Isaiah 19:15
There will be no work for Egypt
Which head or tail, [high] palm branch or [low] bulrush, may do.
Isaiah 9:14-15
Therefore the Lord cuts off head and tail [the highest and the lowest] from Israel,
Both [the high] palm branch and [the low] bulrush in one day.
Psalm 128:2
For you shall eat the fruit of [the labor of] your hands,
You will be happy and blessed and it will be well with you.
Proverbs 14:23
In all labor there is profit,
But mere talk leads only to poverty.
Habakkuk 3:17
Though the fig tree does not blossom
And there is no fruit on the vines,
Though the yield of the olive fails
And the fields produce no food,
Though the flock is cut off from the fold
And there are no cattle in the stalls,
Haggai 1:11
I called for a drought on the land and the hill country, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on what the ground produces, on men, on cattle, and on all the labor of your hands.”
1 Thessalonians 4:11-12
and to make it your ambition to live quietly and peacefully, and to mind your own affairs and work with your hands, just as we directed you,
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Therefore the Lord cuts off head and tail [the highest and the lowest] from Israel,
Both [the high] palm branch and [the low] bulrush in one day.
For you shall eat the fruit of [the labor of] your hands,
You will be happy and blessed and it will be well with you.
In all labor there is profit,
But mere talk leads only to poverty.
Though the fig tree does not blossom
And there is no fruit on the vines,
Though the yield of the olive fails
And the fields produce no food,
Though the flock is cut off from the fold
And there are no cattle in the stalls,