Leviticus 26:20
and your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won't yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.
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In Context
19I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass;
Cross References
Genesis 4:12From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth."
Deuteronomy 11:17and the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord gives you.
Deuteronomy 28:38You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.
1 Kings 18:2Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria.
Psalms 107:34and a fruitful land into a salt waste,for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
Isaiah 17:11In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
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 →