Deuteronomy 28:38
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.”
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“You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`Much seed thou dost take out into the field, and little thou dost gather in, for the locust doth consume it;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Deuteronomy 28:38 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 10:14The locusts swarmed across the land and settled over the entire territory of Egypt. Never before had there been so many locusts, and never again will there be.
- Isaiah 5:10For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”
- Joel 1:4What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.
- Joel 2:3Before them a fire devours, and behind them a flame scorches. The land before them is like the Garden of Eden, but behind them, it is like a desert wasteland— surely nothing will escape them.
- Joel 2:25I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts— the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust— My great army that I sent against you.
- Amos 4:9“I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
- Amos 7:1This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts just after the king’s harvest, as the late spring crop was coming up.
- Micah 6:15You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.
- Haggai 1:6You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.”
- Haggai 1:9You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.
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