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Psalms 127:1
Unless the Lord builds a house, They who build it labor in vain; Unless the Lord guards a city, The watchman stays awake in vain.
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Isaiah 49:4
But I said,“ I have labored in vain, I have spent My strength for nothing and futility; Nevertheless, the justice due to Me is with the Lord, And My reward is with My God.”
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Deuteronomy 11:17
Otherwise, the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and He will shut up the sky so that there will be no rain, and the ground will not yield its produce; then you will quickly perish from the good land which the Lord is giving you.
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Leviticus 26:4
then I shall give you rains in their season, so that 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 indeed from the Lord of armies That peoples labor merely for fire, And nations become weary for nothing?
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Job 31:40
May the thorn bush grow instead of wheat, And stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.
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Deuteronomy 28:42
The cricket will take possession of all your trees and the produce of your ground.
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Psalms 107:34
And a fruitful land into a salt waste, Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
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1 Corinthians 3 6
I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth.
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Isaiah 17:11
On the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in, And in the morning you bring your seed to blossom; But the harvest will flee On a day of illness and incurable pain.
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Galatians 4:11
I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored over you in vain.
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Haggai 1:9-11
“ You start an ambitious project, but behold, it comes to little; when you bring it home, I blow it away. Why?” declares the Lord of armies.“ It is because of My house which remains desolate, while each of you runs to his own house.Therefore, because of you the sky has withheld its dew, and the earth has withheld its produce.And I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on what the ground produces, on mankind, on cattle, and on all the products of the labor of your hands.”
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Deuteronomy 28:38-40
“ You will bring out a great amount of seed to the field, but you will gather in little, because the locust will devour it.You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but you will neither drink of the wine nor bring in the harvest, because the worm will eat it.You will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, because your olives will drop off prematurely.
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Haggai 2:16
from that time when one came to a grain heap of twenty measures, there would be only ten; and when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there would be only twenty.
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Deuteronomy 28:18
“ Cursed will be the children of your womb, the produce of your ground, the newborn of your herd, and the offspring of your flock.