Deuteronomy 28:38

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You will sow much seed in the field but gather little, because locusts will consume it.

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  • Joel 1:4 : 4 What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten; and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.
  • 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.
  • Hag 1:6 : 6 You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but are never satisfied. You drink but never have enough to be filled. You put on clothes but are not warm. The one who earns wages earns them to put into a bag with holes.
  • Joel 2:25 : 25 I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten—the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust—my great army that I sent among you.
  • Amos 4:9 : 9 I struck you with blight and mildew; the locust devoured your many gardens, vineyards, fig trees, and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,' declares the LORD.
  • Amos 7:1-2 : 1 This is what the Lord God showed me: He was forming a swarm of locusts at the beginning of the late crop, after the royal harvest. 2 When they had finished eating the vegetation of the land, I said, 'Lord God, please forgive! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!'
  • Joel 2:3 : 3 Before them, fire devours; behind them, flames blaze. The land before them is like the Garden of Eden, but behind them, it is a desolate wilderness—nothing escapes them.
  • Exod 10:14-15 : 14 The locusts came up over the entire land of Egypt and settled in all the territory of the land in such large numbers that they had never been seen before, nor will they ever be seen again. 15 They covered the face of the whole land, so that it was darkened. They devoured every plant in the land, all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Nothing green remained on a tree or plant in all the land of Egypt.
  • Isa 5:10 : 10 For ten acres of vineyard will yield only a single bath of wine, and a homer of seed will produce merely an ephah of grain.

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    39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink their wine or gather their grapes, for worms will eat them.

    40 You will have olive trees throughout your territory, but you will not anoint yourself with oil, for your olives will drop off prematurely.

    41 You will have sons and daughters, but they will not remain with you, because they will go into captivity.

    42 Swarms of insects will take possession of all your trees and the produce of your land.

  • Nah 3:15-16
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    15 There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down. It will consume you like the young locusts. Multiply yourselves like locusts; increase yourselves like swarming locusts.

    16 You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of the heavens. The young locust strips the land and flies away.

  • Deut 28:37
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    37 You will become an object of horror, a byword, and a taunt among all the peoples to which the LORD will drive you.

  • Deut 28:33
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    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.

  • Mic 6:14-15
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    14 You will eat but not be satisfied, and your emptiness will remain within you. You will store up but not save, and what you do save, I will give over to the sword.

    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 28:51
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    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.

  • Isa 17:11
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    11 Though on the day you plant them you make them grow, and in the morning you make your seed blossom, yet the harvest will be a heap on the day of grief and incurable pain.

  • Joel 2:25
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    25 I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten—the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust—my great army that I sent among you.

  • Lev 26:20
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    20 Your strength will be spent in vain, because your land will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

  • Isa 33:4
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    4 Your plunder will be gathered like the gathering of locusts; people will swarm over it like locusts swarming.

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    7 For they sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it will yield no flour. Even if it does produce, strangers will swallow it up.

  • Jer 5:17
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    17 They will consume your harvest and your bread, devour your sons and daughters, eat your flocks and herds, and consume your vines and fig trees. With the sword, they will destroy your fortified cities in which you trust.

  • Deut 28:24-25
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    24 The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will come down upon you from the sky until you are destroyed.

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    13 They have sown wheat but reaped thorns; they have exhausted themselves to no profit. Be ashamed of your harvests because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

  • Lev 26:16
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    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.

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    30 I will increase the fruit of the trees and the crops of the field so that you will no longer endure the reproach of famine among the nations.

  • Ps 78:46
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    46 He gave their crops to the caterpillar and the fruit of their labor to the locust.

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    4 What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten; and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.

  • Deut 28:16-18
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    16 Cursed will you be in the city, and cursed will you be in the field.

    17 Cursed will be your basket and your kneading bowl.

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    9 When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.

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    5 Your threshing will continue until grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing, and you will eat your bread to the full and live securely in your land.

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    17 The seeds shrivel beneath their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the granaries are broken down, for the grain has dried up.

  • Joel 1:11
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    11 Be ashamed, you farmers; wail, you vinekeepers, for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.

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    38 You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.

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  • Lev 25:20
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    20 If you say, 'What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow or gather our crops?'

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    62 You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God.

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    29 And this will be a sign for you: This year you will eat what grows by itself, and in the second year, what springs from that. But in the third year, sow and reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.

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    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.

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  • Deut 28:20-21
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    20 The LORD will send curses, confusion, and rebuke in everything you undertake until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil of your deeds, by which you have forsaken Me.

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