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37 You will become a horror, fit only for use in proverbs and in insults by all the nations where the Lord drives you. 38 You might scatter a lot of seed on the field, but you will gather almost nothing because the locusts will eat it all. 39 You might plant lots of vineyards and work hard in them, but you won’t drink any wine or harvest the grapes because worms will devour them.

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37 You will become a thing of horror,(A) a byword(B) and an object of ridicule(C) among all the peoples where the Lord will drive you.(D)

38 You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little,(E) because locusts(F) will devour(G) it. 39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine(H) or gather the grapes, because worms will eat(I) them.(J)

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