Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.
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Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.
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And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
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And your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield her produce, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.
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Passages linked to Leviticus 26:20 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 11:17 and Yahweh’s anger be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky so that there is no rain, and the land doesn’t yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you.
- Psalms 127:1 Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.
- Isaiah 49:4 But I said, “I have labored in vain. I have spent my strength in vain for nothing; yet surely the justice due to me is with Yahweh, and my reward with my God.”
- Leviticus 26:4 then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
- Habakkuk 2:13 Behold, isn’t it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
- Deuteronomy 28:18 The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock will be cursed.
- Deuteronomy 28:38-40 You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it. You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink of the wine, nor harvest, because worms will eat them. You will have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you won’t anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off.
- Deuteronomy 28:42 Locusts will consume all of your trees and the fruit of your ground.
- Job 31:40 let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.
- Psalms 107:34 and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
- Isaiah 17:11 In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
- Haggai 1:9-11 “You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says Yahweh of Armies, “Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house. Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit. I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground produces, on men, on livestock, and on all the labor of the hands.”
- Haggai 2:16 Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.
- 1 Corinthians 3:6 I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
- Galatians 4:11 I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, labor.
Or, labor.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lev 26:20 And your strength shall be spent in…
Lev 26:20 And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
Ver. 20. Your land shall not yield.] See this fulfilled. {Jer 14:1-2, &c., and Joe 1:12 Jer 8:13} And yet their country was called Sumen totius orbis. Cornelius Tacitus yields it to be a fruitful country. So did Rabshakeh long before. {2Ki 18:32}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Your strength shall be spent in vain; ploughing, and…
Your strength shall be spent in vain; ploughing, and sowing, and tilling the ground.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And if ye walk contrary unto me,.... To his…
And if ye walk contrary unto me,.... To his mind and will, to his laws, commands, and ordinances, showing no regard unto them by a walk and conversation agreeably to them, but neglecting and breaking them continually; or by chance, as the Targum of Jonathan, not with any intention and design to obey the Lord, and to honour and glorify him, but in a careless and indifferent manner, having no regard to the law of God, only now and then, as it happens, act according to it, but having no concern for the honour and glory of God:
and will not hearken unto me; to his voice in his laws and his precepts, or by his prophets, exhorting them to obedience to them:
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I will bring seven times more plagues upon you, according to your sins; greater and sorer punishments still, and these more frequently repeated, and in proportion to their transgressions of his righteous laws.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain In vain - in plowing, and sowing, and tilling…
In vain - in plowing, and sowing, and tilling the ground.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (20) And your strength shall be spent in vain.—That…
(20) And your strength shall be spent in vain.—That is, with the heaven over them as metal, their labour expended in ploughing, digging, and sowing will be perfectly useless.
Your land shall not yield her increase, as no amount of human labour will make up for the want of rain. In Deu_11:17, where the same punishment is threatened, and the same phrase is used, the Authorised Version unnecessarily obliterates the identity of the words in the original by rendering them “the land yield not her fruit.”
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