Jeremiah 12:13

Bible in Basic English 1965

Though good grain was planted, they have got in thorns: they have given themselves pain without profit: they will be shamed on account of their produce, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.

Cross References

Psalm 78:62

He gave his people up to the sword, and was angry with his heritage.

Isaiah 55:2

Why do you give your money for what is not bread, and the fruit of your work for what will not give you pleasure? Give ear to me, so that your food may be good, and you may have the best in full measure.

Jeremiah 17:10

I the Lord am the searcher of the heart, the tester of the thoughts, so that I may give to every man the reward of his ways, in keeping with the fruit of his doings.

Jeremiah 4:26

Looking, I saw that the fertile field was a waste, and all its towns were broken down before the Lord and before his burning wrath.

Jeremiah 9:5

Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back.

Hosea 8:7

For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.

Leviticus 26:16

This will I do to you: I will put fear in your hearts, even wasting disease and burning pain, drying up the eyes and making the soul feeble, and you will get no profit from your seed, for your haters will take it for food.

Leviticus 26:20

And your strength will be used up without profit; for your land will not give her increase and the trees of the field will not give their fruit.

Micah 6:15

You will put in seed, but you will not get in the grain; you will be crushing olives, but your bodies will not be rubbed with the oil; and you will get in the grapes, but you will have no wine.

Habakkuk 2:13

See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?

Haggai 1:6

Much has been planted, but little got in; you take food, but have not enough; you take drink, but are not full; you are clothed, but no one is warm; and he who gets payment for his work, gets it to put it into a bag full of holes.

Haggai 1:9

You were looking for much, and it came to little; and when you got it into your house, I took it away with a breath. Why? says the Lord of armies. Because of my house which is a waste, while every man takes care of the house which is his.

Romans 6:21

What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.

Deuteronomy 28:38

You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it.