Deuteronomy 28:39

39 You will plant vineyards and take care of them, but you won't drink any wine or gather any grapes, because worms will eat them.

Deuteronomy 28:39 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 28:39

Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress [them]
Plant them and prune them, in expectation of much fruit from them:

but shall neither drink [of] the wine nor gather [the grapes];
so far from drinking of the wine of them, that they should not be able to gather any grapes from them:

for the worms shall eat them;
a sort of worms pernicious to vines, which the Greeks call "ipes", or "ikes" ^F15; and the Latins "convolvuli" and "volvoces", as Pliny ^F16.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 See Bochart. Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 4. c. 27. col. 622, 623.
F16 Nat. Hist. l. 17. c. 28.

Deuteronomy 28:39 In-Context

37 You will become a thing of horror. All the nations where the LORD will send you will make an example of you and ridicule you.

38 You will plant many crops in your fields, but harvest little because locusts will destroy your crops.

39 You will plant vineyards and take care of them, but you won't drink any wine or gather any grapes, because worms will eat them.

40 You will have olive trees everywhere in your country but no olive oil to rub on your skin, because the olives will fall off the trees.

41 You will have sons and daughters, but you won't be able to keep them because they will be taken as prisoners of war.