14 You will eat but not be satisfied, and your hunger will remain with you. What you acquire, you will not preserve; and what you save, I will give to the sword.
Micah 6:14
Semantically similar passages
Deuteronomy 28:37–39
37 You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you. 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 neithe…
2 Esdras 15:56–58
56 Just as you will do to my chosen,” says the Lord, “even so God will do to you, and will deliver you to your adversaries. (WEB) 57 Your children will die of hunger. You will fall by the sword. Your cities will be broken down, and all your people in the field will perish… (WEB)
Deuteronomy 28:32–34
32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand. 33 A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed…
Ezekiel 5:15–17
15 So you will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror to the nations around you, when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and raging fury. I, the LORD, have spoken. 16 When I shower you with the deadly arrows of famine and destruction that I… 17 …
Leviticus 26:15–17
15 and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant, 16 then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and d…
Proverbs 6:10–12
10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, 11 and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit. 12 A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,
2 Esdras 15:48–50
48 You have followed her who is hateful in all her works and inventions. Therefore God says, (WEB) 49 “I will send evils on you: widowhood, poverty, famine, sword, and pestilence, to lay waste your houses and bring you to destruction and death. (WEB) 50 The glory of your power will… (WEB)
Deuteronomy 28:50–52
50 a ruthless nation with no respect for the old and no pity for the young. 51 They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of yo…
Search the collection All books and codes Translations and sources