Leviticus 26:20

And your strength will be used up without profit; for your land will not give her increase and the trees of the field will not give their fruit.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

19And the pride of your strength will be broken, and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as brass;

21And if you still go against me and will not give ear to me, I will put seven times more punishments on you because of your sins.

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Cross References

Genesis 4:12No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth.

Deuteronomy 11:17For if you do so, the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, and the heaven will be shut up so that there is no rain and the land will give no fruit; and in a very little time you will be cut off from the good land which the Lord is giving you.

Deuteronomy 28:38You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it.

1 Kings 18:2So Elijah went to let Ahab see him. Now there was no food to be had in Samaria.

Psalms 107:34He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.

Isaiah 17:11In the day of your planting you were watching its growth, and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is wasted away in the day of grief and bitter 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 →

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