Deuteronomy 28:38-39

38 You'll plant sacks and sacks of seed in the field but get almost nothing - the grasshoppers will devour it.
39 You'll plant and hoe and prune vineyards but won't drink or put up any wine - the worms will devour them.

Deuteronomy 28:38-39 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 28

In this chapter Moses enlarges on the blessings and the curses which belong, the one to the doers, the other to the transgressors of the law; the blessings, De 28:1-14; the curses, some of which concern individual persons, others the whole nation and body of people, and that both under the former and present dispensations, and which had their fulfilment in their former captivities, and more especially in their present dispersion, De 28:15-68.

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