Leviticus 26:20
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20 All your work will be for nothing, for your land will yield no crops, and your trees will bear no fruit.
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Isaiah 49:4
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4 I replied, “But my work seems so useless!
I have spent my strength for nothing and to no purpose.
Yet I leave it all in the Lord’s hand;
I will trust God for my reward.”
Psalm 127:1
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Psalm 127
A song for pilgrims ascending to Jerusalem. A psalm of Solomon.
1 Unless the Lord builds a house,
the work of the builders is wasted.
Unless the Lord protects a city,
guarding it with sentries will do no good.
Deuteronomy 11:17
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17 If you do, the Lord’s anger will burn against you. He will shut up the sky and hold back the rain, and the ground will fail to produce its harvests. Then you will quickly die in that good land the Lord is giving you.
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Leviticus 26:4
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4 I will send you the seasonal rains. The land will then yield its crops, and the trees of the field will produce their fruit.
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Galatians 4:11
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11 I fear for you. Perhaps all my hard work with you was for nothing.
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1 Corinthians 3:6
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6 I planted the seed in your hearts, and Apollos watered it, but it was God who made it grow.
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Haggai 2:16
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16 When you hoped for a twenty-bushel crop, you harvested only ten. When you expected to draw fifty gallons from the winepress, you found only twenty.
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Haggai 1:9-11
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9 You hoped for rich harvests, but they were poor. And when you brought your harvest home, I blew it away. Why? Because my house lies in ruins, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, while all of you are busy building your own fine houses. 10 It’s because of you that the heavens withhold the dew and the earth produces no crops. 11 I have called for a drought on your fields and hills—a drought to wither the grain and grapes and olive trees and all your other crops, a drought to starve you and your livestock and to ruin everything you have worked so hard to get.”
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Habakkuk 2:13
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13 Has not the Lord of Heaven’s Armies promised
that the wealth of nations will turn to ashes?
They work so hard,
but all in vain!
Isaiah 17:11
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11 They may sprout on the day you set them out;
yes, they may blossom on the very morning you plant them,
but you will never pick any grapes from them.
Your only harvest will be a load of grief and unrelieved pain.
Psalm 107:34
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34 He turns the fruitful land into salty wastelands,
because of the wickedness of those who live there.
Job 31:40
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40 then let thistles grow on that land instead of wheat,
and weeds instead of barley.”
Job’s words are ended.
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Deuteronomy 28:42
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42 Swarms of insects will destroy your trees and crops.
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Deuteronomy 28:38-40
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38 “You will plant much but harvest little, for locusts will eat your crops. 39 You will plant vineyards and care for them, but you will not drink the wine or eat the grapes, for worms will destroy the vines. 40 You will grow olive trees throughout your land, but you will never use the olive oil, for the fruit will drop before it ripens.
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Deuteronomy 28:18
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18 Your children and your crops
will be cursed.
The offspring of your herds and flocks
will be cursed.
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