Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
Your strength
For your land
General references
Bible References
Your strength
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."
Habakkuk 2:13
Look! [Is it] not from Yahweh of hosts that people labor for mere fire, and nations exhaust themselves for mere vanity?
Galatians 4:11
I am afraid [for] you, lest perhaps I have labored for you in vain!
For your land
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.
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.
Haggai 1:9
'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.
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Micah 6:15
You yourself will sow, but you will not reap; you will tread olives, but you will not anoint yourself with oil; [you will tread] grapes, but you will not drink wine.