Leviticus 26:20
20And ayour strength shall be spent in vain, for byour land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.Deuteronomy 28:38-40
38 cYou shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for dthe locust shall consume it. 39 eYou 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 fshall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off.2 Samuel 21:1
David Avenges the Gibeonites
1Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year. And David gsought the face of the Lord. And the Lord said, “There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”Psalms 107:34
34 ha fruitful land into a salty waste,because of the evil of its inhabitants.
Isaiah 5:10
10 iFor ten acres ▼▼Hebrew ten yoke, the area ten yoke of oxen can plow in a day
of vineyard shall yield but one bath,and a khomer of seed shall yield but an ephah.” ▼
▼A bath was about 6 gallons or 22 liters; a homer was about 6 bushels or 220 liters; an ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters
Haggai 1:9
9 mYou looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, nI blew it away. Why? declares the Lord of hosts. Because of my house othat lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house.Haggai 2:16
16how did you fare? pWhen ▼▼Probable reading (compare Septuagint); Hebrew Lord, since they were. When
one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty.
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