Micah 6:15

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Job 31:8

Then may I sow, but another eat, and may my produce be rooted up!

Jeremiah 12:13

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.

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.

Amos 5:11

Therefore, because you tax the destitute and exact from them levies of grain, Though you have built houses of hewn stone, you shall not live in them; Though you have planted choice vineyards, you shall not drink their wine.

Habakkuk 3:17

For though the fig tree does not blossom, and no fruit appears on the vine, Though the yield of the olive fails and the terraces produce no nourishment, Though the flocks disappear from the fold and there is no herd in the stalls,

Zephaniah 1:13

Their wealth shall be given to plunder and their houses to devastation; They will build houses, but not dwell in them; They will plant vineyards, but not drink their wine.

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.

John 4:37

For here the saying is verified that ‘One sows and another reaps.’

Judges 6:4

encamp against them, and lay waste the produce of the land as far as the outskirts of Gaza, leaving no sustenance in Israel, and no sheep, ox, or donkey.