Isaiah 17:11

New English Translation

The day you begin cultivating, you do what you can to make it grow; the morning you begin planting, you do what you can to make it sprout. Yet the harvest will disappear in the day of disease and incurable pain.

Cross References

Job 4:8

Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

Psalm 90:6

in the morning it glistens and sprouts up; at evening time it withers and dries up.

Isaiah 17:5

It will be as when one gathers the grain harvest, and his hand gleans the ear of grain. It will be like one gathering the ears of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy lies. The priests exercise power by their own authority. And my people love to have it this way. But they will not be able to help you when the time of judgment comes!

Hosea 8:7

They sow the wind, and so they will reap the whirlwind! The stalk does not have any standing grain; it will not produce any flour. Even if it were to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it all up.

Hosea 9:16

Ephraim will be struck down – their root will be dried up; they will not yield any fruit. Even if they do bear children, I will kill their precious offspring.

Joel 1:17

The grains of seed have shriveled beneath their shovels. Storehouses have been decimated and granaries have been torn down, for the grain has dried up.

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.

Romans 2:5

But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed!

Deuteronomy 28:39

You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink wine or gather in grapes, because worms will eat them.