Job 4:8, Isa 18:5-6, Jer 5:31, Hos 8:7, 9:1-4, 16, 10:12-15, Joe 1:5-12 | ESV | STEP | As I have seen , those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.

5 ^bFor before the harvest, when the blossom is over,
and the flower becomes a ripening grape,
he cuts off the shoots with pruning hooks,
and the spreading branches he lops off and clears away.
6 ^cThey shall all of them be left
to the birds of prey of the mountains
and to the beasts of the earth.
And the birds of prey will summer on them,
and all the beasts of the earth will winter on them.

Jeremiah 5:31

31 ^dthe prophets prophesy falsely,
and the priests rule at their direction;
^emy people love to have it so,
but what will you do when the end comes?

Hosea 8:7

7 For ^fthey sow the wind,
and they shall reap the whirlwind.
The standing grain has no heads;
it shall yield no flour;
if it were to yield,
^gstrangers would devour it.

Hosea 9:1-4

The Lord Will Punish Israel

1 Rejoice not, O Israel!
Exult not like the peoples;
^hfor you have played the whore, forsaking your God.
ⁱYou have loved a prostitute’s wages
on all threshing floors.
2 ^jThreshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them,
and ^kthe new wine shall fail them.
3 They shall not remain in ^lthe land of the Lord,
but ^mEphraim shall return to Egypt,
and ⁿthey shall eat unclean food in Assyria.
4 ^oThey shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the Lord,
^pand their sacrifices shall not please him.
It shall be like ^qmourners’ bread to them;
all who eat of it shall be defiled;
for their bread shall be for their hunger only;
^rit shall not come to the house of the Lord.

Hosea 9:16

16 Ephraim is stricken;
^stheir root is dried up;
they shall bear no fruit.
Even ^tthough they give birth,
^uI will put their beloved children to death.

Hosea 10:12-15

12 ^vSow for yourselves righteousness;
reap steadfast love;
^wbreak up your fallow ground,
for it is the time to seek the Lord,
that he may come and ^xrain righteousness upon you.
13 ^yYou have plowed iniquity;
you have reaped injustice;
you have eaten the fruit of lies.
Because you have trusted in your own way
and in the multitude of your warriors,
14 therefore ^zthe tumult of war shall arise among your people,
and all your fortresses shall be destroyed,
as ^aaShalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle;
^abmothers were dashed in pieces with their children.
15 Thus it shall be done to you, O ^acBethel,
because of your great evil.
At dawn ^adthe king of Israel
shall be utterly cut off.

Joel 1:5-12

5 Awake, you drunkards, and weep,
and ^aewail, all you drinkers of wine,
because of ^afthe sweet wine,
for it is cut off from your mouth.
6 For ^aga nation has come up against my land,
^ahpowerful and beyond number;
^aiits teeth are lions’ teeth,
and it has the fangs of a lioness.
7 It has laid waste my vine
and splintered my ^ajfig tree;
it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down;
their branches are made white.
8 Lament like a virgin ^{▼▼Or young woman} ^alwearing sackcloth
for the bridegroom of her youth.
9 ^amThe grain offering and the drink offering are cut off
from the house of the Lord.
^anThe priests mourn,
^aothe ministers of the Lord.
10 The fields are destroyed,
^apthe ground mourns,
because ^aqthe grain is destroyed,
^arthe wine dries up,
the oil languishes.
11 ^asBe 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,
^aubecause the harvest of the field has perished.
12 The vine dries up;
^avthe fig tree languishes.
Pomegranate, palm, and apple,
all the trees of the field are dried up,
and ^awgladness dries up
from the children of man.