Genesis 4:12 - New International Version (Anglicised)

¹² When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² when thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength; you shall be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth [in perpetual exile, a degraded outcast].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² when thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee its strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth.

Common English Bible

¹² When you farm the fertile land, it will no longer grow anything for you, and you will become a roving nomad on the earth.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² When you work it, it will not give you its fruit; a vagrant and a fugitive shall you be upon the land."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² When thou shalt till it, it shall not yield to thee its fruit: a fugitive and vagabond shalt thou be upon the earth.

Genesis 4:12 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 4:13

Cain said to the Lord, ‘My punishment is more than I can bear.

Genesis 4:14

Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.’

Psalm 107:34

and fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the wickedness of those who lived there.

Psalm 109:10

May his children be wandering beggars; may they be driven from their ruined homes.

Proverbs 28:17

Anyone tormented by the guilt of murder will seek refuge in the grave; let no-one hold them back.

Hosea 9:17

My God will reject them because they have not obeyed him; they will be wanderers among the nations.

Joel 1:10

The fields are ruined, the ground is dried up; the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the olive oil fails.

Leviticus 26:17

I will set my face against you so that you will be defeated by your enemies; those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even when no-one is pursuing you.

Leviticus 26:20

Your strength will be spent in vain, because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of your land yield their fruit.

Leviticus 26:36

‘ “As for those of you who are left, I will make their hearts so fearful in the lands of their enemies that the sound of a wind-blown leaf will put them to flight. They will run as though fleeing from the sword, and they will fall, even though no-one is pursuing them.

Romans 8:20

For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope

Deuteronomy 28:15

However, if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you: