Deuteronomy 28:39

39 You will plant vineyards and work hard in them, but you will not pick the grapes or drink the wine, because the 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 hated thing to the nations where the Lord sends you; they will laugh at you and make fun of you.

38 You will plant much seed in your field, but your harvest will be small, because locusts will eat the crop.

39 You will plant vineyards and work hard in them, but you will not pick the grapes or drink the wine, because the worms will eat them.

40 You will have olive trees in all your land, but you will not get any olive oil, because the olives will drop off the trees.

41 You will have sons and daughters, but you will not be able to keep them, because they will be taken captive.