Leviticus 26:20
And your strength shall be consumed {in vain}; and your land shall not give its produce, and the land's trees shall not give their fruit.
Psalm 127:1
Unless Yahweh builds a house, its builders labor at it in vain. Unless Yahweh guards a city, a guard watches in vain.
Isaiah 49:4
But I myself said, "I have labored in vain; I have used up my strength for nothing and vanity! Nevertheless, my justice [is] with Yahweh, and my reward [is] with my God."
Leviticus 26:4
then I will give you rains in their time, and the land shall give its produce, and the trees of the field shall give their fruit.
Deuteronomy 11:17
And [then] {the anger of Yahweh will be kindled against you}, and he will shut up the heavens, and there shall not be rain, and [so] the ground will not give its produce, and you will perish quickly from the good land that Yahweh [is] giving to you.
Deuteronomy 28:18
"The fruit of your womb [shall] be cursed and the fruit of you ground, the calves of your cattle and the lambs of your flock.
Deuteronomy 28:38-40
"You shall carry out much seed to the field, but you shall gather little [produce], for the locust shall devour it.
Deuteronomy 28:42
The cricket shall take possession of all your trees and the fruit of your ground.
Job 31:40
let thorns grow in place of wheat and noxious weeds in place of barley." The words of Job are ended.
Psalm 107:34
a fruitful land into a salty place, because of the evil of its inhabitants.
Isaiah 17:11
On your planting day you make [them] grow, and in the morning [of] your sowing you bring [them] into bloom, [yet] the harvest will flee in a day [of] sickness and incurable pain.
Habakkuk 2:13
Look! [Is it] not from Yahweh of hosts that people labor for mere fire, and nations exhaust themselves for mere vanity?
Haggai 1:9-11
'You have looked for much, and look! [It came] to little; and [when] you brought [it] home, I blew it [away]. Why?' {declares} Yahweh of hosts. 'Because my house [is] desolate and you [are] running each to your own house!
Haggai 2:16
{from that time when} one came to a heap of twenty [measures], there were [only] ten, and [when] one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures, there were [only] twenty.
1 Corinthians 3:6
I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing [it] to grow.
Galatians 4:11
I am afraid [for] you, lest perhaps I have labored for you in vain!