Deuteronomy 28:30-37 –
You will be pledged to be married to
a woman, but another will take her and rape her. You will build a house, but you will not
live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to
enjoy its fruit. Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat
none of it. Your donkey will be forcibly taken from you and will not be
returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them. Your sons and daughters
will be given to another nation, and you will wear out your eyes watching
for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand. A people that you do not
know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but
cruel oppression all your days. The sights you see will
drive you mad. The Lord will afflict your knees and legs with
painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet
to the top of your head. The Lord will drive you and the king you set over you to a nation unknown to
you or your ancestors. There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone. You will become a thing of
horror, a byword and an object of ridicule among all the
peoples where the Lord will drive you.
Haggai
1:6 – You have planted much, but
harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You
put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only
to put them in a purse with holes in it.”
1
Samuel 12:25 – Yet if you persist in
doing evil, both you and your king will perish.”
Micah
6:16 – You have
observed the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you
have followed their traditions. Therefore I will give you over to
ruin and your people to derision; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”
Jeremiah
25:9 – I will summon all
the peoples of the north and my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,” declares the Lord, “and I will bring them against this land and its
inhabitants and against all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy them and make them an object of horror
and scorn, and an everlasting ruin.
Application:
- · “Planted much…harvested little” was a curse for disobedience.
- · If the nation should persist in covenant-breaking conduct, it will bring upon itself its own destruction.
- · Disobedience brings disaster.
- · “Servant” is used for Nebuchadnezzar not in the sense of “worshiper” but of “vassal” or “agent of judgment”, just as the pagan ruler Cyrus is called the Lord’s “shepherd” and His “anointed”.
All Scripture verses taken from NIV
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