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Psalms 127:1
Unless the Lord builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the Lord guards the city, The watchman stays awake in vain.
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Isaiah 49:4
Then I said,‘ I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and in vain; Yet surely my just reward is with the Lord, And my work with my God.’”
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Deuteronomy 11:17
lest the LORD’s anger be aroused against you, and He shut up the heavens so that there be no rain, and the land yield no produce, and you perish quickly from the good land which the Lord is giving you.
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Leviticus 26:4
then I will give you rain in its season, the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
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Habakkuk 2:13
Behold, is it not of the Lord of hosts That the peoples labor to feed the fire, And nations weary themselves in vain?
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Job 31:40
Then let thistles grow instead of wheat, And weeds instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.
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Deuteronomy 28:42
Locusts shall consume all your trees and the produce of your land.
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Psalms 107:34
A fruitful land into barrenness, For the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
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1 Corinthians 3 6
I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.
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Isaiah 17:11
In the day you will make your plant to grow, And in the morning you will make your seed to flourish; But the harvest will be a heap of ruins In the day of grief and desperate sorrow.
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Galatians 4:11
I am afraid for you, lest I have labored for you in vain.
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Haggai 1:9-11
“ You looked for much, but indeed it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says the Lord of hosts.“ Because of My house that is in ruins, while every one of you runs to his own house.Therefore the heavens above you withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.For I called for a drought on the land and the mountains, on the grain and the new wine and the oil, on whatever the ground brings forth, on men and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.”
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Deuteronomy 28:38-40
“ You shall carry much seed out to the field but gather little in, for the locust shall consume it.You shall plant vineyards and tend them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives shall drop off.
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Haggai 2:16
since those days, when one came to a heap of twenty ephahs, there were but ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty baths from the press, there were but twenty.
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Deuteronomy 28:18
“ Cursed shall be the fruit of your body and the produce of your land, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.