Deuteronomy 28:15-18

Curses for Disobedience

15“But aif you will not obey the voice of the Lord your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and bovertake you. 16Cursed shall you be cin the city, and cursed shall you be in the field. 17Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. 18Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.

Deuteronomy 28:30-41

30 dYou shall betroth a wife, but another man shall ravish her. eYou shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it. fYou shall plant a vineyard, but you shall not enjoy its fruit. 31Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat any of it. Your donkey shall be seized before your face, but shall not be restored to you. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies, but there shall be no one to help you. 32 gYour sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, hbut you shall be helpless. 33A nation that you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually, 34so that you are driven mad iby the sights that your eyes see. 35The Lord will strike you on the knees and on the legs jwith grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

36“The Lord will kbring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you lnor your fathers have known. And mthere you shall serve other gods of wood and stone. 37And you shall become na horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away. 38 oYou shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for pthe locust shall consume it. 39 qYou shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them. 40You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you rshall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off. 41You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for sthey shall go into captivity.

Jeremiah 14:2-8

2 tJudah mourns,
and uher gates languish;
her people lament on the ground,
and vthe cry of Jerusalem goes up.
3Her nobles send their servants for water;
they come to the cisterns;
they find no water;
they return with their vessels empty;
they are washamed and confounded
and xcover their heads.
4Because of the ground that is dismayed,
since there is yno rain on the land,
the farmers are ashamed;
they cover their heads.
5Even zthe doe in the field forsakes her newborn fawn
because there is no grass.
6 aaThe wild donkeys stand on the bare heights;
they pant for air like jackals;
their eyes fail
because there is no vegetation.
7 Though our iniquities testify against us,
act, O Lord, abfor your name’s sake;
acfor our backslidings are many;
adwe have sinned against you.
8 aeO you hope of Israel,
its savior in time of trouble,
why should you be like a stranger in the land,
like a traveler who turns aside to tarry for a night?

Joel 1:10-13

10The fields are destroyed,
afthe ground mourns,
because agthe grain is destroyed,
ahthe wine dries up,
the oil languishes.
11 aiBe ashamed,
The Hebrew words for  dry up and  be ashamed in verses 10–12, 17 sound alike
O tillers of the soil;
wail, O vinedressers,
for the wheat and the barley,
akbecause the harvest of the field has perished.
12The vine dries up;
althe fig tree languishes.
Pomegranate, palm, and apple,
all the trees of the field are dried up,
and amgladness dries up
from the children of man.

A Call to Repentance

13 anPut on sackcloth and lament, aoO priests;
apwail, O ministers of the altar.
Go in, aqpass the night in sackcloth,
arO ministers of my God!
asBecause grain offering and drink offering
are withheld from the house of your God.

Joel 1:16-18

16Is not the food cut off
before our eyes,
atjoy and gladness
from the house of our God?
17 auThe seed shrivels under the clods;
The meaning of the Hebrew line is uncertain

the storehouses are desolate;
the granaries are torn down
because awthe grain has dried up.
18How axthe beasts groan!
The herds of cattle are perplexed
because there is no pasture for them;
even the flocks of sheep suffer.
Or are made desolate

Amos 4:6-10

Israel Has Not Returned to the Lord

6 “I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
and azlack of bread in all your places,
bayet you did not return to me,”

declares the Lord.
7 I also bbwithheld the rain from you
when there were yet three months to the harvest;
bcI would send rain on one city,
and send no rain on another city;
one field would have rain,
and the field on which it did not rain would wither;
8so two or three cities bdwould wander to another city
to drink water, and would not be satisfied;
beyet you did not return to me,”

declares the Lord.
9 bf“I struck you with blight and mildew;
your many gardens and your vineyards,
your fig trees and your olive trees bgthe locust devoured;
bhyet you did not return to me,”

declares the Lord.
10 “I sent among you a pestilence biafter the manner of Egypt;
I killed your young men with the sword,
and bjcarried away your horses,
Hebrew along with the captivity of your horses

and blI made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils;
bmyet you did not return to me,”

declares the Lord.
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