Genesis 4:12

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Summary

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.

It

A fugitive

General references

Psalm 109:10

Bible References

It

And He said to Adam, “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:

The ground is cursed because of you.
You will eat from it by means of painful labor
all the days of your life.

and your strength will be used up for nothing. Your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.

The sky above you will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.

For the creation was subjected to futility—not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it—in the hope

A fugitive

Since You are banishing me today from the soil, and I must hide myself from Your presence and become a restless wanderer on the earth, whoever finds me will kill me.”

“I will put anxiety in the hearts of those of you who survive in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a wind-driven leaf will put them to flight, and they will flee as one flees from a sword, and fall though no one is pursuing them.

You will find no peace among those nations, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despondent spirit.

Let his children wander as beggars,
searching for food far from their demolished homes.

The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The Lord does not call you Pashhur, but Magor-missabib,

My God will reject them
because they have not listened to Him;
they will become wanderers among the nations.

General references

Let his children wander as beggars,
searching for food far from their demolished homes.