Leviticus 26:20
Your strength will be completely wasted because your land won't produce crops, and your trees won't produce fruit.
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Genesis 4:12When you cultivate the ground, it won't produce crops for you. You'll be always on the run, wandering all over the earth.”
Deuteronomy 11:17or the Lord will become angry with you. He won't send any rain, and the land won't produce any crops, and you will soon die, even in the good land that the Lord is giving you.
Deuteronomy 28:38You will sow a lot of seed in the field, but harvest very little because the locusts will destroy it.
1 Kings 18:2So Elijah went to appear before Ahab. In the meantime the famine had become severe in Samaria.
Psalms 107:34Fruitful ground becomes a salty wasteland because of the wickedness of those living there.
Isaiah 17:11even though you make them grow on the day that you plant them, and have them blossom in the morning that you sow them, your harvest will heap of trouble on a day of grief and pain that cannot be cured.
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 →