Deuteronomy 28:42

King James Version

All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Buzzing insects will take possession of all your trees and your land’s produce.

Hebrew Names Version
All your trees and the fruit of your ground shall the arbeh possess.

Lexham English Bible
The cricket shall take possession of all your trees and the fruit of your ground.

English Standard Version
The cricket shall possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground.

New Century Version
Locusts will destroy all your trees and crops.

New English Translation
Whirring locusts will take over every tree and all the produce of your soil.

Amplified Bible
"The cricket will take possession of all your trees and the produce of your ground.

New American Standard Bible
"The cricket will take possession of all your trees and the produce of your ground.

Geneva Bible (1587)
All thy trees and fruite of thy land shall the grashopper consume.

Legacy Standard Bible
The cricket shall possess all your trees and the produce of your ground.

Contemporary English Version
Locusts will eat your crops and strip your trees of leaves and fruit.

Complete Jewish Bible
The bugs will inherit all your trees and the produce of your land.

Darby Translation
All thy trees and the fruit of thy ground shall the locust possess.

Easy-to-Read Version
Locusts will destroy all your trees and the crops in your fields.

George Lamsa Translation
All your trees and fruits of your land shall the locust consume.

Good News Translation
All your trees and crops will be devoured by insects.

Literal Translation
The locust shall possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
All thy trees and frutes of thy londe shall be marred with blastinge.

American Standard Version
All thy trees and the fruit of thy ground shall the locust possess.

Bible in Basic English
All your trees and the fruit of your land will be the locust's.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
All the trees and fruite of thy lande shall wormes consume.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
All thy trees and the fruit of thy land shall the locust possess.

King James Version (1611)
All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locusts consume.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
All thy trees and the fruits of thy land shall the blight consume.

English Revised Version
All thy trees and the fruit of thy ground shall the locust possess.

Berean Standard Bible
Swarms of locusts will consume all your trees and the produce of your land.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Rust schal waaste alle thi trees and fruytis of thi lond.

Young's Literal Translation
all thy trees and the fruit of thy ground doth the locust possess;

Update Bible Version
All your trees and the fruit of your ground shall the locust possess.

Webster's Bible Translation
All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.

World English Bible
All your trees and the fruit of your ground shall the locust possess.

New King James Version
Locusts shall consume all your trees and the produce of your land.

New Living Translation
Swarms of insects will destroy your trees and crops.

New Life Bible
The locust will own all your trees and the food of your field.

New Revised Standard
All your trees and the fruit of your ground the cicada shall take over.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
All thy trees, and the fruit of thy ground, shall the grasshopper, devour.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The blast shall consume all the trees and the fruits of thy ground.

Revised Standard Version
All your trees and the fruit of your ground the locust shall possess.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The cricket shall possess all your trees and the produce of your ground.

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: ¹⁶ Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. ¹⁷ Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. ¹⁸ Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. ¹⁹ Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out. ²⁰ The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me. ²¹ The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it. ²² The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish. ²³ And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. ²⁴ The Lord shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thy trees: Deuteronomy 28:38, Deuteronomy 28:39, Amos 7:1, Amos 7:2

consume: or, possess

Reciprocal: Exodus 10:14 - the locusts Leviticus 26:20 - for your land Hosea 9:12 - yet Joel 1:4 - the locust eaten Amos 4:9 - the palmerworm

Gill's Notes on the Bible

All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume. Which is a creature that not only consumes grass, and herbs, and the corn of the field, but all green trees; see Exodus 10:15. This sort here has its name from the shade they make, hiding the light of the sun, and darkening the face of the earth at no on day; or from the noise they make with their wings in flying; see Joel 2:5.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The curses correspond in form and number Deuteronomy 28:15-19 to the blessings Deuteronomy 28:3-6, and the special modes in which these threats should be executed are described in five groups of denunciations Deuteronomy 28:20-68.

Deuteronomy 28:20-26

First series of judgments. The curse of God should rest on all they did, and should issue in manifold forms of disease, in famine, and in defeat in war.

Deuteronomy 28:20

Vexation - Rather, confusion: the word in the original is used Deuteronomy 7:23; 1 Samuel 14:20 for the panic and disorder with which the curse of God smites His foes.

Deuteronomy 28:22

“Blasting” denotes (compare Genesis 41:23) the result of the scorching east wind; “mildew” that of an untimely blight falling on the green ear, withering it and marring its produce.

