From now on, when you till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth.”
Parallel translations
- KJV When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
- BSB When you till the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”
- NKJV When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength to you. A fugitive and a vagabond you shall be on the earth.”
- NASB When you cultivate the ground, it will no longer yield its strength to you; you will be a wanderer and a drifter on the earth.”
- NLT No longer will the ground yield good crops for you, no matter how hard you work! From now on you will be a homeless wanderer on the earth.”
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- Hos 9:17My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him; and they will be wanderers among the nations.
- Lev 26:20Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.
- Lev 26:36“‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.
- Deut 28:23–24Your sky that is over your head will be brass, and the earth that is under you will be iron.
- Deut 28:65–66Among these nations you will find no ease, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and pining of soul.
- Gen 4:14Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. Whoever finds me will kill me.”
- Jer 20:3–4On the next day, Pashhur released Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, “Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib.
- Rom 8:20For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
- Gen 3:17–18To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.
- Ps 109:10Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.
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