24 There will be no farmer left to cultivate the earth or to sow it. (WEB) 25 The trees will give fruit, but who will gather it? (WEB) 26 The grapes will ripen, but who will tread them? For in all places there will be a great solitude; (WEB)
2 Esdras 16:24–26
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2 Esdras 6:21–23
21 The children a year old will speak with their voices. The women with child will deliver premature children at three or four months, and they will live and dance. (WEB) 22 Suddenly the sown places will appear unsown. The full storehouses will suddenly be found empty. (WEB) 23 The… (WEB)
Hosea 9:1–3
1 Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor. 2 The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them. 3 They will n…
Leviticus 26:19–21
19 I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze, 20 and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit. 21 If you walk in hostility toward…
Deuteronomy 28:38–40
38 You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it. 39 You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them. 40 You will have olive trees throughout your te…
2 Esdras 16:42–44
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Micah 7:12–14
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Micah 6:14–16
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Psalms 129:6–8
6 May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow, 7 unable to fill the hands of the reaper, or the arms of the binder of sheaves. 8 May none who pass by say to them, “The blessing of the LORD be on you; we bless you in the name of the LORD.”
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