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Isaiah 17:11

though on the day you plant you make them grow, and on that morning you help your seed sprout—yet the harvest will vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain.

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ASV

In the day of thy planting thou hedgest it in, and in the morning thou makest thy seed to blossom; but the harvest fleeth away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

KJV

In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

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12 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
בְּי֤וֹםbe.Yomon [the] day ofH3117 →
נִטְעֵךְ֙nit.'eKhplanting yourH5194 →
תְּשַׂגְשֵׂ֔גִיte.sag.Se.giyou cause to growH7735 →
וּבַבֹּ֖קֶרu.va.Bo.kerand in the morningH1242 →
זַרְעֵ֣ךְzar.'Ekhseed yourH2233 →
תַּפְרִ֑יחִיtaf.Ri.chiyou cause to sproutH6524 →
נֵ֥דneda heapH5067 →
קָצִ֛ירka.Tzira harvestH7105 →
בְּי֥וֹםbe.Yomin a day ofH3117 →
נַחֲלָ֖הna.cha.Lah[being] sickH2470 →
וּכְאֵ֥בu.khe.'Evand painH3511 →
אָנֽוּשׁ׃ ס'a.NushincurableH605 →

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Job 4:8As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.Hosea 8:7For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.Joel 1:11Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.Isaiah 65:13–14Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “My servants will eat, but you will go hungry; My servants will drink, but you will go thirsty; My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.Galatians 6:7–8Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.Hosea 9:16Ephraim is struck down; their root is withered; they cannot bear fruit. Even if they bear children, I will slay the darlings of their wombs.Joel 1:5–12Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.Hosea 10:12–15Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.Jeremiah 5:31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?Psalms 90:6in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.Matthew 8:11–12I say to you that many will come from the east and the west to share the banquet with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.Hosea 9:1–4Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.Romans 2:5But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.Isaiah 18:5–6For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, He will cut off the shoots with a pruning knife and remove and discard the branches.Romans 2:8–9But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.Hosea 9:1Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.Isaiah 17:5as the reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the ears with his arm, as one gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.Isaiah 40:24No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.

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The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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