Genesis 4:12

Good News Translation

If you try to grow crops, the soil will not produce anything; you will be a homeless wanderer on the earth.”

Cross References

Genesis 4:13

And Cain said to the Lord, “This punishment is too hard for me to bear.

Genesis 4:14

You are driving me off the land and away from your presence. I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth, and anyone who finds me will kill me.”

Psalm 107:34

He made rich soil become a salty wasteland because of the wickedness of those who lived there.

Psalm 109:10

May his children be homeless beggars; may they be driven from the ruins they live in!

Proverbs 28:17

Someone guilty of murder is digging his own grave as fast as he can. Don't try to stop him.

Hosea 9:17

The God I serve will reject his people, because they have not listened to him. They will become wanderers among the nations.

Joel 1:10

The fields are bare; the ground mourns because the grain is destroyed, the grapes are dried up, and the olive trees are withered.

Leviticus 26:17

I will turn against you, so that you will be defeated, and those who hate you will rule over you; you will be so terrified that you will run when no one is chasing you.

Leviticus 26:20

All your hard work will do you no good, because your land will not produce crops and the trees will not bear fruit.

Leviticus 26:36

“I will make those of you who are in exile so terrified that the sound of a leaf blowing in the wind will make you run. You will run as if you were being pursued in battle, and you will fall when there is no enemy near you.

Romans 8:20

For creation was condemned to lose its purpose, not of its own will, but because God willed it to be so. Yet there was the hope

Deuteronomy 28:15

“But if you disobey the Lord your God and do not faithfully keep all his commands and laws that I am giving you today, all these evil things will happen to you: