Jeremiah 12:13

Young's Literal Translation 1862

They sowed wheat, and have thorns reaped, They have become sick -- they profit not, And they have been ashamed of your increases, Because of the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah.

Cross References

Psalm 78:62

And delivereth up to the sword His people, And with His inheritance shewed Himself angry.

Isaiah 55:2

Why do ye weigh money for that which is not bread? And your labour for that which is not for satiety? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat good, And your soul doth delight itself in fatness.

Jeremiah 17:10

I Jehovah do search the heart, try the reins, Even to give to each according to his way, According to the fruit of his doings.

Jeremiah 4:26

I have looked, and lo, The fruitful place `is' a wilderness, And all its cities have been broken down, Because of Jehovah, Because of the fierceness of His anger.

Jeremiah 9:5

And each at his friend they mock, And truth they do not speak, They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, To commit iniquity they have laboured.

Hosea 8:7

For wind they sow, and a hurricane they reap, Stalk it hath none -- a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield -- strangers do swallow it up.

Leviticus 26:16

I also do this to you, and I have appointed over you trouble, the consumption, and the burning fever, consuming eyes, and causing pain of soul; and your seed in vain ye have sowed, and your enemies have eaten it;

Leviticus 26:20

and consumed hath been your strength in vain, and your land doth not give her produce, and the tree of the land doth not give its fruit.

Micah 6:15

Thou -- thou sowest, and thou dost not reap, Thou -- thou treadest the olive, And thou pourest not out oil, And new wine -- and thou drinkest not wine.

Habakkuk 2:13

Lo, is it not from Jehovah of Hosts And peoples are fatigued for fire, And nations for vanity are weary?

Haggai 1:6

Ye have sown much, and brought in little, To eat, and not to satiety, To drink, and not to drunkenness, To clothe, and none hath heat, And he who is hiring himself out, Is hiring himself for a bag pierced through.

Haggai 1:9

Looking for much, and lo, little, And ye brought `it' home, and I blew on it, Wherefore? -- an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, Because of My house that is waste, And ye are running -- each to his house,

Romans 6:21

what fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those `is' death.

Deuteronomy 28:38

`Much seed thou dost take out into the field, and little thou dost gather in, for the locust doth consume it;