^38 (A)“You shall carry much seed out to the field but gather little in, for ^(B)the locust shall ^[a]consume it. ³⁹ You shall plant vineyards and tend them, but you shall neither drink of the ^(C)wine nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them. ⁴⁰ You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives shall drop off.

^9 (A)“You looked for much, but indeed it came to little; and when you brought it home, ^(B)I blew it away. Why?” says the Lord of hosts. “Because of My house that is in ruins, while every one of you runs to his own house.

¹⁰ Therefore ^(A)the heavens above you withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.

¹⁶ since those days, ^(A)when one came to a heap of twenty ephahs, there were but ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty baths from the press, there were but twenty.

^17 (A)I struck you with blight and mildew and hail ^(B)in all the labors of your hands; ^(C)yet you did not turn to Me,’ says the Lord.