Deuteronomy 28:39 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁹ You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁹ Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁹ You shall plant vineyards and dress them but shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁹ Thou shalt plant vineyards and dress them, but thou shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worm shall eat them.

Common English Bible

³⁹ You might plant lots of vineyards and work hard in them, but you won’t drink any wine or harvest the grapes because worms will devour them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁹ You will dig and plant a vineyard, but you will not drink the wine, nor gather anything at all from it. For it will be devastated by worms.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁹ Thou shalt plant a vineyard, and dig it, and shalt not drink the wine, nor gather any thing thereof: because it shall be wasted with worms.

Deuteronomy 28:39 Cross References

Job 15:33

They will shake off their unripe grape, like the vine, and cast off their blossoms, like the olive tree.

Isaiah 5:10

For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield a mere ephah.

Jonah 4:7

But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the bush, so that it withered.

Habakkuk 3:17

Though the fig tree does not blossom and no fruit is on the vines; though the produce of the olive fails and the fields yield no food; though the flock is cut off from the fold and there is no herd in the stalls,