Deuteronomy 28:30

28:30 You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape ¹  her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.

Deuteronomy 28:39

28:39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink wine or gather in grapes, because worms will eat them.

Deuteronomy 28:51

28:51 They ²  will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed. They will not leave you with any grain, new wine, olive oil, calves of your herds, ³  or lambs of your flocks ⁴  until they have destroyed you.

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¹ tc For MT reading שָׁגַל (shagal, “ravish; violate”), the Syriac, Targum, and Vulgate presume the less violent שָׁכַב (shakhav, “lie with”). The unexpected counterpart to betrothal here favors the originality of the MT.

² tn Heb “it” (so NRSV), a collective singular referring to the invading nation (several times in this verse and v. 52).

³ tn Heb “increase of herds.”

⁴ tn Heb “growth of flocks.”