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Psalms 127:1
Unless the LORD builds a house, its builders labor over it in vain; unless the LORD watches over a city, the watchman stays alert in vain.
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Isaiah 49:4
But I myself said: I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and futility; yet my vindication is with the LORD, and my reward is with my God.
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Deuteronomy 11:17
Then the LORD’s anger will burn against you. He will shut the sky, and there will be no rain; the land will not yield its produce, and you will perish quickly from the good land the LORD is giving you.
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Leviticus 26:4
I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
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Habakkuk 2:13
Is it not from the LORD of Armies that the peoples labor only to fuel the fire and countries exhaust themselves for nothing?
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Job 31:40
then let thorns grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley. The words of Job are concluded.
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Deuteronomy 28:42
Buzzing insects will take possession of all your trees and your land’s produce.
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Psalms 107:34
and fruitful land into salty wasteland, because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.
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1 Corinthians 3 6
I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.
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Isaiah 17:11
On the day that you plant, you will help them to grow, and in the morning you will help your seed to sprout, but the harvest will vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain.
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Galatians 4:11
I am fearful for you, that perhaps my labor for you has been wasted.
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Haggai 1:9-11
“ You expected much, but then it amounted to little. When you brought the harvest to your house, I ruined it. Why?” This is the declaration of the LORD of Armies.“ Because my house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.So on your account, the skies have withheld the dew and the land its crops.I have summoned a drought on the fields and the hills, on the grain, new wine, fresh oil, and whatever the ground yields, on people and animals, and on all that your hands produce.”
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Deuteronomy 28:38-40
“ You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because locusts will devour it.You will plant and cultivate vineyards but not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.You will have olive trees throughout your territory but not moisten your skin with oil, because your olives will drop off.
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Haggai 2:16
what state were you in? When someone came to a grain heap of twenty measures, it only amounted to ten; when one came to the winepress to dip fifty measures from the vat, it only amounted to twenty.
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Deuteronomy 28:18
Your offspring will be cursed, and your land’s produce, the young of your herds, and the newborn of your flocks.