Leviticus 26:20
And your strength shall be spent in vain,—And your land shall not yield her increase, And the trees of the land, shall not yield their fruit.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
19So will I break your pomp of power, And will set your heavens as iron, and your land as bronze;
Cross References
Genesis 4:12Though thou till the ground, it shall not go on to give its vigour to thee. A wanderer and a fugitive, shalt thou be in the earth.
Deuteronomy 11:17So would the anger of Yahweh kindle upon you and he would shut up the heavens, that there should be no rain, and the ground, would not yield her increase,—so should ye perish speedily, from off the good land, which Yahweh is giving unto you.
Deuteronomy 28:38Much seed, shalt thou take out into the field,—and little, shalt thou gather in, for the locust shall consume it.
1 Kings 18:2And Elijah went, to show himself unto Ahab. Now, the famine, was severe in Samaria.
Psalms 107:34A Land of Fruit, into a waste of salt, For the wickedness of them who dwell therein.
Isaiah 17:11In the day when thou plantest, fence thou in, And in the morning, cause thou, thy slip, to blossom,—A harvest will have waved in the day of destiny, and 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 →