Deuteronomy 28:24

When the heat is very great the atmosphere in Palestine is often filled with dust and sand; the wind is a burning sirocco, and the air comparable to the glowing heat at the mouth of a furnace.

Deuteronomy 28:25

Shalt be removed - See the margin. The threat differs from that in Leviticus 26:33, which refers to a dispersion of the people among the pagan. Here it is meant that they should be tossed to and fro at the will of others, driven from one country to another without any certain settlement.

Deuteronomy 28:27-37

Second series of judgments on the body, mind, and outward circumstances of the sinners.

Deuteronomy 28:27

The “botch” (rather “boil;” see Exodus 9:9), the “emerods” or tumors 1Sa 5:6, 1 Samuel 5:9, the “scab” and “itch” represent the various forms of the loathsome skin diseases which are common in Syria and Egypt.

Deuteronomy 28:28

Mental maladies shah be added to those sore bodily plagues, and should Deuteronomy 28:29-34 reduce the sufferers to powerlessness before their enemies and oppressors.

Blindness - Most probably mental blindness; compare Lamentations 4:14; Zep 1:17; 2 Corinthians 3:14 ff.

Deuteronomy 28:30-33

See the marginal references for the fulfillment of these judgments.

Deuteronomy 28:38-48

Third series of judgments, affecting every kind of labor and enterprise until it had accomplished the total ruin of the nation, and its subjection to its enemies.

Deuteronomy 28:39

Worms - i. e. the vine-weevil. Naturalists prescribed elaborate precautions against its ravages.

Deuteronomy 28:40

Cast ... - Some prefer “shall be spoiled” or “plundered.”

Deuteronomy 28:43, Deuteronomy 28:44

Contrast Deuteronomy 28:12 and Deuteronomy 28:13.

Deuteronomy 28:46

Forever - Yet “the remnant” Romans 9:27; Romans 11:5 would by faith and obedience become a holy seed.

Deuteronomy 28:49-58

Fourth series of judgments, descriptive of the calamities and horrors which should ensue when Israel should be subjugated by its foreign foes.

Deuteronomy 28:49

The description (compare the marginal references) applies undoubtedly to the Chaldeans, and in a degree to other nations also whom God raised up as ministers of vengeance upon apostate Israel (e. g. the Medes). But it only needs to read this part of the denunciation, and to compare it with the narrative of Josephus, to see that its full and exact accomplishment took place in the wars of Vespasian and Titus against the Jews, as indeed the Jews themselves generally admit.

The eagle - The Roman ensign; compare Matthew 24:28; and consult throughout this passage the marginal references.

Deuteronomy 28:54

Evil - i. e. grudging; compare Deuteronomy 15:9.

Deuteronomy 28:57

Young one - The “afterbirth” (see the margin). The Hebrew text in fact suggests an extremity of horror which the King James Version fails to exhibit. Compare 2 Kings 6:29.

Deuteronomy 28:58-68

Fifth series of judgments. The uprooting of Israel from the promised land, and its dispersion among other nations. Examine the marginal references.

Deuteronomy 28:58

In this book - i. e. in the book of the Law, or the Pentateuch in so far as it contains commands of God to Israel. Deuteronomy is included, but not exclusively intended. So Deuteronomy 28:61; compare Deuteronomy 27:3 and note, Deuteronomy 31:9.

Deuteronomy 28:66

Thy life shall hang in doubt before thee - i. e. shall be hanging as it were on a thread, and that before thine own eyes. The fathers regard this passage as suggesting in a secondary or mystical sense Christ hanging on the cross, as the life of the Jews who would not believe in Him.

Deuteronomy 28:68

This is the climax. As the Exodus from Egypt was as it were the birth of the nation into its covenant relationship with God, so the return to the house of bondage is in like manner the death of it. The mode of conveyance, “in ships,” is added to heighten the contrast. They crossed the sea from Egypt with a high hand. the waves being parted before them. They should go back again cooped up in slaveships.

There ye shall be sold - Rather, “there shall ye offer yourselves, or be offered for sale.” This denunciation was literally fulfilled on more than one occasion: most signally when many thousand Jews were sold into slavery and sent into Egypt by Titus; but also under Hadrian, when numbers were sold at Rachel’s grave Genesis 35:19.

No man shall buy you - i. e. no one shall venture even to employ you as slaves, regarding you as accursed of God, and to be shunned in everything.