He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.

The farmer who works hard ought to have the first share of the crops.

so ¹  he thought to himself, ²  ‘What should I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ ³ 

then let me sow ¹  and let another eat, and let my crops ²  be uprooted.

Where there are no oxen, the feeding trough is clean, but an abundant harvest is produced by strong oxen. ¹ 

¹ “For six years ²  you are to sow your land and gather in its produce.

Whirring locusts ¹  will take over every tree and all the produce of your soil.

Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, ¹  the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east would attack them. ² 

The more years there are, ¹  the more you may make its purchase price, and the fewer years there are, ²  the less you must make its purchase price, because he is only selling to you a number of years of ³  produce.

We have not built any houses to live in. We do not own any vineyards, fields, or crops.

By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

Then ¹  he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the land sprouted with a harvest.

During the seven years of abundance the land produced large, bountiful harvests. ¹ 

But the wheat and the spelt ¹  were not struck, for they are later crops.) ² 

Honor ¹  the Lord from your wealth and from the first fruits of all your crops; ² 

You may buy it from your fellow citizen according to the number of years since ¹  the last jubilee; he may sell it to you according to the years of produce that are left. ² 

They invaded the land ¹  and devoured ²  its crops ³  all the way to Gaza. They left nothing for the Israelites to eat, ⁴  and they took away ⁵  the sheep, oxen, and donkeys.

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 

If you say, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow and gather our produce?’

I will give you your rains in their time so that ¹  the land will give its yield and the trees of the field will produce their fruit. ²