OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 38

Deuteronomy 28:38

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You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it.

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Deuteronomy 28:35–41

35

The LORD will strike you in the knees and in the legs with a sore boil, of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

36

The LORD will bring you, and your king whom you will set over yourselves, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods of wood and stone.

37

You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the LORD will lead you away.

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You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it.

39

You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink of the wine, nor harvest, because worms will eat them.

40

You will have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you won’t anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off.

41

You will father sons and daughters, but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.

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