Deuteronomy 28:40 You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off.

English Standard Version
You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off.

New American Standard Bible
"You shall have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off.

King James Bible
Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You will have olive trees throughout your territory but not anoint yourself with oil, because your olives will drop off.

International Standard Version
You'll have olive trees throughout your territory, but you won't be able to anoint yourself with oil, because the olives will drop off the trees.

American Standard Version
Thou shalt have olive-trees throughout all thy borders, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast its fruit .

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt have olive trees in all thy borders, and shalt not be anointed with the oil: for the olives shall fall off and perish.

Darby Bible Translation
Olive-trees shalt thou have throughout all thy borders, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with oil; for thine olive-tree shall cast its fruit.

Young's Literal Translation
olives are to thee in all thy border, and oil thou dost not pour out, for thine olive doth fall off.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

28:15-44 If we do not keep God's commandments, we not only come short of the blessing promised, but we lay ourselves under the curse, which includes all misery, as the blessing all happiness. Observe the justice of this curse. It is not a curse causeless, or for some light cause. The extent and power of this curse. Wherever the sinner goes, the curse of God follows; wherever he is, it rests upon him. Whatever he has is under a curse. All his enjoyments are made bitter; he cannot take any true comfort in them, for the wrath of God mixes itself with them. Many judgments are here stated, which would be the fruits of the curse, and with which God would punish the people of the Jews, for their apostacy and disobedience. We may observe the fulfilling of these threatenings in their present state. To complete their misery, it is threatened that by these troubles they should be bereaved of all comfort and hope, and left to utter despair. Those who walk by sight, and not by faith, are in danger of losing reason itself, when every thing about them looks frightful.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

37. And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee, &c.—The annals of almost every nation, for eighteen hundred years, afford abundant proofs that this has been, as it still is, the case—the very name of Jew being a universally recognized term for extreme degradation and wretchedness.