Deuteronomy 28:39

39 You will put in vines and take care of them, but you will get no wine or grapes from them; for they will be food for worms.

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 And you will become a wonder and a name of shame among all the nations where the Lord will take you.

38 You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it.

39 You will put in vines and take care of them, but you will get no wine or grapes from them; for they will be food for worms.

40 Your land will be full of olive-trees, but there will be no oil for the comfort of your body; for your olive-tree will give no fruit.

41 You will have sons and daughters, but they will not be yours; for they will go away prisoners into a strange land.