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Psalm 127:1
Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain. (niv)
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Jesaja 49:4
But I said,“ I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing at all. Yet what is due me is in the Lord’s hand, and my reward is with my God.” (niv)
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5 Mose 11 17
Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you, and he will shut up the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield no produce, and you will soon perish from the good land the Lord is giving you. (niv)
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3 Mose 26 4
I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit. (niv)
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Habakuk 2:13
Has not the Lord Almighty determined that the people’s labor is only fuel for the fire, that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing? (niv)
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Hiob 31:40
then let briers come up instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended. (niv)
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5 Mose 28 42
Swarms of locusts will take over all your trees and the crops of your land. (niv)
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Psalm 107:34
and fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the wickedness of those who lived there. (niv)
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1 Korinther 3 6
I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow. (niv)
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Jesaja 17:11
though on the day you set them out, you make them grow, and on the morning when you plant them, you bring them to bud, yet the harvest will be as nothing in the day of disease and incurable pain. (niv)
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Galater 4:11
I fear for you, that somehow I have wasted my efforts on you. (niv)
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Haggai 1:9-11
“ You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why?” declares the Lord Almighty.“ Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with your own house.Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its crops.I called for a drought on the fields and the mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the olive oil and everything else the ground produces, on people and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.” (niv)
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5 Mose 28 38-5 Mose 28 40
You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it.You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off. (niv)
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Haggai 2:16
When anyone came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When anyone went to a wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were only twenty. (niv)
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5 Mose 28 18
The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks. (niv)