Bible Cross References
the fruitful
Jeremiah 12:4
How long will our land be dry, and the grass in every field be withered? Animals and birds are dying because of the wickedness of our people, people who say, 'God doesn't see what we are doing.' "
Jeremiah 14:2-6
2
"Judah is in mourning; its cities are dying, its people lie on the ground in sorrow, and Jerusalem cries out for help.
3
The rich people send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; they come back with their jars empty. Discouraged and confused, they hide their faces.
4
Because there is no rain and the ground is dried up, the farmers are sick at heart; they hide their faces.
5
In the field the mother deer abandons her newborn fawn because there is no grass.
6
The wild donkeys stand on the hilltops and pant for breath like jackals; their eyesight fails them because they have no food.
Deuteronomy 29:23-28
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The fields will be a barren waste, covered with sulfur and salt; nothing will be planted, and not even weeds will grow there. Your land will be like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, of Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD destroyed when he was furiously angry.
24
Then the whole world will ask, 'Why did the LORD do this to their land? What was the reason for his fierce anger?'
25
And the answer will be, 'It is because the LORD's people broke the covenant they had made with him, the God of their ancestors, when he brought them out of Egypt.
26
They served other gods that they had never worshiped before, gods that the LORD had forbidden them to worship.
27
And so the LORD became angry with his people and brought on their land all the disasters written in this book.
28
The LORD became furiously angry, and in his great anger he uprooted them from their land and threw them into a foreign land, and there they are today.'
Psalm 76:7
But you, LORD, are feared by all. No one can stand in your presence when you are angry.
Psalm 107:34
He made rich soil become a salty wasteland because of the wickedness of those who lived there.
Isaiah 5:9
I have heard the LORD Almighty say, "All these big, fine houses will be empty ruins.
Isaiah 5:10
The grapevines growing on five acres of land will yield only five gallons of wine. Ten bushels of seed will produce only one bushel of grain."
Isaiah 7:20-25
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"When that time comes, the Lord will hire a barber from across the Euphrates---the emperor of Assyria!---and he will shave off your beards and the hair on your heads and your bodies.
21
"When that time comes, even if a farmer has been able to save only one young cow and two goats,
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they will give so much milk that he will have all he needs. Yes, the few survivors left in the land will have milk and honey to eat.
23
"When that time comes, the fine vineyards, each with a thousand vines and each worth a thousand pieces of silver, will be overgrown with thorn bushes and briers.
24
People will go hunting there with bows and arrows. Yes, the whole country will be full of briers and thorn bushes.
25
All the hills where crops were once planted will be so overgrown with thorns that no one will go there. It will be a place where cattle and sheep graze."
Micah 3:12
And so, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a pile of ruins, and the Temple hill will become a forest.