Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.

For the worms

General references

Bible References

For the worms

Joel 1:4
What the worm did not make a meal of, has been taken by the locust; and what the locust did not take, has been food for the plant-worm; and what the plant-worm did not take, has been food for the field-fly.
Joel 2:2
For a day of dark and deep shade is near, a day of cloud and black night: like a black cloud a great and strong people is covering the mountains; there has never been any like them and will not be after them again, from generation to generation.
Jonah 4:7
But early on the morning after, God made ready a worm for the destruction of the vine, and it became dry and dead.

General references

Micah 6:15
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.

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain