You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it.
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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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Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.
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Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 28:38 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Haggai 1:6 You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.”
- Joel 1:4 What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.
- Micah 6:15 You will sow, but won’t reap. You will tread the olives, but won’t anoint yourself with oil; and crush grapes, but won’t drink the wine.
- Joel 2:25 I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar, my great army, which I sent among you.
- Amos 4:9 “I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards; and the swarming locusts have devoured your fig trees and your olive trees; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
- Exodus 10:14-15 The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. Before them there were no such locusts as they, nor will there ever be again. For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. There remained nothing green, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
- Isaiah 5:10 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.”
- Joel 2:3 A fire devours before them, and behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.
- Amos 7:1-2 Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold, it was the latter growth after the king’s harvest. When they finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, “Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Deu 28:38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into…
Deu 28:38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather [but] little in; for the locust shall consume it.
Ver. 38. For the locust shall consume it.] See this fulfilled in Joe 1:4 Amo 4:9; Amo 7:1-2 Hag 1:6; Hag 1:11.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shall…
Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shall not enjoy them,.... Or, "they shall not be thine" (q); being taken from them, and given to others, see Deu 28:32; and for the following reason:
for they shall go into captivity; as when the ten tribes were carried captive by Shalmaneser, and the two tribes by Nebuchadnezzar, and all the people of the Jews by the Romans.
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(q) "et non erunt tibi", Pagninus, Montanus.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain All: so that the little which thou mayst gather…
All: so that the little which thou mayst gather will not be worth mentioning. (Haydock) --- Hebrew may also signify, "Thy field shall produce a great deal, and give thee abundant expectations, but the locusts shall consume it," to mortify thee the more.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 38-40. Gather… little in — The curse is extended…
38-40. Gather… little in — The curse is extended to all labour of the field and the vineyard.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 38. Here the Discourse returns to Israel’s misfortunes on…
38. Here the Discourse returns to Israel’s misfortunes on their own land, and the connection seems to be with Deu_28:15-24 (or 25), to which Deu_28:38-44 are more or less parallel.
38–40. Consumption of corn by locusts and of grapes by worms, and casting of olives. For these products see on Deu_7:13. Locust, Heb. ’arbeh, properly locust-swarm. Worm, Heb. tola‘ath; the grub which ruins vines, Gk. ἴψ or ἶξ (Strabo, xiii. i. 64), Lat. convolvulus (Pliny, H.N. xvii. 47), is the wine-weevil (Knobel). On cast see on Deu_7:1.
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41 breaks the connection between Deu_28:40; Deu_28:42, and is out of place; cp. Deu_28:32.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (38-42) These are the contrary to Deu_28:11; and Deu_28:44…
(38-42) These are the contrary to Deu_28:11; and Deu_28:44 is the contrary to Deu_28:12-13. From the order of the passage it might seem that these particular troubles were to come on Israel after their captivity. And perhaps it is not accidental that something very like a fulfilment of Deu_28:38-40 is found in Hag_1:6-11. (Comp. also Isa_5:10, “Ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.”)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Even in their own land the curse would overtake…
Even in their own land the curse would overtake them and rest upon them in all their interests and relations.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 General Information:
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Moses speaks to the Israelites as if they were one man, so the words "you" and "your" here are singular. (See: Forms of You)
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but will gather little seed in
"but will harvest very little food"
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seed
locust
consume
vineyard
wine
grape
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