Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
Harvest
The thorns
Swalloweth
Bible References
Harvest
Deuteronomy 28:33
The fruit of thy land and all thy labours shall a people which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt only be oppressed and crushed all the days.
Judges 6:3
For when those of Israel had sown, the Midianites would come up and the Amalekites and the sons of the east. They would come up against them
Isaiah 62:8
The LORD has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no longer give thy wheat to be food for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for which thou hast laboured:
The thorns
Judges 6:11
And the angel of the LORD came and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah that pertained unto Joash, the Abiezrite, and his son Gideon threshed wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
2 Chronicles 33:11
Therefore, the LORD brought upon them the princes of the host of the king of Assyria who took Manasseh and bound him with fetters of brass and carried him to Babylon.
The robber
Job 1:15
and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them away; they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell thee.
Job 12:6
The tents of robbers are at ease, and those that provoke God and those who carry gods in their hands live secure.
Job 18:9
The snare shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
Hosea 8:7
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind; they shall have no harvest; the fruit shall yield no meal: if so be it yields, the strangers shall swallow it up.
Swalloweth
Job 2:3
And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my slave Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that fears God and has departed from evil and that he still retains his perfection, although thou didst incite me against him to destroy him without cause.
Job 20:15
He has swallowed down riches, but he shall vomit them up again; God shall cast them out of his belly.
Jeremiah 51:34
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel, he has swallowed me up like a dragon; he has filled his belly with my delicates; he has cast me out.
Lamentations 2:5
He The Lord was as an enemy, he has destroyed Israel; he has destroyed all her palaces; he has dissipated his strong holds and has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.