30 (A)You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall ravish her. (B)You shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it. (C)You shall plant a vineyard, but you shall not enjoy its fruit. 31 Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat any of it. Your donkey shall be seized before your face, but shall not be restored to you. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies, but there shall be no one to help you. 32 (D)Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, (E)but you shall be helpless. 33 A nation that you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually,

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30 You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her.(A) You will build a house, but you will not live in it.(B) You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit.(C) 31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it. Your donkey will be forcibly taken from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them. 32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation,(D) and you will wear out your eyes watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand. 33 A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression(E) all your days.(F)

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39 (A)You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them. 40 You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you (B)shall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off. 41 You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for (C)they shall go into captivity. 42 (D)The cricket[a] shall possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground. 43 (E)The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:42 Identity uncertain

39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine(A) or gather the grapes, because worms will eat(B) them.(C) 40 You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off.(D) 41 You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity.(E) 42 Swarms of locusts(F) will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.

43 The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower.(G)

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