Psalms 129:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He who gets in the grain has no use for it; and they do not make bands of it for the grain-stems.

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  • Gal 6:8 : 8 Because he who puts in the seed of the flesh will of the flesh get the reward of death; but he who puts in the seed of the Spirit will of the Spirit get the reward of eternal life.
  • Ps 126:6 : 6 Though a man may go out weeping, taking his vessel of seed with him; he will come again in joy, with the corded stems of grain in his arms.
  • Isa 17:10-11 : 10 For you have not given honour to the God of your salvation, and have not kept in mind the Rock of your strength; for this cause you made a garden of Adonis, and put in it the vine-cuttings of a strange god; 11 In the day of your planting you were watching its growth, and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is wasted away in the day of grief and bitter sorrow.
  • Hos 8:7 : 7 For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.

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  • Isa 28:27-28
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    27 For the fitches are not crushed with a sharp instrument, and a cart-wheel is not rolled over the cummin; but the grain of the fitches is hammered out with a stick, and of the cummin with a rod.

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  • Hos 8:7
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    7 For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.

  • Job 24:6
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    6 They get mixed grain from the field, and they take away the late fruit from the vines of those who have wealth.

  • Ps 129:8
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    8 And those who go by do not say, The blessing of the Lord be on you; we give you blessing in the name of the Lord.

  • Deut 23:25
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    25 When you go into your neighbour's field, you may take the heads of grain with your hand; but you may not put your blade to his grain.

  • Joel 1:17
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    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.

  • Lev 19:9
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    9 And when you get in the grain from your land, do not let all the grain be cut from the edges of the field, or take up what has been dropped on the earth after the getting in of the grain.

  • Ps 126:5-6
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    5 Those who put in seed with weeping will get in the grain with cries of joy.

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  • Isa 18:5
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    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.

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    4 He who is watching the wind will not get the seed planted, and he who is looking at the clouds will not get in the grain.

  • Isa 17:5
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    5 And it will be like a man cutting the growth of his grain, pulling together the heads of the grain with his arm; even as when they get in the grain in the valley of Rephaim.

  • John 4:36-37
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    36 He who does the cutting now has his reward; he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together.

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  • Matt 13:29
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    29 But he says, No, for fear that by chance while you take up the evil plants, you may be rooting up the grain with them.

  • Deut 24:19
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    19 When you get in the grain from your field, if some of the grain has been dropped by chance in the field, do not go back and get it, but let it be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow: so that the blessing of the Lord your God may be on all the work of your hands.

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    37 And put seed in the fields and make vine-gardens, to give them fruit.

  • Jer 6:9
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    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.

  • 1 Cor 9:7
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    38 You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it.

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    4 Do not keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it.

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    25 And they will send out the oxen and the sheep on all the hills which before were worked with the spade, ... fear of blackberries and thorns.

  • Ruth 2:15-16
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    15 And when she got ready to take up the grain, Boaz gave his young men orders, saying, Let her take it even from among the cut grain, and say nothing to her.

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    10 Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.

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    25 The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in.

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    13 See, I am crushing you down, as one is crushed under a cart full of grain.

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