Leviticus 26:20
and your strength shall be spent in vain, and your land shall not yield its produce; and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.
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Genesis 4:12When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield thee its strength; a wanderer and fugitive shalt thou be on the earth.
Deuteronomy 11:17and Jehovah's wrath kindle against you, and he shut up the heavens, that there be no rain, and that the ground yield not its produce, and ye perish quickly from off the good land which Jehovah is giving you.
Deuteronomy 28:38Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall devour it.
1 Kings 18:2And Elijah went to shew himself to Ahab. And the famine was severe in Samaria.
Psalms 107:34A fruitful land into a plain of salt, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Isaiah 17:11in the day of thy planting wilt thou make [them] to grow, and on the morrow wilt thou make thy seed to flourish; [but] the harvest will flee in the day of taking possession, and the sorrow will be incurable.
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 →