Job 31:40
let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.
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Job 31:40
let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.
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Genesis 3:8
They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.
Genesis 3:19
You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”
Genesis 5:29
He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground which Yahweh has cursed.”
Deuteronomy 29:28
Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today.”
Isaiah 5:1
Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
Isaiah 5:3
“Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard.
Isaiah 5:5
Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.
Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold, oppression, for righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.
Jeremiah 17:6
For he will be like a bush in the desert, and will not see when good comes, but will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, an uninhabited salt land.
Jeremiah 44:22
Thus Yahweh could no longer bear it, because of the evil of your doings and because of the abominations which you have committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation, an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is today.
Matthew 7:23
Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’
Mark 11:14
Jesus told it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again!” and his disciples heard it.
Mark 11:21
Peter, remembering, said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree which you cursed has withered away.”
Romans 8:20
For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
Hebrews 12:17
For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.
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Genesis 4:10
Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.
Joshua 24:27
Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all Yahweh’s words which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God.”
Job 16:18
“Earth, don’t cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.
Isaiah 26:21
For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.
Habakkuk 2:11
For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.
Luke 19:40
He answered them, “I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out.”
Hebrews 12:24
to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
James 5:3
Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.
James 5:4
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
James 5:7
Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
Revelation 6:10
They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”
Revelation 12:16
The earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon spewed out of his mouth.
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Genesis 31:32
Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it.” For Jacob didn’t know that Rachel had stolen them.
Genesis 44:9
With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves.”
1 Samuel 12:3
Here I am. Witness against me before Yahweh and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a bribe to make me blind my eyes? I will restore it to you.”
1 Samuel 12:4
They said, “You have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither have you taken anything from anyone’s hand.”
Acts 18:14
But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked crime, you Jews, it would be reasonable that I should bear with you;
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Genesis 39:12
She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!” He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.
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Numbers 5:22
and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away.” The woman shall say, “Amen, Amen.”
Deuteronomy 27:15
‘Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’
Deuteronomy 27:16
‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Deuteronomy 27:17
‘Cursed is he who removes his neighbor’s landmark.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Deuteronomy 27:18
‘Cursed is he who leads the blind astray on the road.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Deuteronomy 27:19
‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Deuteronomy 27:20
‘Cursed is he who lies with his father’s wife, because he dishonors his father’s bed.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Deuteronomy 27:21
‘Cursed is he who lies with any kind of animal.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Deuteronomy 27:22
‘Cursed is he who lies with his sister, his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Deuteronomy 27:23
‘Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Deuteronomy 27:24
‘Cursed is he who secretly kills his neighbor.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Deuteronomy 27:25
‘Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Deuteronomy 27:26
‘Cursed is he who doesn’t uphold the words of this law by doing them.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ ”
Psalms 68:5
A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
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Leviticus 26:4
then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
Leviticus 26:20
Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.
Deuteronomy 11:17
and Yahweh’s anger be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky so that there is no rain, and the land doesn’t yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you.
Deuteronomy 28:18
The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock will be cursed.
Deuteronomy 28:38
You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it.
Deuteronomy 28:39
You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink of the wine, nor harvest, because worms will eat them.
Deuteronomy 28:40
You will have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you won’t anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off.
Deuteronomy 28:42
Locusts will consume all of your trees and the fruit of your ground.
Jeremiah 12:13
They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns. They have exhausted themselves, and profit nothing. You will be ashamed of your fruits, because of Yahweh’s fierce anger.”
Haggai 1:9
“You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says Yahweh of Armies, “Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.
Haggai 1:10
Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.
Haggai 1:11
I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground produces, on men, on livestock, and on all the labor of the hands.”
Haggai 2:16
Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.
1 Corinthians 3:6
I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
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Joshua 22:23
that we have built us an altar to turn away from following Yahweh; or if to offer burnt offering or meal offering, or if to offer sacrifices of peace offerings, let Yahweh himself require it.
Psalms 137:6
Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don’t remember you, if I don’t prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.
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Joshua 23:13
know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.
Job 5:5
whose harvest the hungry eat up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.
Proverbs 2:2
so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
Proverbs 22:5
Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked; whoever guards his soul stays from them.
Isaiah 32:13
Thorns and briers will come up on my people’s land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
Isaiah 34:3
Their slain will also be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies will come up. The mountains will melt in their blood.
Isaiah 34:13
Thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it will be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.
Hosea 9:6
For, behold, when they flee destruction, Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver. Thorns will be in their tents.
Zephaniah 2:9
Therefore, as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.
Malachi 1:3
but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”
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Job 31:34
because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door—
Job 31:36
Surely I would carry it on my shoulder, and I would bind it to me as a crown.
Job 42:7
It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.
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Job 32:1
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
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Job 32:4
Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were elder than he.
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Psalms 32:1
Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
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2 Samuel 23:1
Now these are the last words of David. David the son of Jesse says, the man who was raised on high says, the anointed of the God of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel:
Song of Solomon 2:2
As a lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. Beloved
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Job 31:2
For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?
Job 31:4
Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?
Job 31:13
“If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me,
Job 31:14
what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him?
Job 31:17
or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it
Job 31:24
“If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’
Job 31:25
If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;
Job 31:28
this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I should have denied the God who is above.
Job 31:29
“If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him
Matthew 13:22
What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
1 Timothy 6:17
Charge those who are rich in this present age that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
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Matthew 13:25
but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away.
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1 Samuel 15:23
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.”
Job 40:3
Then Job answered Yahweh,
Luke 13:7
He said to the vine dresser, ‘Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down! Why does it waste the soil?’
Luke 13:8
He answered, ‘Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.
Luke 13:9
If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.’ ”
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Luke 24:51
While he blessed them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven.
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2 Samuel 11:2
At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.
2 Samuel 12:11
“This is what Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.
2 Samuel 12:12
For you did this secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.’ ”
2 Samuel 12:14
However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh’s enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you will surely die.”
2 Samuel 16:22
So they spread a tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
Matthew 5:28
but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
James 1:15
Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.
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Psalms 72:18
Praise be to Yahweh God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.
James 2:13
For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
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