Isaiah 17:11

A Conservative Version

In the day of thy planting thou hedge it in, and in the morning thou make thy seed to blossom. But the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

Cross References

Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The blade shall yield no meal. If so be it yields, strangers shall swallow it up.

Job 4:8

According as I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

Romans 2:5

But according to thy hardness, and thy impenitent heart, thou store up wrath to thyself in the day of wrath, and revelation, and righteous judgment of God,

Hosea 9:16

Ephraim is smitten. Their root is dried up. They shall bear no fruit. Yea, though they bring forth, yet I will kill the beloved fruit of their womb.

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means. And my people love to have it so. And what will ye do in the end thereof?

Psalm 90:6

In the morning it flourishes, and grows up. In the evening it is cut down, and withers.

Leviticus 26:20

and your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.

Deuteronomy 28:39

Thou shall plant vineyards and dress them, but thou shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather, for the worm shall eat them.

Isaiah 17:5

And it shall be as when the harvestman gathers the standing grain, and his arm reaps the ears. Yea, it shall be as when he gleans ears in the valley of Rephaim.

Joel 1:17

The seeds rot under their clods. The garners are laid desolate. The barns are broken down. For the grain is withered.