Leviticus 26:20

Your strength will be used up for nothing, because your land will not produce its harvest, and your trees in the land will not produce their fruit.

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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

19I will break your pride in your power. I will make the sky over you like iron and your land like bronze.

21If you walk against me and will not listen to me, I will bring seven times more blows on you, in proportion to your sins.

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Cross References

Genesis 4:12When you cultivate the ground, from now on it will not yield to you its strength. A fugitive and a wanderer you will be in the earth.”

Deuteronomy 11:17so that the anger of Yahweh is not kindled against you; and so that he does not shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain, and the land will not yield its fruit, and so that you perish quickly from off the good land that Yahweh is giving you.

Deuteronomy 28:38You will take much seed out into the field, but will gather little seed in, for the locusts will consume it.

1 Kings 18:2Elijah went to show himself to Ahab; now the famine was severe in Samaria.

Psalms 107:34and a fruitful land into a barren place 1 because of the wickedness of its people. 1

Isaiah 17:11on the day you plant and hedge and cultivate. Soon your seed will grow, 1 but the harvest will fail on a day of grief and of desperate sorrow. 1

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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