Genesis 4:12

Webster's Bible (1833)

From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth."

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  • Lev 26:36 : 36 "'As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies: and the sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword; and they will fall when no one pursues.
  • Deut 28:23-24 : 23 Your sky that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth that is under you shall be iron. 24 Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust: from the sky shall it come down on you, until you are destroyed.
  • Deut 28:65-66 : 65 Among these nations shall you find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of your foot: but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul; 66 and your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life.
  • Ps 109:10 : 10 Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.
  • Jer 20:3-4 : 3 It happened on the next day, that Pashhur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah to him, Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib. 4 For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself, and to all your friends; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes shall see it; and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall kill them with the sword.
  • Hos 9:17 : 17 My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him; And they will be wanderers among the nations.
  • Rom 8:20 : 20 For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
  • Gen 3:17-18 : 17 To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. 18 Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.
  • Gen 4:14 : 14 Behold, you have driven me out this day from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me."
  • Lev 26:20 : 20 and your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won't yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 4:5-11
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    5but he didn't respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.

    6Yahweh said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?

    7If you do well, will it not be lifted up? If you don't do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it."

    8Cain said to Abel, his brother, "Let's go into the field." It happened, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.

    9Yahweh said to Cain, "Where is Abel, your brother?" He said, "I don't know. Am I my brother's keeper?"

    10Yahweh said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.

    11Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

  • Gen 4:13-16
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    13Cain said to Yahweh, "My punishment is greater than I can bear.

    14Behold, you have driven me out this day from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me."

    15Yahweh said to him, "Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should strike him.

    16Cain went out from Yahweh's presence, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

  • Gen 3:16-19
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    76%

    16To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."

    17To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

    18Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.

    19By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

  • Gen 4:2-3
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    74%

    2Again she gave birth, to Cain's brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

    3As time passed, it happened that Cain brought an offering to Yahweh from the fruit of the ground.

  • Gen 3:23
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    23Therefore Yahweh God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

  • Deut 28:16-20
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    16Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.

    17Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough.

    18Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.

    19Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

    20Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.

  • Gen 3:14
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    14Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above every animal of the field. On your belly shall you go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.

  • Lev 26:20
    70%

    20and your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won't yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

  • Gen 9:25
    69%

    25He said, "Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants will he be to his brothers."

  • 1 John 3:12
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    12unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

  • Deut 28:30
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    30You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use the fruit of it.

  • Job 18:4
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    4You who tear yourself in your anger, Shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

  • Deut 28:25
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    25Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven ways before them: and you shall be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • Gen 27:40
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    40By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, That you shall shake his yoke from off your neck."

  • Deut 28:33
    67%

    33The fruit of your ground, and all your labors, shall a nation which you don't know eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always;

  • Mic 6:15
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    15You will sow, but won't reap. You will tread the olives, but won't anoint yourself with oil; And crush grapes, but won't drink the wine.

  • Gen 9:6
    67%

    6Whoever sheds man's blood, by man will his blood be shed, for in the image of God made he man.