Catholic Public Domain Version
"You will have olive trees in all your borders, but you will not be anointed with the oil. For the olives will fall off and perish. "
— Deuteronomy 28:40, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.”
“Thou shalt have olive-trees throughout all thy borders, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast its fruit. ”
“You shall have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olive shall cast [its fruit].”
“You will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with olive oil, because the olives will drop off the trees while still unripe.”
“Thou shalt have olive trees in all thy borders, and shalt not be anointed with the oil: for the olives shall fall off and perish.”
“Your land will be full of olive-trees, but there will be no oil for the comfort of your body; for your olive-tree will give no fruit.”
“Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.”
And you will become nothing but a proverb and a fable to all the peoples to whom the Lord will lead you.
You will sow much seed upon the ground, but you will harvest little. For the locusts will devour everything.
You will dig and plant a vineyard, but you will not drink the wine, nor gather anything at all from it. For it will be devastated by worms.
You will have olive trees in all your borders, but you will not be anointed with the oil. For the olives will fall off and perish.
You will conceive sons and daughters, and you will not enjoy them. For they will be led into captivity.
Rot will consume all the trees, as well as the fruits of your land.
The new arrival who lives with you in the land will ascend over you, and be higher. But you will descend, and be lower.