Deuteronomy 28:51

They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — Moses addresses the assembled Israelites on the plains of Moab, pronouncing the covenant curses that will follow their disobedience before they enter the Promised Land.

The words — אָכַל (a.khal) literally means "it will devour," and עַד (ad) functions as the temporal boundary "until," structuring the siege as a prolonged consumption that halts only at total ruin.

The thread — The text describes enemy forces stripping the land of grain, oil, and livestock until starvation occurs, a pattern echoed in Deuteronomy 28:33, contrasted with divine preservation in Isaiah 62:8, and aligned with the rationing warnings of Leviticus 26:26.

Why it lands — It requires the reader to acknowledge that covenant obedience guarantees agricultural provision, while rebellion invites total resource depletion under foreign siege.

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The Hebrew words

וְ֠אָכַלVe./'a.khaland/ it will devour פְּרִ֨יpe.Ri[the] fruit of בְהֶמְתְּךָ֥ve.hem.te./Khalivestock/ your וּפְרִֽי־u./fe.ri-and/ [the] fruit of אַדְמָתְךָ֮'ad.ma.te./Khaground/ your עַ֣ד'aduntil הִשָּֽׁמְדָךְ֒hi.sha.me.do/Khbeing destroyed/ you אֲשֶׁ֨ר'a.Sherwhich לֹֽא־lo'-not יַשְׁאִ֜ירyash.'Irit will leaveלְךָ֗le./Khato <the>/ youדָּגָן֙da.Gangrain תִּיר֣וֹשׁti.Ro.oshnew wine וְיִצְהָ֔רve./yitz.Harand/ fresh oil שְׁגַ֥רshe.Gar[the] young of אֲלָפֶ֖יךָ'a.la.Fei./khacattle<s>/ your וְעַשְׁתְּרֹ֣תve./'ash.te.Rotand/ [the] young ones of צֹאנֶ֑ךָtzo.Ne./khasheep/ your עַ֥ד'aduntil הַאֲבִיד֖וֹha.'a.vi.D/odestroys/ it אֹתָֽךְ׃'o.Ta/kh<obj.>/ you

King James Version

And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.

Cross-references

Deuteronomy 28:33 A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.
Isaiah 62:8 The LORD has sworn by His right hand and by His mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain to your enemies for food, nor will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled.
Leviticus 26:26 When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.
Isaiah 1:7 Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.
Jeremiah 15:13 Your wealth and your treasures I will give up as plunder, without charge for all your sins within all your borders.
Jeremiah 17:3 O My mountain in the countryside, I will give over your wealth and all your treasures as plunder, because of the sin of your high places, within all your borders.
Ezekiel 12:19 Then tell the people of the land that this is what the Lord GOD says about those living in Jerusalem and in the land of Israel: ‘They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in dread, for their land will be stripped of everything in it because of the violence of all who dwell in it.
Habakkuk 3:16 I heard and trembled within; my lips quivered at the sound. Decay entered my bones; I trembled where I stood. Yet I must wait patiently for the day of distress to come upon the people who invade us.