Leviticus 26:20
And your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield her produce, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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Genesis 4:12When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth.'
Deuteronomy 11:17and the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and He shut up the heaven, so that there shall be no rain, and the ground shall not yield her fruit; and ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.
Deuteronomy 28:38Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.
1 Kings 18:2And Elijah went to show himself unto Ahab. And the famine was sore in Samaria.
Psalms 107:34A fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Isaiah 17:11In the day of thy planting thou didst make it to grow, and in the morning thou didst make thy seed to blossom — a heap of boughs in the day of grief and of desperate pain.
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 →