Jeremiah 12:13

New American Bible - revised edition

They have sown wheat and reaped thorns, they have tired themselves out for no purpose; They are shamed by their harvest, the burning anger of the Lord. Judah’s Neighbors.

Cross References

Psalm 78:62

God delivered his people to the sword; he was enraged against his heritage.

Isaiah 55:2

Why spend your money for what is not bread; your wages for what does not satisfy? Only listen to me, and you shall eat well, you shall delight in rich fare.

Jeremiah 17:10

I, the Lord, explore the mind and test the heart, Giving to all according to their ways, according to the fruit of their deeds.

Jeremiah 4:26

I looked—the garden land was a wilderness, with all its cities destroyed before the Lord, before his blazing anger.

Jeremiah 9:5

Violence upon violence, deceit upon deceit: They refuse to know me— oracle of the Lord.

Hosea 8:7

When they sow the wind, they will reap the whirlwind; The stalk of grain that forms no head can yield no flour; Even if it could, strangers would swallow it.

Leviticus 26:16

then I, in turn, will do this to you: I will bring terror upon you—with consumption and fever to dim the eyes and sap the life. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will consume the crop.

Leviticus 26:20

so that your strength will be spent in vain; your land will bear no crops, and its trees no fruit.

Micah 6:15

You shall sow, yet not reap, tread out the olive, yet pour no oil, crush the grapes, yet drink no wine.

Habakkuk 2:13

Is this not from the Lord of hosts: peoples toil for what the flames consume, and nations grow weary for nothing!

Haggai 1:6

You have sown much, but have brought in little; you have eaten, but have not been satisfied; You have drunk, but have not become intoxicated; you have clothed yourselves, but have not been warmed; And the hired worker labors for a bag full of holes.

Haggai 1:9

You expected much, but it came to little; and what you brought home, I blew away. Why is this?—oracle of the Lord of hosts— Because my house is the one which lies in ruins, while each of you runs to your own house.

Romans 6:21

But what profit did you get then from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Deuteronomy 28:38

Though you take out seed to your field, you will harvest but little, for the locusts will devour it.