Deuteronomy 28:38

In 11 translations

BSB

You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.

KJV

Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.

WEB

You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it.

ASV

Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.

LSV

You take much seed out into the field, and you gather little in, for the locust consumes it;

YLT

'Much seed thou dost take out into the field, and little thou dost gather in, for the locust doth consume it;

DBY

Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall devour it.

DRC

Thou shalt cast much seed into the ground, and gather little: because the locusts shall consume all.

GNV

Thou shalt carie out much seede into the fielde, and shalt gather but litle in: for the grashoppers shall destroy it.

JPS

Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.

LXXE

Thou shalt carry forth much seed into the field, and thou shalt bring in little, because the locust shall devour it.

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Original-language editions

WLC

זֶ֥רַע רַ֖ב תּוֹצִ֣יא הַשָּׂדֶ֑ה וּמְעַ֣ט תֶּאֱסֹ֔ף כִּ֥י יַחְסְלֶ֖נּוּ הָאַרְבֶּֽה׃

LXX-Br

Σπέρμα πολὺ ἐξοίσεις εἰς τὸ πεδίον, καὶ ὀλίγα εἰσοίσεις, ὅτι κατέδεται αὐτὰ ἡ ἀκρίς·

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

• Haggai 1:6You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.”
• Joel 1:4What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.
• Micah 6:15You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.
• Amos 4:9“I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
• Joel 2:25I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts— the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust — My great army that I sent against you.
• Amos 7:1–2This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts just after the king’s harvest, as the late spring crop was coming up. And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord…
• Exodus 10:14–15The locusts swarmed across the land and settled over the entire territory of Egypt. Never before had there been so many locusts, and never again will there be. They covered the face of all the land until it was black,…
• Isaiah 5:10For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”
• Joel 2:3Before them a fire devours, and behind them a flame scorches. The land before them is like the Garden of Eden, but behind them, it is like a desert wasteland— surely nothing will escape them.

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