Malachi 3:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And on your account I will keep back the locusts from wasting the fruits of your land; and the fruit of your vine will not be dropped on the field before its time, says the Lord of armies

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  • Amos 4:9 : 9 I have sent destruction on your fields by burning and disease: the increase of your gardens and your vine-gardens, your fig-trees and your olive-trees, has been food for worms: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.
  • Amos 7:1-3 : 1 This is what the Lord God let me see: and I saw that, when the growth of the late grass was starting, he made locusts; it was the late growth after the king's cutting was done. 2 And it came about that after they had taken all the grass of the land, I said, O Lord God, have mercy: how will Jacob be able to keep his place? for he is small. 3 The Lord, changing his purpose about this, said, It will not be.
  • Hag 2:17 : 17 And I sent burning and wasting and a rain of ice-drops on all the works of your hands; but still you were not turned to me, says the Lord.
  • Zech 8:12 : 12 For I will let the seed of peace be planted; the vine will give her fruit and the land will give her increase and the heavens will give their dew; and I will give to the rest of this people all these things for their heritage.
  • Hab 3:17 : 17 For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house:
  • Joel 1:12 : 12 The vine has become dry and the fig-tree is feeble; the pomegranate and the palm-tree and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field, are dry: because joy has gone from the sons of men.
  • Joel 2:20 : 20 I will send the one from the north far away from you, driving him into a dry and waste land, with his front to the sea of the east and his back to the sea of the west, and the smell of him will go up, even his evil smell will go up.
  • Joel 2:22 : 22 Have no fear, you beasts of the field, for the grass-lands of the waste are becoming green, for the trees are producing fruit, the fig-tree and the vine give out their strength.
  • Deut 11:14 : 14 Then I will send rain on your land at the right time, the early rains and the late rains, so that you may get in your grain and your wine and your oil.
  • Jer 8:13 : 13 I will put an end to them completely, says the Lord: there are no grapes on the vine and no figs on the fig-tree, and the leaf is dry.
  • Joel 1:4 : 4 What the worm did not make a meal of, has been taken by the locust; and what the locust did not take, has been food for the plant-worm; and what the plant-worm did not take, has been food for the field-fly.
  • Joel 1:7 : 7 By him my vine is made waste and my fig-tree broken: he has taken all its fruit and sent it down to the earth; its branches are made white.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Mal 3:8-10
    3 verses
    78%

    8 Will a man keep back from God what is right? But you have kept back what is mine. But you say, What have we kept back from you? Tenths and offerings.

    9 You are cursed with a curse; for you have kept back from me what is mine, even all this nation.

    10 Let your tenths come into the store-house so that there may be food in my house, and put me to the test by doing so, says the Lord of armies, and see if I do not make the windows of heaven open and send down such a blessing on you that there is no room for it.

  • Mal 3:12-13
    2 verses
    78%

    12 And you will be named happy by all nations: for you will be a land of delight, says the Lord of armies.

    13 Your words have been strong against me, says the Lord. And still you say, What have we said against you?

  • Hag 1:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10 For this cause the heaven over you is kept from giving dew, and the earth from giving her fruit.

    11 And by my order no rain came on the land or on the mountains or the grain or the wine or the oil or the produce of the earth or on men or cattle or on any work of man's hands.

  • Joel 2:25
    76%

    25 I will give back to you the years which were food for the locust, the plant-worm, the field-fly, and the worm, my great army which I sent among you.

  • Zech 8:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

    11 But now I will not be to the rest of this people as I was in the past, says the Lord of armies.

    12 For I will let the seed of peace be planted; the vine will give her fruit and the land will give her increase and the heavens will give their dew; and I will give to the rest of this people all these things for their heritage.

  • Ezek 36:30
    74%

    30 And I will make the tree give more fruit and the field fuller produce, and no longer will you be shamed among the nations for need of food.

  • Lev 26:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4 Then I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will give her increase and the trees of the field will give their fruit;

    5 And the crushing of the grain will overtake the cutting of the grapes, and the cutting of the grapes will overtake the planting of the seed, and there will be bread in full measure, and you will be living in your land safely.

  • Hab 3:17
    74%

    17 For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house:

  • Deut 11:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14 Then I will send rain on your land at the right time, the early rains and the late rains, so that you may get in your grain and your wine and your oil.

    15 And I will give grass in your fields for your cattle, so that you may have food in full measure.

  • Lev 25:20-22
    3 verses
    73%

    20 And if you say, Where will our food come from in the seventh year, when we may not put in seed, or get in the increase

    21 Then I will send my blessing on you in the sixth year, and the land will give fruit enough for three years.

    22 And in the eighth year you will put in your seed, and get your food from the old stores, till the fruit of the ninth year is ready.

