Leviticus 26:20
Your labor will be consumed to no purpose; the land will not bring forth seedlings, nor will the trees provide their fruit.
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Genesis 4:12When you work it, it will not give you its fruit; a vagrant and a fugitive shall you be upon the land.”
Deuteronomy 11:17And the Lord, becoming angry, might close up heaven, so that the rain would not descend, nor would the earth produce her seedlings, and then you would quickly perish from the excellent land, which the Lord will give to you.
Deuteronomy 28:38You will sow much seed upon the ground, but you will harvest little. For the locusts will devour everything.
1 Kings 18:2Therefore, Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. For there was a severe famine in Samaria.
Isaiah 17:11In the day of your planting, the wild grapevine and your morning seed will flourish. The harvest has been taken away to the day of inheritance, and you will grieve heavily.
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 →