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


In Context

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.

42 Swarms of locusts will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.

Deuteronomy 28:40 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

28:40Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint [thyself] with the oil; for thine olive shall cast [his fruit. ]

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

28:40Thou shalt have olive trees in all thy borders, and shalt not be anointed with the oil: for the olives shall fall off and perish.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

28:40Thou shalt have olive-trees throughout all thy borders, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast its fruit .

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

28:40Olive-trees shalt thou have throughout all thy borders, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with oil; for thine olive-tree shall cast its fruit.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

28:40Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy borders, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil: for thine olive shall cast its fruit.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

28:40Thou shalt have olive-trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil: for thy olive shall cast its fruit.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

28:40You shall have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olive shall cast [its fruit].

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

28:40olives are to thee in all thy border, and oil thou dost not pour out, for thine olive doth fall off.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

28:40You shall have olive trees throughout all your coasts, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olive shall cast his fruit.