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Micah 6:15

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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

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then others can eat my harvest and uproot my crops.

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

I will punish you terribly, and you will be ruined. You will be struck with incurable diseases and with fever that leads to blindness and depression. Your enemies will eat the crops you plant,

All your hard work will be for nothing—and there will be no harvest of grain or fruit.

you abuse the poor and demand heavy taxes from them. You have built expensive homes, but you won't enjoy them; you have planted vineyards, but you will get no wine.

Fig trees may no longer bloom, or vineyards produce grapes; olive trees may be fruitless, and harvest time a failure; sheep pens may be empty, and cattle stalls vacant—

Their possessions will be taken, their homes left in ruins. They won't get to live in the houses they build, or drink wine from the grapes in their own vineyards.

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.

So the saying proves true, “Some plant the seed, and others harvest the crop.”

They rode in on their camels, set up their tents, and then let their livestock eat the crops as far as the town of Gaza. The Midianites stole food, sheep, cattle, and donkeys. Like a swarm of locusts, they could not be counted, and they ruined the land wherever they went.




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