יְגִיעַ

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”

A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.

I also shook out the folds of my robe and said, “May God likewise shake out of his house and possessions every man who does not keep this promise. May such a man be shaken out and have nothing!” The whole assembly said, “Amen,” and they praised the LORD. And the people did as they had promised.

Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?

Can you rely on his great strength? Will you leave your hard work to him?

She treats her young harshly, as if not her own, with no concern that her labor was in vain.

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

May the creditor seize all he owns, and strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.

This is what the LORD says: “The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, along with the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you and will be yours; they will trudge behind you; they will come over in chains and bow down to you. They will confess to you: ‘God is indeed with you, and there is no other; there is no other God.’”

Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of foods.

From our youth, that shameful god has consumed what our fathers have worked for—their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.

I will give away all the wealth of this city—all its products and valuables, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah—to their enemies. They will plunder them, seize them, and carry them off to Babylon.

They will treat you with hatred, take all for which you have worked, and leave you naked and bare, so that the shame of your prostitution will be exposed. Your indecency and promiscuity

And Ephraim boasts: “How rich I have become! I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they can find in me no iniquity that is sinful.”

I have summoned a drought on the fields and on the mountains, on the grain, new wine, and oil, and on whatever the ground yields, on man and beast, and on all the labor of your hands.”