Deuteronomy 28:38

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“You shall carry much seed into the field but shall gather little in, for the locust shall consume it.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:37

“If there is famine in the land, if there is plague, blight, mildew, locust, or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in any of their cities; whatever suffering, whatever sickness there is;

Exodus 10:4

For if you refuse to let my people go, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country.

Isaiah 5:10

For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield a mere ephah.

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns; they have tired themselves out but profit nothing. They shall be ashamed of their harvests because of the fierce anger of the Lord.

Joel 1:4

What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten; and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.

Joel 2:25

I will repay you for the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army that I sent against you.

Joel 2:3

Fire devours in front of them, and behind them a flame burns. Before them the land is like the garden of Eden, but after them a desolate wilderness, and nothing escapes them.

Amos 4:9

I struck you with blight and mildew; I laid waste your gardens and your vineyards; the locust devoured your fig trees and your olive trees; yet you did not return to me, says the Lord.

Micah 6:15

You shall sow but not reap; you shall tread olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you shall tread grapes but not drink wine.

Haggai 1:6

You have sown much and harvested little; you eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and you that earn wages earn wages to put them into a bag with holes.

Haggai 1:9

You have looked for much, but it came to little, and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? says the Lord of hosts. Because my house lies in ruins, while all of you hurry off to your own houses.

Malachi 2:3

I will rebuke your offspring and spread dung on your faces, the dung of your offerings, and I will put you out of my presence.

Deuteronomy 28:42

All your trees and the fruit of your ground the cicada shall take over.