Habakkuk 3:17 Cross References - Thomson

¹⁷ Since the fig tree will not flourish, nor will there be fruit on the vines; the product of the olive will fail and the fields will supply no food; For want of food the flocks have failed, and there are no kine in the stalls;

¹⁵ But in case thou wilt not hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God to keep all his commandments which I this day give thee in charge, all these evils shall come upon thee and overtake thee: ¹⁶ Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed thou in the field. ¹⁷ Cursed shall be thy granaries, and thy stores. ¹⁸ Cursed shall be the offspring of thy body, and the products of thy land, thy herds and thy flocks.

³⁰ Thou wilt take a wife, and another man shall have her. Thou wilt build a house, but shall not dwell therein. Thou wilt plant a vineyard, but shalt not gather the grapes thereof. ³¹ Thy ox will be slaughtered before thy face, and thou shalt not eat thereof. Thy ass will be taken from thee, and shall not be restored; thy flocks will be given to thine enemies, and there shall be none to help thee; ³² thy sons, and thy daughters, will be given to another nation, and thine eyes will melt in looking at them; there will be no strength in thy hand. ³³ A nation, which thou knowest not will eat the fruits of thy land, and all thy labours; and thou shalt be injured, and oppressed continually ³⁴ , and driven to madness at the sight of thine eyes, which thou shalt see. ³⁵ The Lord smite thee with a grievous boil on thy knees, and on thy legs, so that thou canst not be healed, from the sole of thy feet to the crown of thy head. ³⁶ The Lord carry away thee, and thy rulers, whom thou mayst set over thee, to a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers knew, that thou mayst there serve other gods; stocks and stones; ³⁷ and be there for a bye word, and a proverb, and a public example to all the nations to which the Lord shall bring thee. ³⁸ There thou shalt carry out much seed into the field, and shalt bring little home, for the locust shall devour it; ³⁹ thou shalt plant a vineyard and dress it; but shalt not press out wine, nor regale thyself from it; for worms shall eat it up. ⁴⁰ Thou shalt have plantations of olive trees, in all thy borders, but shalt not be anointed with oil, for thine olive tree shall cast its fruit: ⁴¹ thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but shalt not have them with thee; for they shall go into captivity.

¹⁷ and they shall devour your harvest and your bread; and they shall devour your sons and your daughters; and they shall devour your flocks and your herds; and they shall devour your vineyards and fig trees and olive orchards, and smite with the sword your fortified cities, in which you trusted.

² Judea mourned and her gates were deserted: and darkness overspread the land and the cry of Jerusalem ascended. ³ When her nobles sent their underlings for water; they went to the wells and found no water and returned with their vessels empty. ⁴ A stop was put to the works of the field because there was no rain. The husbandmen were confounded; they covered their heads. ⁵ The hinds calved in the field and left their young because there was not a green plant. ⁶ The wild asses stood in the forests and snuffed up the wind: their eyes failed because there was no grass. ⁷ Our sins have risen up against us. O Lord, deal with us for Thine own sake: for our sins are many in Thy sight; for we have sinned against Thee. ⁸ Thou, O Lord, art the hope of Israel, and savest in time of troubles. Why art Thou become as a stranger in the land; as a traveller turning aside for a lodging?

¹⁰ because the fields are wasted. Let the land mourn: because the corn hath suffered grievously: wine is dried away; oil is diminished; ¹¹ husbandmen are parched up: Mourn, ye farms, for the wheat and barley, because the harvester is perished from the field. ¹² The vines are withered and the fig trees are diminished; peach and palm and citron trees and all the trees of the field are withered. Because the children of men are ashamed of joy, ¹³ gird yourselves, ye priests, and lament bitterly: sing the song of Woe, ye who minister at the altar; go in and sleep in sackcloth, ye ministers of God. Because sacrifice and libation are withheld from the house of your God.

¹⁶ Food is utterly destroyed before your eyes; joy and gladness, from the house of your God. ¹⁷ The heifers startled at their stalls. Stores are exhausted; wine lakes are gone to ruin, as the corn is blasted, ¹⁸ what shall we substitute for ourselves? The herds of cattle uttered mournful lowings, because there was no pasture for them; and the flocks of sheep are utterly destroyed.

⁶ But as for me, I will give you gnashing of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places. When you returned not to me, saith the Lord, ⁷ I withheld from you the rain three months before harvest; with an intent to rain on one city and on another city not to rain. One part was to be watered, and the part on which I did not rain, to be dried up; ⁸ so that two or three cities should crowd to one city for drink and not be satisfied. And when you turned not to me, saith the Lord, ⁹ I smote you with blasting and mildew: you multiplied your gardens; the caterpillar devoured your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive orchards. When even for this you turned not to me, saith the Lord, ¹⁰ I sent death among you by the way of Egypt, and slew your young men with the sword and gave up your horses to capture: and by your rage I involved your camps in fire. And when even for this you turned not to me, saith the Lord,

¹⁶ When you came to measure twenty measures of barley, it was become ten. And when you went to the wine lake to draw off fifty measures, there were only twenty. ¹⁷ I smote you with blasting and mildew and hail in all the works of your hands when you turned not to me, saith the Lord.