Jeremiah 12:13
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13 (A)They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns;
(B)they have tired themselves out but profit nothing.
They shall be ashamed of their[a] harvests
(C)because of the fierce anger of the Lord.”
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 12:13 Hebrew your
Haggai 1:6
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6 (A)You have sown much, and harvested little. (B)You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who (C)earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.
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Micah 6:15
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15 (A)You shall sow, but not reap;
you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil;
you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine.
Deuteronomy 28:38
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38 (A)You shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for (B)the locust shall consume it.
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Isaiah 55:2
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2 (A)Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread,
and your labor for that which does not satisfy?
Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good,
and delight yourselves in rich food.
Leviticus 26:16
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16 then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with (A)wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And (B)you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
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Habakkuk 2:13
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13 Behold, is it not from the Lord of hosts
that (A)peoples labor merely for fire,
and nations weary themselves for nothing?
Jeremiah 4:26
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26 I looked, and behold, the (A)fruitful land was a desert,
and all its cities were laid in ruins
before the Lord, before (B)his fierce anger.
Romans 6:21
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21 (A)But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things (B)of which you are now ashamed? (C)For the end of those things is death.
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Haggai 2:16-17
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16 how did you fare? (A)When[a] one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty. 17 (B)I struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and with mildew and with hail, (C)yet you did not turn to me, declares the Lord.
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- Haggai 2:16 Probable reading (compare Septuagint); Hebrew Lord, since they were. When
Jeremiah 3:23-25
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23 Truly (A)the hills are a delusion,
the orgies[a] on the mountains.
(B)Truly in the Lord our God
is the salvation of Israel.
24 “But from our youth the shameful thing has devoured all for which our fathers labored, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. 25 (C)Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us. For (D)we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”
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- Jeremiah 3:23 Hebrew commotion
Isaiah 31:1-3
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Woe to Those Who Go Down to Egypt
31 Woe[a] to (A)those who go down to Egypt for help
and rely on horses,
who (B)trust in chariots because they are many
and in horsemen because they are very strong,
but (C)do not look to the Holy One of Israel
or consult the Lord!
2 And (D)yet he is wise and brings disaster;
(E)he does not call back his words,
but (F)will arise against the house of the evildoers
and against the helpers of (G)those who work iniquity.
3 The Egyptians are man, and not God,
and their horses (H)are flesh, and not spirit.
When the Lord stretches out his hand,
the helper will stumble, and he who is helped will fall,
and they will all perish together.
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- Isaiah 31:1 Or Ah,
Isaiah 30:1-6
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Do Not Go Down to Egypt
30 “Ah, (A)stubborn children,” declares the Lord,
(B)“who carry out a plan, but not mine,
and who make (C)an alliance,[a] but not of my Spirit,
that they may add sin to sin;
2 (D)who set out to go down to Egypt,
without asking for my direction,
to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh
and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!
3 (E)Therefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame,
and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation.
4 For though his officials are at (F)Zoan
and (G)his envoys reach (H)Hanes,
5 everyone comes to shame
through (I)a people that cannot profit them,
that brings neither help nor profit,
but shame and disgrace.”
6 An (J)oracle on (K)the beasts of (L)the Negeb.
Through a land of trouble and anguish,
from where come the lioness and the lion,
the adder and the (M)flying fiery serpent,
they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys,
and their treasures on the humps of camels,
to a people that cannot profit them.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 30:1 Hebrew who weave a web
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