Leviticus 26:20
Your labour shall be spent in vain, the ground shall not bring forth her increase, nor the trees yield their fruit.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Genesis 4:12When thou shalt till it, it shall not yield to thee its fruit: a fugitive and vagabond shalt thou be upon the earth.
Deuteronomy 11:17And the Lord being angry shut up heaven, that the rain come not down, nor the earth yield her fruit, and you perish quickly from the excellent land, which the Lord will give you.
Deuteronomy 28:38Thou shalt cast much seed into the ground, and gather little: because the locusts shall consume all.
1 Kings 18:2And Elias went to shew himself to Achab, and there was a grievous famine in Samaria.
Psalms 107:34A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Isaiah 17:11In the day of thy planting shall be the wild grape, and in the morning thy seed shall flourish: the harvest is taken away in the day of inheritance, and shall grieve thee much.
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 →