You will have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you won’t anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Deuteronomy 28:40 in context
Deuteronomy 28:37–43
37
You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the LORD will lead you away.
38
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
Selected verse
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.
42
Locusts will consume all of your trees and the fruit of your ground.
43
The foreigner who is among you will mount up above you higher and higher, and you will come down lower and lower.
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