Genesis 4:12

New English Translation

When you try to cultivate the ground it will no longer yield its best for you. You will be a homeless wanderer on the earth.”

Cross References

Genesis 4:13

Then Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is too great to endure!

Genesis 4:14

Look! You are driving me off the land today, and I must hide from your presence. I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth; whoever finds me will kill me.”

Psalm 107:34

and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.

Psalm 109:10

May his children roam around begging, asking for handouts as they leave their ruined home!

Proverbs 28:17

The one who is tormented by the murder of another will flee to the pit; let no one support him.

Hosea 9:17

My God will reject them, for they have not obeyed him; so they will be fugitives among the nations.

Joel 1:10

The crops of the fields have been destroyed. The ground is in mourning because the grain has perished. The fresh wine has dried up; the olive oil languishes.

Leviticus 26:17

I will set my face against you. You will be struck down before your enemies, those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when there is no one pursuing you.

Leviticus 26:20

Your strength will be used up in vain, your land will not give its yield, and the trees of the land will not produce their fruit.

Leviticus 26:36

“‘As for the ones who remain among you, I will bring despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a blowing leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one who flees the sword and fall down even though there is no pursuer.

Romans 8:20

For the creation was subjected to futility – not willingly but because of God who subjected it – in hope

Deuteronomy 28:15

“But if you ignore the Lord your God and are not careful to keep all his commandments and statutes I am giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you in full force: