Deuteronomy 28:30
New Living Translation
30 “You will be engaged to a woman, but another man will sleep with her. You will build a house, but someone else will live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will never enjoy its fruit.
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Amos 5:11
New Living Translation
11 You trample the poor,
stealing their grain through taxes and unfair rent.
Therefore, though you build beautiful stone houses,
you will never live in them.
Though you plant lush vineyards,
you will never drink wine from them.
Jeremiah 8:10
New Living Translation
10 I will give their wives to others
and their farms to strangers.
From the least to the greatest,
their lives are ruled by greed.
Yes, even my prophets and priests are like that.
They are all frauds.
Job 31:10
New Living Translation
10 then let my wife serve[a] another man;
let other men sleep with her.
Footnotes
- 31:10 Hebrew grind for.
Zephaniah 1:13
New Living Translation
13 So their property will be plundered,
their homes will be ransacked.
They will build new homes
but never live in them.
They will plant vineyards
but never drink wine from them.
Micah 6:15
New Living Translation
15 You will plant crops
but not harvest them.
You will press your olives
but not get enough oil to anoint yourselves.
You will trample the grapes
but get no juice to make your wine.
Hosea 4:2
New Living Translation
2 You make vows and break them;
you kill and steal and commit adultery.
There is violence everywhere—
one murder after another.
Lamentations 5:2
New Living Translation
2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
our homes to foreigners.
Jeremiah 12:13
New Living Translation
13 My people have planted wheat
but are harvesting thorns.
They have worn themselves out,
but it has done them no good.
They will harvest a crop of shame
because of the fierce anger of the Lord.”
Isaiah 5:9-10
New Living Translation
9 But I have heard the Lord of Heaven’s Armies
swear a solemn oath:
“Many houses will stand deserted;
even beautiful mansions will be empty.
10 Ten acres[a] of vineyard will not produce even six gallons[b] of wine.
Ten baskets of seed will yield only one basket[c] of grain.”
Deuteronomy 20:6-7
New Living Translation
6 Has anyone here just planted a vineyard but not yet eaten any of its fruit? If so, you may go home! You might die in battle, and someone else would eat the first fruit. 7 Has anyone here just become engaged to a woman but not yet married her? Well, you may go home and get married! You might die in the battle, and someone else would marry her.’
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Isaiah 65:21-22
New Living Translation
21 In those days people will live in the houses they build
and eat the fruit of their own vineyards.
22 Unlike the past, invaders will not take their houses
and confiscate their vineyards.
For my people will live as long as trees,
and my chosen ones will have time to enjoy their hard-won gains.
Job 3:18
New Living Translation
18 Even captives are at ease in death,
with no guards to curse them.
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