You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.”
You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of
You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.
They will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous but not multiply. For they have abandoned the LORD to give
You are cursed with a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing Me.
For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour.
from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winep
If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name,” says the LORD of Hosts, “I will send a curse
For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”
For before those days neither man nor beast received wages, nor was there safety from the enemy for anyone who came or w
I will send it out, declares the LORD of Hosts, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears
and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.
The ground is cracked because no rain has fallen on the land. The farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.
When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight,
During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the
But from the time we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lack
You will eat but not be satisfied, and your hunger will remain with you. What you acquire, you will not preserve; and wh
Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread ratio
But she replied, “As surely as the LORD your God lives, I have no bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oi
The possessions of his house will be removed, flowing away on the day of God’s wrath.
and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not be
In the midst of his plenty, he will be distressed; the full force of misery will come upon him.
“I afflicted all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me