Deuteronomy 28:38

Green's Literal Translation

You shall carry much seed out to the field, and you shall gather in little; for the locusts will devour it.

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
You shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for the locust shall consume it.

Update Bible Version
You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.

English Revised Version
Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.

New Century Version
You will plant much seed in your field, but your harvest will be small, because locusts will eat the crop.

New English Translation
"You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt carry much seed into the field, and shalt gather [but] little: for the locust shall consume it.

World English Bible
You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.

Amplified Bible
"You will bring out a great quantity of seed to the field, but you will gather in little, because the locusts will consume it.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou schalt caste myche seed in to the erthe, and thou schalt gadere litil; for locustis schulen deuoure alle thingis.

Young's Literal Translation
`Much seed thou dost take out into the field, and little thou dost gather in, for the locust doth consume it;

Berean Standard Bible
You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.

Contemporary English Version
You will plant a lot of seed, but gather a small harvest, because locusts will eat your crops.

American Standard Version
Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.

Bible in Basic English
You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou shalt carry muche seede out into the fielde, and shalt gather but litle in: for the grashoppers shall destroy it.

Complete Jewish Bible
"You will carry much seed out to the field but gather little in, because locusts will devour it.

Darby Translation
Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall devour it.

Easy-to-Read Version
"Your fields will produce plenty of grain. But your harvest will be small, because the locusts will eat your harvest.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.

King James Version (1611)
Thou shalt carie much seede out into the field, and shalt gather but litle in: for the locust shall consume it.

New Life Bible
"You will sow much seed in the field, but gather little, for the locust will eat it.

New Revised Standard
You shall carry much seed into the field but shall gather little in, for the locust shall consume it.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Much seed, shalt thou take out into the field, - and little, shalt thou gather in, for the locust shall consume it.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou shalt carie out much seede into the fielde, and shalt gather but litle in: for the grashoppers shall destroy it.

George Lamsa Translation
You shall carry much seed into your field, and you shall gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.

Good News Translation
"You will plant plenty of seed, but reap only a small harvest, because the locusts will eat your crops.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt cast much seed into the ground, and gather little: because the locusts shall consume all.

Revised Standard Version
You shall carry much seed into the field, and shall gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou shalt carry forth much seed into the field, and thou shalt bring in little, because the locust shall devour it.

Christian Standard Bible®
“You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because locusts will devour it.

Hebrew Names Version
You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in; for the arbeh shall consume it.

King James Version
Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.

Lexham English Bible
"You shall carry out much seed to the field, but you shall gather little produce, for the locust shall devour it.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou shalt cary out moch sede in to ye felde, and shalt gather but litle in: for the greshoppers shal destroye it.

THE MESSAGE
You'll plant sacks and sacks of seed in the field but get almost nothing—the grasshoppers will devour it. You'll plant and hoe and prune vineyards but won't drink or put up any wine—the worms will devour them. You'll have groves of olive trees everywhere, but you'll have no oil to rub on your face or hands—the olives will have fallen off. You'll have sons and daughters but they won't be yours for long—they'll go off to captivity. Locusts will take over all your trees and crops.

New American Standard Bible
"You will bring out a great amount of seed to the field, but you will gather in little, because the locust will devour it.

New King James Version
"You shall carry much seed out to the field but gather little in, for the locust shall consume it.

New Living Translation
"You will plant much but harvest little, for locusts will eat your crops.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You shall bring out much seed to the field but you will gather in little, for the locust will consume it.

Legacy Standard Bible
"You shall bring out much seed to the field, but you will gather in little, for the locust will consume it.

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ And it shall be, if you will not heed the voice of your God, to take heed to do all His commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today, even all these curses shall come on you and overtake you: ¹⁶ You shall be cursed in the city, and you shall be cursed in the field. ¹⁷ Your basket and your kneading-trough shall be cursed. ¹⁸ The fruit of your body shall be cursed, and the fruit of your land, the offspring of your oxen, and the young ones of your sheep. ¹⁹ You shall be cursed when you come in, and you shall be cursed when you go out. ²⁰ Jehovah shall send cursing on you, trouble and rebuke in all that you set your hand, all which you will do, until you are destroyed, or until you quickly perish, because of the badness of your doings by which you have forsakenMe. ²¹ Jehovah shall make the plague cling to you until He has consumed you from off the land where you are going, to possess it. ²² Jehovah shall strike you with lung disease and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting and mildew. And they shall pursue you until you perish. ²³ And your heavens over your head shall become bronze, and the earth under you iron. ²⁴ Jehovah shall make the rain of your land be dust and ashes. It shall come down on you from the heavens until you are destroyed.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

shalt carry: Isaiah 5:10, Micah 6:15, Haggai 1:6

for the locust: Exodus 10:14, Exodus 10:15, Joel 1:4, Joel 2:3, Joel 2:25, Amos 4:9, Amos 7:1, Amos 7:2

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:20 - for your land Deuteronomy 28:42 - thy trees Ruth 1:1 - a famine 1 Kings 8:37 - in the land famine 2 Kings 4:38 - a dearth 2 Kings 8:1 - the Lord Job 31:8 - let me Isaiah 17:10 - shalt thou Isaiah 65:23 - shall Jeremiah 12:13 - sown Amos 4:6 - and want Amos 5:11 - ye have built

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou shall carry much seed into the field,.... And sow it plentifully; this and what is said in some following verses plainly refer to them while in their own land, before carried captive, and not to their present case and circumstances:

and shall gather [but] little in at harvest; little springing up, or not coming to perfection, being blighted and blasted, and so yielded but a small crop; see Haggai 1:9; and chiefly for the following reason:

for the locust shall consume it; which is a great destroyer of the fruits of the earth; see Joel 1:4.

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.