink the wine, nor gather any thing thereof: because it shall be wasted with worms.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

28:39Thou shalt plant vineyards and dress them, but thou shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes ; for the worm shall eat them.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

28:39Thou shalt plant and till vineyards, but shalt drink no wine, nor gather the fruit; for the worms shall eat it.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

28:39Thou shalt plant vineyards and dress them, but thou shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worm shall eat them.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

28:39Thou shalt plant vineyards and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes: for the worm shall eat them.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

28:39You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather [the grapes]; for the worm shall eat them.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

28:39vineyards thou dost plant, and hast laboured, and wine thou dost not drink nor gather, for the worm doth consume it;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

28:39You shall plant vineyards, and dress them, but shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.