Jeremiah 12:13
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves to no avail. Bear the shame of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”

Young's Literal Translation
They sowed wheat, and have thorns reaped, They have become sick—they profit not, And they have been ashamed of your increases, Because of the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah.

King James Bible
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.

Hebrew
They have sown
זָרְע֤וּ (zā·rə·‘ū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 2232: To sow, to disseminate, plant, fructify

wheat
חִטִּים֙ (ḥiṭ·ṭîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 2406: Wheat

but harvested
קָצָ֔רוּ (qā·ṣā·rū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 7114: To dock off, curtail, to harvest

thorns.
וְקֹצִ֣ים (wə·qō·ṣîm)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 6975: A thorn, thornbush

They have exhausted themselves
נֶחְל֖וּ (neḥ·lū)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 2470: To be weak or sick

to no
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

avail.
יוֹעִ֑לוּ (yō·w·‘i·lū)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 3276: To confer or gain profit or benefit

Bear the shame
וּבֹ֙שׁוּ֙ (ū·ḇō·šū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 954: To pale, to be ashamed, to be disappointed, delayed

of your harvest
מִתְּבוּאֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם (mit·tə·ḇū·’ō·ṯê·ḵem)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 8393: Product, revenue

because of the fierce
מֵחֲר֖וֹן (mê·ḥă·rō·wn)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 2740: A burning of anger

anger
אַף־ (’ap̄-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 639: The nose, nostril, the face, a person, ire

of the LORD.”
יְהוָֽה׃ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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