⁸ By planting the seed of evil a man will get in the grain of sorrow, and the rod of his wrath will be broken.

⁸ What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.

³ For the rod of sinners will not be resting on the heritage of the upright; so that the upright may not put out their hands to evil.

¹³ You have been ploughing sin, you have got in a store of evil, the fruit of deceit has been your food: for you put faith in your way, in the number of your men of war.

³¹ For through the voice of the Lord the Assyrian will be broken, and the Lord's rod will be lifted up against him.

⁷ Be not tricked; God is not made sport of: for whatever seed a man puts in, that will he get back as grain.

⁸ Because he who puts in the seed of the flesh will of the flesh get the reward of death; but he who puts in the seed of the Spirit will of the Spirit get the reward of eternal life.

⁷ For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.

²⁹ Be not glad, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod which was on you is broken: for out of the snake's root will come a poison-snake, and its fruit will be a winged poison-snake.

⁵ Ho! Assyrian, the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my punishment!

⁴ For by your hand the yoke on his neck and the rod on his back, even the rod of his cruel master, have been broken, as in the day of Midian.

³ In the mouth of the foolish man is a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will keep them safe.