If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
Deuteronomy 28:38 - King James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it. 更多版本Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You shall carry much seed out into the field and shall gather little in, for the locust shall consume it. [Fulfilled in Hag. 1:6.] American Standard Version (1901) Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it. Common English Bible You might scatter a lot of seed on the field, but you will gather almost nothing because the locusts will eat it all. Catholic Public Domain Version You will sow much seed upon the ground, but you will harvest little. For the locusts will devour everything. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thou shalt cast much seed into the ground, and gather little: because the locusts shall consume all. English Standard Version 2016 You shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for the locust shall consume it. |
If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.
Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.