Deuteronomy 28:38 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³⁸ Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁸ Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁸ You shall carry much seed out into the field and shall gather little in, for the locust shall consume it. [Fulfilled in Hag. 1:6.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁸ Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.

Common English Bible

³⁸ You might scatter a lot of seed on the field, but you will gather almost nothing because the locusts will eat it all.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁸ You will sow much seed upon the ground, but you will harvest little. For the locusts will devour everything.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁸ Thou shalt cast much seed into the ground, and gather little: because the locusts shall consume all.

Deuteronomy 28:38 Cross References

1 Kings 8:37

If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting or mildew, locust or caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;

Exodus 10:4

Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow will I bring locusts into thy border:

Isaiah 5:10

For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.

Jeremiah 12:13

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 the LORD.

Joel 1:4

That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.

Joel 2:25

And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

Joel 2:3

A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and none hath escaped them.

Amos 4:9

I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: the multitude of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees hath the palmerworm devoured: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

Micah 6:15

Thou shalt sow, but shalt not reap: thou shalt tread the olives, but shalt not anoint thee with oil; and the vintage, but shalt not drink the wine.

Haggai 1:6

Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

Haggai 1:9

Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that lieth waste, while ye run every man to his own house.

Malachi 2:3

Behold, I will rebuke the seed for your sake, and will spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your sacrifices; and ye shall be taken away with it.

Deuteronomy 28:42

All thy trees and the fruit of thy ground shall the locust possess.