Bible Cross References
the fig-tree
Deuteronomy 28:15-18
15
"But if you disobey the LORD your God and do not faithfully keep all his commands and laws that I am giving you today, all these evil things will happen to you:
16
"The LORD will curse your towns and your fields.
17
"The LORD will curse your grain crops and the food you prepare from them.
18
"The LORD will curse you by giving you only a few children, poor crops, and few cattle and sheep.
Deuteronomy 28:30-41
30
"You will be engaged to a young woman---but someone else will marry her. You will build a house---but never live in it. You will plant a vineyard---but never eat its grapes.
31
Your cattle will be butchered before your very eyes, but you will not eat any of the meat. Your donkeys will be dragged away while you look on, and they will not be given back to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and there will be no one to help you.
32
Your sons and daughters will be given as slaves to foreigners while you look on. Every day you will strain your eyes, looking in vain for your children to return.
33
A foreign nation will take all the crops that you have worked so hard to grow, while you receive nothing but constant oppression and harsh treatment.
34
Your sufferings will make you lose your mind.
35
The LORD will cover your legs with incurable, painful sores; boils will cover you from head to foot.
36
"The LORD will take you and your king away to a foreign land, where neither you nor your ancestors ever lived before; there you will serve gods made of wood and stone.
37
In the countries to which the LORD will scatter you, the people will be shocked at what has happened to you; they will make fun of you and ridicule you.
38
"You will plant plenty of seed, but reap only a small harvest, because the locusts will eat your crops.
39
You will plant vineyards and take care of them, but you will not gather their grapes or drink wine from them, because worms will eat the vines.
40
Olive trees will grow everywhere in your land, but you will not have any olive oil, because the olives will drop off.
41
You will have sons and daughters, but you will lose them, because they will be taken away as prisoners of war.
Jeremiah 14:2-8
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.
7
My people cry out to me, 'Even though our sins accuse us, help us, LORD, as you have promised. We have turned away from you many times; we have sinned against you.
8
You are Israel's only hope; you are the one who saves us from disaster. Why are you like a stranger in our land, like a traveler who stays for only one night?
Joel 1:10-13
10
The fields are bare; the ground mourns because the grain is destroyed, the grapes are dried up, and the olive trees are withered.
11
Grieve, you farmers; cry, you that take care of the vineyards, because the wheat, the barley, yes all the crops are destroyed.
12
The grapevines and fig trees have withered; all the fruit trees have wilted and died. The joy of the people is gone.
13
Put on sackcloth and weep, you priests who serve at the altar! Go into the Temple and mourn all night! There is no grain or wine to offer your God.
Joel 1:16-18
16
We look on helpless as our crops are destroyed. There is no joy in the Temple of our God.
17
The seeds die in the dry earth. There is no grain to be stored, and so the empty granaries are in ruins.
18
The cattle are bellowing in distress because there is no pasture for them; the flocks of sheep also suffer.
Amos 4:6-10
6
"I was the one who brought famine to all your cities, yet you did not come back to me.
7
I kept it from raining when your crops needed it most. I sent rain on one city, but not on another. Rain fell on one field, but another field dried up.
8
Weak with thirst, the people of several cities went to a city where they hoped to find water, but there was not enough to drink. Still you did not come back to me.
9
"I sent a scorching wind to dry up your crops. The locusts ate up all your gardens and vineyards, your fig trees and olive trees. Still you did not come back to me.
10
"I sent a plague on you like the one I sent on Egypt. I killed your young men in battle and took your horses away. I filled your nostrils with the stink of dead bodies in your camps. Still you did not come back to me.
Haggai 2:16
you would go to a pile of grain expecting to find twenty bushels, but there would be only ten. You would go to draw fifty gallons of wine from a vat, but find only twenty.
Haggai 2:17
I sent scorching winds and hail to ruin everything you tried to grow, but still you did not repent.