“You will have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you won’t anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Deuteronomy 28 contains 68 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.