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Afflictions » Rejoicing in tribulation, examples of » Famine
The fig tree will not flourish. There will be no fruit on the vines. The labor of the olive will fail and the fields will yield no food! The flock will be cut off from the fold and there will be no herd in the stalls. Yet I will rejoice in Jehovah! I will find joy in the God of my salvation.
Rejoice, and be filled with joy, for great is your reward in heaven. The prophets, who came before you, were also persecuted.
Rejoice in that day and leap for joy. For your reward is great in heaven. Your fathers treated the prophets the same way.
Agriculture » Foes of » Barrenness of soil as a result of sin
When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer (vagabond) on the earth.
Your strength will be spent uselessly. Your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit.
Jehovah will become angry with you. He will shut the sky and there will be no rain. Then the ground will not grow any crops. You will quickly disappear from this good land Jehovah is giving you.
A ten-acre vineyard will produce only six gallons of wine, and two quarts of seed will produce only four quarts of grain.
The people of Israel plant the wind, but they harvest a storm. A field of grain that does not ripen will never produce any grain. Even if it did produce grain, foreigners would eat it all.
The fig tree will not flourish. There will be no fruit on the vines. The labor of the olive will fail and the fields will yield no food! The flock will be cut off from the fold and there will be no herd in the stalls.
You sow much and reap little. You eat but you do not have enough! You drink and yet you are not filled. You clothe yourselves but you are not warm. You earns wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.
You would go to a pile of grain looking for twenty bushels, but there would be only ten. You would go to draw fifty gallons of wine from a vat and find only twenty.
Barrenness » Barrenness of soil as a result of sin
When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer (vagabond) on the earth.
Your strength will be spent uselessly. Your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit.
Jehovah will become angry with you. He will shut the sky and there will be no rain. Then the ground will not grow any crops. You will quickly disappear from this good land Jehovah is giving you.
A ten-acre vineyard will produce only six gallons of wine, and two quarts of seed will produce only four quarts of grain.
The people of Israel plant the wind, but they harvest a storm. A field of grain that does not ripen will never produce any grain. Even if it did produce grain, foreigners would eat it all.
The fig tree will not flourish. There will be no fruit on the vines. The labor of the olive will fail and the fields will yield no food! The flock will be cut off from the fold and there will be no herd in the stalls.
You sow much and reap little. You eat but you do not have enough! You drink and yet you are not filled. You clothe yourselves but you are not warm. You earns wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.
You would go to a pile of grain looking for twenty bushels, but there would be only ten. You would go to draw fifty gallons of wine from a vat and find only twenty.
Famine » Prophesied
One of them was named Agabus. He indicated through the Spirit that a great famine was about to come on the entire earth. He said it would come to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.
The fig tree will not flourish. There will be no fruit on the vines. The labor of the olive will fail and the fields will yield no food! The flock will be cut off from the fold and there will be no herd in the stalls.
Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in many places.
The seven thin, sickly cows that came up behind them are seven years. The seven empty heads of grain scorched by the east wind are also seven years. Seven years of famine are coming!
Fig tree » Failure of, a great calamity
The fig tree will not flourish. There will be no fruit on the vines. The labor of the olive will fail and the fields will yield no food! The flock will be cut off from the fold and there will be no herd in the stalls.
Joy » In sorrow in tribulation, examples of » Famine
The fig tree will not flourish. There will be no fruit on the vines. The labor of the olive will fail and the fields will yield no food! The flock will be cut off from the fold and there will be no herd in the stalls. Yet I will rejoice in Jehovah! I will find joy in the God of my salvation.
Rejoice, and be filled with joy, for great is your reward in heaven. The prophets, who came before you, were also persecuted.
Rejoice in that day and leap for joy. For your reward is great in heaven. Your fathers treated the prophets the same way.
Joy » Of saints should be » Under calamities
The fig tree will not flourish. There will be no fruit on the vines. The labor of the olive will fail and the fields will yield no food! The flock will be cut off from the fold and there will be no herd in the stalls. Yet I will rejoice in Jehovah! I will find joy in the God of my salvation.
Olive Trees » Failure of, a great calamity
The fig tree will not flourish. There will be no fruit on the vines. The labor of the olive will fail and the fields will yield no food! The flock will be cut off from the fold and there will be no herd in the stalls. Yet I will rejoice in Jehovah! I will find joy in the God of my salvation.
Oxen » In stalls
The fig tree will not flourish. There will be no fruit on the vines. The labor of the olive will fail and the fields will yield no food! The flock will be cut off from the fold and there will be no herd in the stalls.
Rejoicing » In tribulation, examples of » Famine
The fig tree will not flourish. There will be no fruit on the vines. The labor of the olive will fail and the fields will yield no food! The flock will be cut off from the fold and there will be no herd in the stalls. Yet I will rejoice in Jehovah! I will find joy in the God of my salvation.
Rejoice, and be filled with joy, for great is your reward in heaven. The prophets, who came before you, were also persecuted.
Rejoice in that day and leap for joy. For your reward is great in heaven. Your fathers treated the prophets the same way.
Trees » Varieties » Fig
The fig tree will not flourish. There will be no fruit on the vines. The labor of the olive will fail and the fields will yield no food! The flock will be cut off from the fold and there will be no herd in the stalls.
The land has wheat and barley, grapevines, fig trees, and pomegranates. The land has honey and olive trees for olive oil.
When you keep a fig tree you eat the fruit. He who waits on his master will be honored.
He saw a fig tree along the side of the road. He went to it and saw nothing on it but leaves. He told it: You will not bare fruit from this time forward, forever. Immediately the fig tree became dry and dead.
Nathanael asked: How do you know me? Jesus answered: I saw you under the fig tree before Philip called you.
The stars of the sky fell to the earth, even as a fig tree drops her unripe figs when she is shaken by a mighty wind.
As long as he lived, the people throughout Judah and Israel lived in safety. Each family had its own grapevines and fig trees.
Jesus told them an illustration: There was a man who had a fig tree growing in his vineyard. He looked for figs on it but found none.
Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine produce figs? Neither can salt water yield sweet.