Leviticus 26:20

and your strength has been consumed in vain, and your land does not give her produce, and the tree of the land does not give its fruit.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.

In Context

19and I have broken the pride of your strength, and have made your heavens as iron, and your earth as bronze;

21And if you walk with Me [in] opposition, and are not willing to listen to Me, then I have added to you a plague sevenfold, according to your sins,

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Cross References

Genesis 4:12when you till the ground, it will not add to give its strength to you—a wanderer, even a trembling one, you are in the earth.”

Deuteronomy 11:17and the anger of YHWH has burned against you, and He has restrained the heavens and there is no rain, and the ground does not give her increase, and you have perished quickly from off the good land which YHWH is giving to you.

Deuteronomy 28:38You take much seed out into the field, and you gather little in, for the locust consumes it;

1 Kings 18:2and Elijah goes to appear to Ahab. And the famine is severe in Samaria,

Psalms 107:34A fruitful land becomes a barren place, || For the wickedness of its inhabitants.

Isaiah 17:11You cause your plant to become great in the day, || And make your seed to flourish in the morning, || The harvest [is] a heap in a day of overflowing, || And of mortal 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 →

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