Micah 7:13
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13 But the earth will be desolate
because of its inhabitants,
for the fruit of their doings.(A)
Isaiah 3:10-11
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10 Tell the innocent how fortunate they are,
for they shall eat the fruit of their labors.(A)
11 Woe to the guilty! How unfortunate they are,
for what their hands have done shall be done to them.(B)
Jeremiah 25:11
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11 This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
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Jeremiah 17:10
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10 I the Lord test the mind
and search the heart,
to give to all according to their ways,
according to the fruit of their doings.(A)
Galatians 6:7-8
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7 Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for you reap whatever you sow.(A) 8 If you sow to your own flesh, you will reap corruption from the flesh, but if you sow to the Spirit, you will reap eternal life from the Spirit.(B)
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Luke 21:20-24
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The Destruction of Jerusalem Foretold
20 “When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near.[a](A) 21 Then those in Judea must flee to the mountains, and those inside the city must leave it, and those out in the country must not enter it,(B) 22 for these are days of vengeance, as a fulfillment of all that is written.(C) 23 Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great distress on the earth and wrath against this people; 24 they will fall by the edge of the sword and be taken away as captives among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled on by the nations, until the times of the nations are fulfilled.(D)
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- 21.20 Or is at hand
Micah 6:13
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- 6.13 Gk Syr Vg: Heb have made sick
Micah 3:12
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12 Therefore because of you
Zion shall be plowed as a field;
Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins,
and the mountain of the temple a wooded height.(A)
Daniel 4:26-27
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26 As it was commanded to leave the stump and roots of the tree, your kingdom shall be reestablished for you from the time that you learn that Heaven is sovereign.(A) 27 Therefore, O king, may my counsel be acceptable to you: atone for[a] your sins with righteousness and your iniquities with mercy to the oppressed, so that your prosperity may be prolonged.”(B)
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- 4.27 Aram break off
Jeremiah 32:19
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19 great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of mortals, rewarding all according to their ways and according to the fruit of their doings.(A)
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Jeremiah 21:14
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14 I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings,
says the Lord;
I will kindle a fire in its forest,
and it shall devour all that is around it.(A)
Isaiah 24:3-8
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3 The earth shall be utterly laid waste and utterly despoiled,
for the Lord has spoken this word.(A)
4 The earth dries up and withers;
the world languishes and withers;
the heavens languish together with the earth.
5 The earth lies polluted
under its inhabitants,
for they have transgressed laws,
violated the statutes,
broken the everlasting covenant.(B)
6 Therefore a curse devours the earth,
and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt;
therefore the inhabitants of the earth dwindled,
and few people are left.(C)
7 The wine dries up;
the vine languishes;
all the merry-hearted sigh.(D)
8 The mirth of the timbrels is stilled;
the noise of the jubilant has ceased;
the mirth of the lyre is stilled.(E)
Isaiah 6:11-13
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11 Then I said, “How long, O Lord?” And he said,
“Until cities lie waste
without inhabitant,
and houses without people,
and the land is utterly desolate;(A)
12 until the Lord sends everyone far away,
and vast is the emptiness in the midst of the land.(B)
13 Even if a tenth part remain in it,
it will be burned again,
like a terebinth or an oak
whose stump remains standing
when it is felled.”[a]
(The holy seed is its stump.)(C)
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- 6.13 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Proverbs 31:31
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31 Give her a share in the fruit of her hands,
and let her works praise her in the city gates.
Proverbs 5:22
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22 The iniquities of the wicked ensnare them,
and they are caught in the coils of their sin.(A)
Proverbs 1:31
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31 therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way
and be sated with their own devices.(A)
Job 4:8
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8 As I have seen, those who plow iniquity
and sow trouble reap the same.(A)
Leviticus 26:33-39
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33 And you I will scatter among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword against you; your land shall be a desolation and your cities a waste.(A)
34 “Then the land shall enjoy[a] its Sabbath years as long as it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies; then the land shall rest and enjoy[b] its Sabbath years.(B) 35 As long as it lies desolate, it shall have the rest it did not have on your Sabbaths when you were living on it. 36 And as for those of you who survive, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; the sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall though no one pursues.(C) 37 They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though no one pursues, and you shall have no power to stand against your enemies.(D) 38 You shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall devour you.(E) 39 And those of you who survive shall languish in the land of your enemies because of their iniquities; they shall also languish because of the iniquities of their ancestors.(F)
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