Thematic Bible: Failure of
Thematic Bible
Harvest » Failure of » A cause of great grief
wail, you vinedressers,
over the wheat and the barley,
because the harvest of the field has perished.
to weep for the vines of Sibmah;
I drench Heshbon and Elealeh with my tears.
Triumphant shouts have fallen silent
over your summer fruit and your harvest.
Harvest » Failure of » A punishment for sin
For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and you have failed to remember the rock of your strength; therefore you will plant beautiful plants and set out cuttings from exotic vines. On the day that you plant, you will help them to grow, and in the morning you will help your seed to sprout, [but] the harvest will vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain.
Harvest » Failure of » Sometimes continued for years
For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.
Verse Concepts
Harvest » Failure of » Occasioned by drought
while there were still three months until harvest.
I sent rain on one city
but no rain on another.
One field received rain
while a field with no rain withered.
Harvest » Failure of » Occasioned by locusts
the swarming locust has eaten;
what the swarming locust has left,
the young locust
and what the young locust has left,
the destroying locust