Leviticus 26:20
and your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
19And I will break the pride of your power. And I will make your sky as iron, and your earth as brass,
Cross References
Genesis 4:12When thou till the ground, it shall not henceforth yield to thee its strength. A fugitive and a wanderer thou shall be on the earth.
Deuteronomy 11:17and the anger of LORD be kindled against you, and he shut up the heavens, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit, and ye perish quickly from off the good land which LORD gives you.
Deuteronomy 28:38Thou shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in, for the locust shall consume it.
1 Kings 18:2And Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. And the famine was severe in Samaria.
Psalms 107:34a fruitful land into a salt desert, for the wickedness of those who dwell therein.
Isaiah 17:11In the day of thy planting thou hedge it in, and in the morning thou make thy seed to blossom. But the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 26:15-40
Threatenings. ( b. c. 1490.) 14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; 15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: 16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17 And I will set my face… Read the whole commentary →