Bible verse
You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.
Deuteronomy 28:38 · BSB
The verses around it, from Deuteronomy 28.
34 You will be driven mad by the sights you see.
35 The LORD will afflict you with painful, incurable boils on your knees and thighs, from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
36 The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.
37 You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
38 You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.
39 You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.
40 You will have olive trees throughout your territory but will never anoint yourself with oil, because the olives will drop off.
41 You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.
42 Swarms of locusts will consume all your trees and the produce of your land.
KJV
Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather [but] little in; for the locust shall consume it.
ASV
Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.
ERV
Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.
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