38 (A)You shall bring out much seed to the field but you will gather in little, for (B)the locust will consume it. 39 (C)You shall plant and cultivate vineyards, but you will neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm will devour them. 40 (D)You shall have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off.

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13 “They have (A)sown wheat and have reaped thorns,
They have (B)strained themselves [a]to no profit.
But be ashamed of your [b](C)harvest
Because of the (D)fierce anger of the Lord.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 12:13 Lit they do not profit
  2. Jeremiah 12:13 Lit products