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.
A song of ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain; unless the LORD protects th
or the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you. He will shut the heavens so that there will be no rain, nor will t
But I said, “I have labored in vain, I have spent My strength in futility and vanity; yet My vindication is with the LOR
I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their f
Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselv
You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of
from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winep
though on the day you plant you make them grow, and on that morning you help your seed sprout—yet the harvest will vanis
Swarms of locusts will consume all your trees and the produce of your land.
I fear for you, that my efforts for you may have been in vain.
You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.
The fruit of your womb will be cursed, as well as the produce of your land, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of y
then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.
I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.
and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.