Leviticus 26:20
Your strength will be used up in vain, your land will not give its yield, and the trees of the land will not produce their fruit.
Psalm 127:1
A song of ascents, by Solomon. If the Lord does not build a house, then those who build it work in vain. If the Lord does not guard a city, then the watchman stands guard in vain.
Isaiah 49:4
But I thought, "I have worked in vain; I have expended my energy for absolutely nothing." But the Lord will vindicate me; my God will reward me.
Leviticus 26:4
I will give you your rains in their time so that the land will give its yield and the trees of the field will produce their fruit.
Deuteronomy 11:17
Then the anger of the Lord will erupt against you and he will close up the sky so that it does not rain. The land will not yield its produce, and you will soon be removed from the good land that the Lord is about to give you.
Deuteronomy 28:18
Your children will be cursed, as well as the produce of your soil, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.
Deuteronomy 28:38-40
"You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it.
Deuteronomy 28:42
Whirring locusts will take over every tree and all the produce of your soil.
Job 31:40
then let thorns sprout up in place of wheat, and in place of barley, weeds!" The words of Job are ended.
Psalm 107:34
and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.
Isaiah 17:11
The day you begin cultivating, you do what you can to make it grow; the morning you begin planting, you do what you can to make it sprout. Yet the harvest will disappear in the day of disease and incurable pain.
Habakkuk 2:13
Be sure of this! The Lord who commands armies has decreed: The nations' efforts will go up in smoke; their exhausting work will be for nothing.
Haggai 1:9-11
You expected a large harvest, but instead there was little, and when you brought it home it disappeared right away. Why?' asks the Lord who rules over all. 'Because my temple remains in ruins, thanks to each of you favoring his own house!
Haggai 2:16
From that time when one came expecting a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures from it, there were only twenty.
1 Corinthians 3:6
I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused it to grow.
Galatians 4:11
I fear for you that my work for you may have been in vain.