  • Amos 4:9
    73%

    9 I have sent destruction on your fields by burning and disease: the increase of your gardens and your vine-gardens, your fig-trees and your olive-trees, has been food for worms: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

  • Isa 37:30
    72%

    30 And this will be the sign to you: you will get your food this year from what comes up of itself, and in the second year from the produce of the same; and in the third year you will put in your seed, and get in the grain, and make vine-gardens, and take of their fruit.

  • Lev 26:20
    72%

    20 And your strength will be used up without profit; for your land will not give her increase and the trees of the field will not give their fruit.

  • Deut 11:17
    72%

    17 For if you do so, the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, and the heaven will be shut up so that there is no rain and the land will give no fruit; and in a very little time you will be cut off from the good land which the Lord is giving you.

  • Jer 8:13
    72%

    13 I will put an end to them completely, says the Lord: there are no grapes on the vine and no figs on the fig-tree, and the leaf is dry.

  • 2 Kgs 19:29
    72%

    29 And this will be the sign to you: you will get your food this year from what comes up of itself; and in the second year from the produce of the same; and in the third year you will put in your seed and get in the grain and make vine-gardens and take of their fruit.

  • Deut 28:38-39
    2 verses
    72%

    38 You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it.

    39 You will put in vines and take care of them, but you will get no wine or grapes from them; for they will be food for worms.

  • Jer 5:17
    72%

    17 They will take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled towns in which you put your faith.

  • Joel 2:22
    71%

    22 Have no fear, you beasts of the field, for the grass-lands of the waste are becoming green, for the trees are producing fruit, the fig-tree and the vine give out their strength.

  • Hag 2:17
    71%

    17 And I sent burning and wasting and a rain of ice-drops on all the works of your hands; but still you were not turned to me, says the Lord.

  • Isa 5:6
    71%

    6 And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.

  • Deut 28:11
    71%

    11 And the Lord will make you fertile in every good thing, in the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your fields, in the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, said he would give you.

  • Lev 19:25
    71%

    25 But in the fifth year you may take the fruit and the increase of it for your food: I am the Lord your God.

  • Hag 2:19
    71%

    19 Is the seed still in the store-house? have the vine and the fig-tree, the pomegranate and the olive-tree, still not given their fruit? from this day I will send my blessing on you.

  • Deut 28:42
    71%

    42 All your trees and the fruit of your land will be the locust's.

  • Prov 3:10
    71%

    10 So your store-houses will be full of grain, and your vessels overflowing with new wine.

  • Deut 28:51
    71%

    51 He will take the fruit of your cattle and of your land till death puts an end to you: he will let you have nothing of your grain or wine or oil or any of the increase of your cattle or the young of your flock, till he has made your destruction complete.

  • Jer 6:9
    71%

    9 This is what the Lord of armies has said: Everything will be taken from the rest of Israel as the last grapes are taken from the vine; let your hand be turned to the small branches, like one pulling off grapes.

  • Joel 1:11
    70%

    11 The farmers are shamed, the workers in the vine-gardens give cries of grief, for the wheat and the barley; for the produce of the fields has come to destruction.

  • Isa 18:5
    70%

    5 For before the time of getting in the grapes, after the opening of the bud, when the flower has become a grape ready for crushing, he will take away the small branches with knives, cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching branches.

  • Jer 2:3
    70%

    3 Israel was holy to the Lord, the first-fruits of his increase: all who made attacks on him were judged as wrongdoers, evil came on them, says the Lord.

  • Amos 4:7
    70%

    7 And I have kept back the rain from you, when it was still three months before the grain-cutting: I sent rain on one town and kept it back from another: one part was rained on, and the part where there was no rain became a waste.

  • Mal 4:1
    70%

    1 For see, the day is coming, it is burning like an oven; all the men of pride and all who do evil will be dry stems of grass: and in the day which is coming they will be burned up, says the Lord of armies, till they have not a root or a branch.

  • Hos 2:12
    70%

    12 And I will make waste her vines and her fig-trees, of which she has said, These are the payments which my lovers have made to me; and I will make them a waste of trees, and the beasts of the field will take them for food.

  • Jer 12:13
    70%

    13 Though good grain was planted, they have got in thorns: they have given themselves pain without profit: they will be shamed on account of their produce, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.

  • Zech 2:9
    70%

    9 For I, says the Lord, will be a wall of fire round about her, and I will be the glory inside her.

  • Joel 2:19
    70%

    19 And the Lord made answer and said to his people, See, I will send you grain and wine and oil in full measure: and I will no longer let you be shamed among the nations:

  • Zech 5:4
    70%

    4 And I will send it out, says the Lord of armies, and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of him who takes a false oath by my name: and it will be in his house, causing its complete destruction, with its woodwork and its stones.

  • Joel 1:17
    70%

    17 The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.

  • Mal 2:2
    70%

    2 If you will not give ear and take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord of armies, then I will send the curse on you and will put a curse on your blessing: truly, even now I have put a curse on it, because you do not take it to heart.