Thematic Bible: Failure of
Thematic Bible
Harvest » Failure of » A cause of great grief
The farmers are shamed, the workers in the vine-gardens give cries of grief, for the wheat and the barley; for the produce of the fields has come to destruction.
Verse Concepts
For this cause my sorrow for the vine of Sibmah will be like the weeping for Jazer: my eyes are dropping water on you, O Heshbon and Elealeh! For they are sounding the war-cry over your summer fruits and the getting in of your grain;
Verse Concepts
Harvest » Failure of » A punishment for sin
For you have not given honour to the God of your salvation, and have not kept in mind the Rock of your strength; for this cause you made a garden of Adonis, and put in it the vine-cuttings of a strange god; In the day of your planting you were watching its growth, and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is wasted away in the day of grief and bitter sorrow.
Harvest » Failure of » Sometimes continued for years
For these two years have been years of need, and there are still five more years to come in which there will be no ploughing or cutting of grain.
Verse Concepts
Harvest » Failure of » Occasioned by drought
And I have kept back the rain from you, when it was still three months before the grain-cutting: I sent rain on one town and kept it back from another: one part was rained on, and the part where there was no rain became a waste.
Verse Concepts
Harvest » Failure of » Occasioned by locusts
What the worm did not make a meal of, has been taken by the locust; and what the locust did not take, has been food for the plant-worm; and what the plant-worm did not take, has been food for the field-fly.
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