Deuteronomy 28:30
Context28:30 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 28:38-39
ContextThe Curse of Reversed Status
28:38 “You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it. 28:39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink wine or gather in grapes, because worms will eat them.
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.