Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

vineyards thou dost plant, and hast laboured, and wine thou dost not drink nor gather, for the worm doth consume it;

New American Standard Bible

You shall plant and cultivate vineyards, but you will neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm will devour them.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

You will plant and cultivate vineyards but not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.

International Standard Version

You'll plant a vineyard, but you won't drink wine or harvest any grapes because worms will consume it.

A Conservative Version

Thou shall plant vineyards and dress them, but thou shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather, for the worm shall eat them.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because the worm will eat them.

Bible in Basic English

You will put in vines and take care of them, but you will get no wine or grapes from them; for they will be food for worms.

Darby Translation

Thou shalt plant and till vineyards, but shalt drink no wine, nor gather the fruit; for the worms shall eat it.

Julia Smith Translation

Thou shalt plant vineyards and thou shalt work; and thou shalt not drink the wine, and thou shalt not gather, for the worm shall eat it

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

You shall plant vineyards and you shall dress [them], but you shall not drink wine and you shall not gather grapes, for the worm shall eat it.

Modern King James verseion

You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but shall neither drink the wine nor gather, for the worm shall eat them.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thou shalt plant a vineyard and dress it, but shalt neither drink of the wine neither gather of the grapes: for the worms shall eat it.

NET Bible

You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink wine or gather in grapes, because worms will eat them.

New Heart English Bible

You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine, nor harvest; for the worm shall eat them.

The Emphasized Bible

Vineyards, shalt thou plant, and dress, - but wine, shalt thou not drink, neither shalt thou gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them.

Webster

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

World English Bible

You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather [the grapes]; for the worm shall eat them.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
נטע 
Nata` 
Usage: 58

כּרם 
Kerem 
Usage: 93

and dress
עבד 
`abad 
Usage: 288

שׁתה 
Shathah 
Usage: 218

of the wine
יין 
Yayin 
Usage: 140

אגר 
'agar 
Usage: 3

the grapes for the worms
תּלעת תּולעת תּולעה תּולע 
Towla` 
Usage: 43

אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Smith

Watsons

Context Readings

Blessings And Curses

38 'Much seed thou dost take out into the field, and little thou dost gather in, for the locust doth consume it; 39 vineyards thou dost plant, and hast laboured, and wine thou dost not drink nor gather, for the worm doth consume it; 40 olives are to thee in all thy border, and oil thou dost not pour out, for thine olive doth fall off.

Cross References

Isaiah 5:10

For ten acres of vineyard do yield one bath, And an homer of seed yieldeth an ephah.

Isaiah 17:10-11

Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, And the rock of thy strength hast not remembered, Therefore thou plantest plants of pleasantness, And with a strange slip sowest it,

Joel 1:4-7

What is left of the palmer-worm, eaten hath the locust, And what is left of the locust, Eaten hath the cankerworm, And what is left of the cankerworm, Eaten hath the caterpillar.

Joel 2:2-4

A day of darkness and thick darkness, A day of cloud and thick darkness, As darkness spread on the mountains, A people numerous and mighty, Like it there hath not been from of old, And after it there is not again -- till the years of generation and generation.

Jonah 4:7

And God appointeth a worm at the going up of the dawn on the morrow, and it smiteth the gourd, and it drieth up.

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