John 4:37

I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

You will have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you won’t anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off.

Their wealth will become a plunder, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won’t inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won’t drink their wine.

He gathered the children of Ammon and Amalek to himself; and he went and struck Israel, and they possessed the city of palm trees.

The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the seashore for multitude.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns. They have exhausted themselves, and profit nothing. You will be ashamed of your fruits, because of Yahweh’s fierce anger.”

Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck. Yahweh says: “Arise, go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of the east.

Therefore, because you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

You will sow, but won’t reap. You will tread the olives, but won’t anoint yourself with oil; and crush grapes, but won’t drink the wine.

but Abraham gave gifts to the sons of Abraham’s concubines. While he still lived, he sent them away from Isaac his son, eastward, to the east country.

Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.

Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

You will betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. You will build a house, and you won’t dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, and not use its fruit.

You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it.

They encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza. They left no sustenance in Israel, and no sheep, ox, or donkey.

Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east assembled themselves together; and they passed over, and encamped in the valley of Jezreel.

Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the children of the east; for there fell one hundred twenty thousand men who drew sword.

The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, oppressed you; and you cried to me, and I saved you out of their hand.

Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.

His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.

then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.”

I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted.

Amalek dwells in the land of the South. The Hittite, the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwell in the hill country. The Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along the side of the Jordan.”

He looked at Amalek, and took up his parable, and said, “Amalek was the first of the nations, But his latter end shall come to destruction.”

You murmured in your tents, and said, “Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.

They will eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed. They also won’t leave you grain, new wine, oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.

When Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation, even the heads of the thousands of Israel that were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them well.

So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the children of the east came up against them.

God has delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb! What was I able to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger was abated toward him when he had said that.

Samuel said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. You have indeed done all this evil; yet don’t turn away from following Yahweh, but serve Yahweh with all your heart.

David was told, “Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors.”

He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth.

He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.

He will restore that for which he labored, and will not swallow it down. He will not rejoice according to the substance that he has gotten.

They cut their food in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.

For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.

Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Not to us, Yahweh, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your loving kindness, and for your truth’s sake.

Our oxen will pull heavy loads. There is no breaking in, and no going away, and no outcry in our streets.

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

By patience a ruler is persuaded. A soft tongue breaks the bone.

Then he called to me, and spoke to me, saying, “Behold, those who go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country.”

You didn’t anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment.

But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.

for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn’t lay down, and reap that which you didn’t sow.’

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us: if prophecy, let’s prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”