They sow the wind, and so they will reap the whirlwind! The stalk does not have any standing grain; it will not produce any flour. Even if it were to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it all up.

It will produce thorns and thistles for you, but you will eat the grain ¹  of the field.

They camped by the Jordan, from Beth-jeshimoth as far as Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.

You uprooted a vine ¹  from Egypt; you drove out nations and transplanted it.

The trees of the Lord ¹  receive all the rain they need, ²  the cedars of Lebanon which he planted,

The sluggard will not plow ¹  during the planting season, ²  so at harvest time he looks ³  for the crop ⁴  but has nothing.

The one who sows ¹  iniquity will reap trouble, and the rod of his fury ²  will end.

She considers ¹  a field and buys it; from her own income ²  she plants a vineyard.

I designed ¹  royal gardens ²  and parks ³  for myself, and I planted all kinds of fruit trees in them.

They will build houses and live in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

And there are times when I promise to build up and establish ¹  a nation or kingdom.

‘Build houses and settle down. Plant gardens and eat what they produce.

So neither the one who plants counts for anything, ¹  nor the one who waters, but God who causes the growth.

We are coworkers belonging to God. ¹  You are God’s field, God’s building.

If we sowed spiritual blessings among you, is it too much to reap material things from you?

Indeed ¹  Israel ²  is the vineyard of the Lord who commands armies, the people ³  of Judah are the cultivated place in which he took delight. He waited for justice, but look what he got – disobedience! ⁴  He waited for fairness, but look what he got – cries for help! ⁵ 

Abraham ¹  planted a tamarisk tree ²  in Beer Sheba. There he worshiped the Lord, ³  the eternal God.

When Isaac planted in that land, he reaped in the same year a hundred times what he had sown, ¹  because the Lord blessed him. ² 

When Moses set up the tabernacle and put its bases in place, he set up its frames, attached its bars, and set up its posts.

You, by your power, ¹  defeated nations and settled our fathers on their land; ²  you crushed ³  the people living there ⁴  and enabled our ancestors to occupy it. ⁵