Deuteronomy 28:38 New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition) 38 “You will take much seed out into the field, but you will gather little,+ because the locust will devour it. Jeremiah 12:13 New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition) 13 They have sown wheat, but they have reaped thorns.+ They have worn themselves out, but to no benefit. They will be ashamed of their produceBecause of the burning anger of Jehovah.” Joel 1:10 New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition) 10 The field has been devastated, the ground mourns;+For the grain has been devastated, the new wine has dried up, the oil has failed.+ Amos 5:11 New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition) 11 Because you demand farm rent* from the poorAnd you take his grain as tribute,+You will not keep dwelling in the houses of hewn stone that you have built+Nor drink the wine from the choice vineyards that you have planted.+
38 “You will take much seed out into the field, but you will gather little,+ because the locust will devour it.
13 They have sown wheat, but they have reaped thorns.+ They have worn themselves out, but to no benefit. They will be ashamed of their produceBecause of the burning anger of Jehovah.”
10 The field has been devastated, the ground mourns;+For the grain has been devastated, the new wine has dried up, the oil has failed.+
11 Because you demand farm rent* from the poorAnd you take his grain as tribute,+You will not keep dwelling in the houses of hewn stone that you have built+Nor drink the wine from the choice vineyards that you have planted.+