Isaiah 17:11
In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
Cross-reference
Isaiah 18:5 uses the same harvest imagery: before the grape ripens, God cuts off the branches. Both depict premature destruction of the crop.
Isaiah 65:13 contrasts servants who eat with rebels who go hungry—this harvest ruin is the hunger and shame of the unfaithful.
Isaiah 40:24 shows plants that are not planted withering away, a similar metaphor of divine judgment causing agricultural failure.
Isaiah 65:14 contrasts servants' gladness with rebels' pain—the incurable pain here parallels the wailing of the rebellious.
Hosea 8:7 says they sow wind and reap whirlwind, with grain yielding nothing — a direct parallel to the failed harvest here.
Hosea 9:2 says the threshing floor and wine vat will not feed them, echoing the harvest failure and grief of this verse.
Hosea 9:16 echoes this judgment imagery: Ephraim's root dries up and they bear no fruit—harvest becomes ruin.
Hosea 10:12-15 uses the same sowing/reaping metaphor: plowing iniquity yields injustice—here harvest ruins come from wickedness.
Joel 1:5-12 details a locust plague devastating crops—this materializes the harvest ruin imagery for the day of the Lord.
Psalm 129:7 uses the same failed harvest imagery—reapers not filling their hands—as a curse on enemies, just like the heap of grief.
Hosea 2:9 has God taking back the harvest as judgment for unfaithfulness, directly paralleling the failed harvest as divine punishment.
Joel 1:11 mourns that the harvest has perished, using the same agricultural disaster to depict God's judgment.
Haggai 1:9 describes looking for much but getting little because of neglect of God’s house, echoing the futile labor here.
Job 15:31 warns that trusting in vanity brings vain recompense, paralleling the futile harvest that results from false hope.