Verse 8

then may I sow, but another eat, and may my offspring be uprooted.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 26:16 : 16 I, in turn, will do this to you: I will bring sudden terror upon you, wasting diseases and fever that destroy your eyes and drain your strength. You will plant your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.
  • Mic 6:15 : 15 You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not use their oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.
  • Deut 28:38 : 38 You will sow much seed in the field but gather little, because locusts will consume it.
  • Deut 28:51 : 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, new wine, or fresh oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have wiped you out.
  • Judg 6:3-6 : 3 Whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people of the east would come up and attack them. 4 They camped against them and destroyed the crops of the land all the way to Gaza, leaving nothing for the Israelites to live on—not even sheep, cattle, or donkeys. 5 For they came with their livestock and tents, like swarms of locusts in number. Both they and their camels were too many to count, and they invaded the land to devastate it. 6 So Israel was brought very low because of Midian, and the Israelites cried out to the Lord for help.
  • Job 5:4-5 : 4 His children are far from safety; they are crushed at the gate with no one to deliver them. 5 The hungry devour his harvest, even taking it from among thorns; the thirsty swallow his wealth.
  • Job 15:30 : 30 He will not escape from darkness; a flame will dry up his branch, and the breath of God's mouth will carry him away.
  • Job 18:19 : 19 He has no offspring or posterity among his people, nor any survivor where he once lived.
  • Job 20:18 : 18 He will give back the fruit of his labor but will not swallow it; like the wealth of his trade, he will not enjoy it.
  • Job 24:6 : 6 In the fields, they reap the fodder; they glean the vineyard of the wicked.
  • Ps 109:13 : 13 May his descendants be cut off, and may their name be wiped out in the next generation.
  • Deut 28:30-33 : 30 You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not enjoy its fruit. 31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken forcibly from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them. 32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you watch with longing eyes all day, but you will be powerless to act. 33 A people you don’t know will eat the fruit of your land and the result of your labor. You will be oppressed and crushed continually.