Deuteronomy 28:38

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

You will plant a lot of seed, but gather a small harvest, because locusts will eat your crops.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:37

Sometimes the crops may dry up or rot or be eaten by locusts or grasshoppers, and your people will be starving. Sometimes enemies may surround their towns, or your people will become sick with deadly diseases.

Exodus 10:4

Do this by tomorrow, or I will cover your country with so many locusts

Isaiah 5:10

Four hectares of grapevines will produce only twenty-seven litres of juice, and a hundred and eighty litres of seed will produce merely eighteen litres of grain.

Jeremiah 12:13

My people, you planted wheat, but because I was furious, I let only weeds grow. You wore yourselves out for nothing!

Joel 1:4

Swarm after swarm of locusts has attacked our crops, eating everything in sight.

Joel 2:25

I, the LORD your God, will make up for the losses caused by those swarms and swarms of locusts I sent to attack you.

Joel 2:3

Fiery flames surround them; no one escapes. Before they invaded, the land was like Eden; now only a desert remains.

Amos 4:9

I dried up your grain fields; your gardens and vineyards turned brown. Locusts ate your fig trees and olive orchards, but even then you rejected me. I, the LORD, have spoken!

Micah 6:15

You won't harvest what you plant or use the oil from your olive trees or drink the wine from grapes you grow.

Haggai 1:6

You harvest less than you plant, you never have enough to eat or drink, your clothes don't keep you warm, and your wages are stored in bags full of holes.

Haggai 1:9

You expected much, but received only a little. And when you brought it home, I made that little disappear. Why have I done this? It's because you hurry off to build your own houses, while my temple is still in ruins.

Malachi 2:3

I will punish your descendants and rub your faces in the manure from your animal sacrifices, and then be done with you.

Deuteronomy 28:42

Locusts will eat your crops and strip your trees of leaves and fruit.