Jeremiah 12:12-14

Revised Standard Version

¹² Upon all the bare heights in the desert
    destroyers have come;
for the sword of the Lord devours
    from one end of the land to the other;
    no flesh has peace.
¹³ They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns,
    they have tired themselves out but profit nothing.
They shall be ashamed of their^[a] harvests
    because of the fierce anger of the Lord.”