Deuteronomy 28:30

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Summary

Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.

Betroth

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General references

Ecclesiastes 3:13

Isaiah 65:21

Lamentations 5:11

Bible References

Betroth

Or if any man has made a vine-garden without taking the first-fruits of it, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another may not be the first to make use of the fruit.

Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body.

So I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who will take them for themselves: for everyone, from the least to the greatest, is given up to getting money; from the priest even to the prophet, everyone is false.

There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.

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There the prisoners are at peace together; the voice of the overseer comes not again to their ears.

The Lord of armies has said to me secretly, Truly, numbers of great and fair houses will be waste, with no one living in them.

And they will be building houses and living in them; planting vine-gardens and getting the fruit of them.

Though good grain was planted, they have got in thorns: they have given themselves pain without profit: they will be shamed on account of their produce, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.

Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.

So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.

You will put in seed, but you will not get in the grain; you will be crushing olives, but your bodies will not be rubbed with the oil; and you will get in the grapes, but you will have no wine.

And their wealth will be violently taken away, and their houses will be made waste: they will go on building houses and never living in them, and planting vine-gardens but not drinking the wine from them.

General references

And for every man to take food and drink, and have joy in all his work, is a reward from God.

And they will be building houses and living in them; planting vine-gardens and getting the fruit of them.

They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.