38 (A)You will bring out a great amount of seed to the field, but you will gather in little, because (B)the locust will devour it. 39 (C)You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but you will neither drink of the wine nor bring in the harvest, because the worm will eat it. 40 (D)You will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, because your olives will drop off prematurely.

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13 They have (A)sown wheat but have harvested thorns,
They have (B)strained themselves [a]to no profit.
So be ashamed of your (C)produce
Because of the (D)fierce anger of the Lord.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 12:13 Lit they do not profit

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