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Deuteronomy 28:38 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

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

Deuteronomy 28:38

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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.

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

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Related Verses

Genesis 3:18

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"It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field."

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Isaiah 30:23

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"He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures."

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Leviticus 26:16

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"I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it."

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Micah 6:15

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"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."

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Hosea 8:7

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"For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up."

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Haggai 1:6

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"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.’"

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Deuteronomy 28:1

"It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the LORD your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth."

Deuteronomy 28:2

"All these blessings will come upon you, and overtake you, if you listen to the LORD your God’s voice."

Deuteronomy 28:3

"You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field."

Deuteronomy 28:4

"You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock."

Deuteronomy 28:5

"Your basket and your kneading trough shall be blessed."

Deuteronomy 28:6

"You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed when you go out."

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