Jeremiah 12:13
They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the Lord.
Cross-reference
Leviticus 26:16 includes the covenant curse of sowing in vain with enemies eating the harvest, directly matching the failed sowing in Jeremiah 12:13.
Deuteronomy 28:38 promises that locusts will consume the harvest after much sowing, reinforcing the agricultural failure as a covenant curse.
Isaiah 55:2 asks why spend labor on what does not satisfy — directly paralleling the wasted effort and empty results described in this verse.
Micah 6:15 similarly pronounces sowing without reaping and treading without enjoyment, linking the judgment to covenant unfaithfulness.
Habakkuk 2:13 declares that peoples' labor for fire and nations weary themselves for nothing — the same futility of human effort under divine judgment.
Haggai 1:6 echoes the same futility: people sow much but harvest little, earning wages only to lose them, as divine judgment for misplaced priorities.
Haggai 2:17 explicitly names blight, mildew, and hail as God's judgment — the same agricultural disasters implied by the failed harvest here.
Genesis 3:18 describes thorns and thistles as the curse on the ground — the same cursed land that produces thorns instead of grain here.
Deuteronomy 28:30 lists curses of sowing but not reaping — the same futility under divine judgment as here.
Isaiah 17:10 shows that forgetting God leads to planting without enjoyment — the same principle of futile labor due to sin.
Hosea 8:7 uses the identical sowing/reaping metaphor: they sow wind and reap whirlwind — directly echoing this judgment.
Haggai 2:16 recalls a time when harvests fell short — a direct parallel to the failed sowing and reaping described here as covenant curse.
Romans 6:21 asks what fruit came from shameful deeds — ending in death, just as the failed harvest here yields only shame and no profit.
Galatians 6:8 applies the sowing/reaping metaphor to spiritual choices — a broader principle that echoes the judgment here.