Why do you spend silver on what is not food, and your wages on what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and you will enjoy the choicest of foods.
Jeremiah 12:13 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves but have no profit. Be put to shame by your harvests because of the Lord’s burning anger. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They have sown wheat but have reaped thorns; they have worn themselves out but without profit. And they shall be ashamed of your [lack of] harvests and revenues because of the fierce and glowing anger of the Lord. American Standard Version (1901) They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and ye shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of Jehovah. Common English Bible They have sown wheat and reaped weeds; they have worn themselves out for nothing. They will be ashamed of their harvest on account of the LORD’s fierce anger. Catholic Public Domain Version They sowed wheat, but they reaped thorns. They received an inheritance, but it will not benefit them. You will be confounded by your own fruits, because of the wrath of the fury of the Lord. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They have sown wheat and reaped thorns: they have received an inheritance, and it shall not profit them: you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce wrath of the Lord. |
Why do you spend silver on what is not food, and your wages on what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and you will enjoy the choicest of foods.
I, the Lord, examine the mind, I test the heart , to give to each according to his way, according to what his actions deserve.
I looked, and the fertile field was a wilderness. All its cities were torn down because of the Lord and his burning anger.
Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to speak lies; they wear themselves out doing wrong.
Indeed, they sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. There is no standing corn; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it did, foreigners would swallow it up.
then I will do this to you: I will bring terror on you #– #wasting disease and fever that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.
and your strength will be used up for nothing. Your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.
You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourself with oil; and you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.
Is it not from the Lord of Armies that the peoples labour only to fuel the fire and countries exhaust themselves for nothing?
You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough to be satisfied. You drink but never have enough to be happy. You put on clothes but never have enough to get warm. The wage earner puts his wages into a bag with a hole in it.’
‘You expected much, but then it amounted to little. When you brought the harvest to your house, I ruined it. Why? ’ This is the declaration of the Lord of Armies. ‘Because my house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.
So what fruit was produced then from the things you are now ashamed of? The outcome of those things is death.
‘You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because locusts will devour it.