Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 28:39
Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress [them], but shalt neither drink [of] the wine, nor gather [the grapes]; for the worms shall eat them.
Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress [them],…. Plant them and prune them, in expectation of much fruit from them:
but shall neither drink [of] the wine nor gather [the grapes]; so far from drinking of the wine of them, that they should not be able to gather any grapes from them:
for the worms shall eat them; a sort of worms pernicious to vines, which the Greeks call “ipes”, or “ikes” o; and the Latins “convolvuli” and “volvoces”, as Pliny p.
o See Bochart. Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 4. c. 27. col. 622, 623. p Nat. Hist. l. 17. c. 28.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
for the worms: Joe 1:4-7, Joe 2:2-4, Jon 4:7
Reciprocal: Deu 28:42 – thy trees Neh 9:37 – it yieldeth Job 15:33 – and Psa 128:2 – thou shalt eat Jer 6:12 – And their Jer 8:13 – there Amo 5:11 – ye have built Zep 1:13 – build