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Psalms 127:1
If the LORD does not build a house, then those who build it work in vain. If the LORD does not guard a city, then the watchman stands guard in vain.
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Isaiah 49:4
But I thought,“ I have worked in vain; I have expended my energy for absolutely nothing.” But the LORD will vindicate me; my God will reward me.
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Deuteronomy 11:17
Then the anger of the LORD will erupt against you and he will close up the sky so that it does not rain. The land will not yield its produce, and you will soon be removed from the good land that the Lord is about to give you.
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Leviticus 26:4
I will give you your rains in their time so that the land will give its yield and the trees of the field will produce their fruit.
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Habakkuk 2:13
Be sure of this! The LORD who commands armies has decreed: The nations’ efforts will go up in smoke; their exhausting work will be for nothing.
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Job 31:40
then let thorns sprout up in place of wheat, and in place of barley, weeds!” The words of Job are ended.
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Deuteronomy 28:42
Whirring locusts will take over every tree and all the produce of your soil.
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Psalms 107:34
and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.
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1 Corinthians 3 6
I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused it to grow.
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Isaiah 17:11
The day you begin cultivating, you do what you can to make it grow; the morning you begin planting, you do what you can to make it sprout. Yet the harvest will disappear in the day of disease and incurable pain.
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Galatians 4:11
I fear for you that my work for you may have been in vain.
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Haggai 1:9-11
‘ You expected a large harvest, but instead there was little, and when you brought it home it disappeared right away. Why?’ asks the LORD who rules over all.‘ Because my temple remains in ruins, thanks to each of you favoring his own house!This is why the sky has held back its dew and the earth its produce.Moreover, I have called for a drought that will affect the fields, the hill country, the grain, new wine, fresh olive oil, and everything that grows from the ground; it also will harm people, animals, and everything they produce.’”
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Deuteronomy 28:38-40
“ You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it.You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink wine or gather in grapes, because worms will eat them.You will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with olive oil, because the olives will drop off the trees while still unripe.
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Haggai 2:16
From that time when one came expecting a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures from it, there were only twenty.
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Deuteronomy 28:18
Your children will be cursed, as well as the produce of your soil, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.