Thematic Bible: Failure of


Thematic Bible



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 ConceptsGrainHarvestOccupationsDestroying VineyardsPloughmenNot Reaping What You Sow

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 ConceptsGod, Suffering OfHarvestDestroying VineyardsI Mourn CatastropheSummer Fruit

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.

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 ConceptsTwo YearsFive YearsTilling The SoilNot Reaping What You SowIdentity

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 Conceptsdrought, physicalHarvestRainWeather, As God's JudgmentTwo To Four MonthsVariety Of Form

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. Verse ConceptsInsectsFamine, Causes OfCaterpillarsLocustsSuffering, Nature OfSymbolsDestruction Of PlantsGathering FoodRemaining Food

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