Genesis 4:12

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

When you try to cultivate the ground it will no longer yield its best for you. You will be a homeless wanderer on the earth.”

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  • Lev 26:36 : 36 “‘As for the ones who remain among you, I will bring despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a blowing leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one who flees the sword and fall down even though there is no pursuer.
  • Deut 28:23-24 : 23 The sky above your heads will be bronze and the earth beneath you iron. 24 The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust; it will come down on you from the sky until you are destroyed.
  • Deut 28:65-66 : 65 Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the LORD will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair. 66 Your life will hang in doubt before you; you will be terrified by night and day and will have no certainty of surviving from one day to the next.
  • Ps 109:10 : 10 May his children roam around begging, asking for handouts as they leave their ruined home!
  • Jer 20:3-4 : 3 But the next day Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks. When he did, Jeremiah said to him,“The LORD’s name for you is not‘Pashhur’ but‘Terror is Everywhere.’ 4 For the LORD says,‘I will make both you and your friends terrified of what will happen to you. You will see all of them die by the swords of their enemies. I will hand all the people of Judah over to the king of Babylon. He will carry some of them away into exile in Babylon and he will kill others of them with the sword.
  • Hos 9:17 : 17 My God will reject them, for they have not obeyed him; so they will be fugitives among the nations.
  • Rom 8:20 : 20 For the creation was subjected to futility– not willingly but because of God who subjected it– in hope
  • Gen 3:17-18 : 17 But to Adam he said,“Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you,‘You must not eat from it,’ the ground is cursed because of you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. 18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, but you will eat the grain of the field.
  • Gen 4:14 : 14 Look! You are driving me off the land today, and I must hide from your presence. I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth; whoever finds me will kill me.”
  • Lev 26:20 : 20 Your strength will be used up in vain, your land will not give its yield, and the trees of the land will not produce their fruit.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 4:5-11
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    84%

    5but with Cain and his offering he was not pleased. So Cain became very angry, and his expression was downcast.

    6Then the LORD said to Cain,“Why are you angry, and why is your expression downcast?

    7Is it not true that if you do what is right, you will be fine? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. It desires to dominate you, but you must subdue it.”

    8Cain said to his brother Abel,“Let’s go out to the field.” While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

    9Then the LORD said to Cain,“Where is your brother Abel?” And he replied,“I don’t know! Am I my brother’s guardian?”

    10But the LORD said,“What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground!

    11So now, you are banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

  • Gen 4:13-16
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    13Then Cain said to the LORD,“My punishment is too great to endure!

    14Look! You are driving me off the land today, and I must hide from your presence. I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth; whoever finds me will kill me.”

    15But the LORD said to him,“All right then, if anyone kills Cain, Cain will be avenged seven times as much.” Then the LORD put a special mark on Cain so that no one who found him would strike him down.

    16So Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

  • Gen 3:16-19
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    76%

    16To the woman he said,“I will greatly increase your labor pains; with pain you will give birth to children. You will want to control your husband, but he will dominate you.”

    17But to Adam he said,“Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you,‘You must not eat from it,’ the ground is cursed because of you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

    18It will produce thorns and thistles for you, but you will eat the grain of the field.

    19By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”

  • Gen 4:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2Then she gave birth to his brother Abel. Abel took care of the flocks, while Cain cultivated the ground.

    3At the designated time Cain brought some of the fruit of the ground for an offering to the LORD.

  • Gen 3:23
    73%

    23So the LORD God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.

  • Deut 28:16-20
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    72%

    16You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the field.

    17Your basket and your mixing bowl will be cursed.

    18Your children will be cursed, as well as the produce of your soil, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.

    19You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

    20Curses by Disease and Drought“The LORD will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you in everything you undertake until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me.

  • Gen 3:14
    71%

    14The LORD God said to the serpent,“Because you have done this, cursed are you above all the cattle and all the living creatures of the field! On your belly you will crawl and dust you will eat all the days of your life.

  • Lev 26:20
    70%

    20Your strength will be used up in vain, your land will not give its yield, and the trees of the land will not produce their fruit.

  • Gen 9:25
    69%

    25So he said,“Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves he will be to his brothers.”

  • 1 John 3:12
    68%

    12not like Cain who was of the evil one and brutally murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, but his brother’s were righteous.

  • Deut 28:30
    68%

    30You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.

  • Job 18:4
    68%

    4You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger, will the earth be abandoned for your sake? Or will a rock be moved from its place?

  • Deut 28:25
    68%

    25Curses by Defeat and Deportation“The LORD will allow you to be struck down before your enemies; you will attack them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions and will become an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • Gen 27:40
    67%

    40You will live by your sword but you will serve your brother. When you grow restless, you will tear off his yoke from your neck.”

  • Deut 28:33
    67%

    33As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives.

  • Mic 6:15
    67%

    15You will plant crops, but will not harvest them; you will squeeze oil from the olives, but you will have no oil to rub on your bodies; you will squeeze juice from the grapes, but you will have no wine to drink.

  • Gen 9:6
    67%

    6“Whoever sheds human blood, by other humans must his blood be shed; for in God’s image God has made humankind.”