Leviticus 26:20
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.”
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“and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“and your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield its increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and consumed hath been your strength in vain, and your land doth not give her produce, and the tree of the land doth not give its fruit.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Leviticus 26:20 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 4:12When you till the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”
- Leviticus 26:4I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
- Deuteronomy 11:17or the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you. He will shut the heavens so that there will be no rain, nor will the land yield its produce, and you will soon perish from the good land that the LORD is giving you.
- Deuteronomy 28:18The fruit of your womb will be cursed, as well as the produce of your land, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.
- Deuteronomy 28:38You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.
- Deuteronomy 28:42Swarms of locusts will consume all your trees and the produce of your land.
- 1 Kings 18:2So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria,
- Job 31:40then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.
- Psalms 107:34and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
- Psalms 127:1Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain; unless the LORD protects the city, its watchmen stand guard in vain.
- Isaiah 17:11though on the day you plant you make them grow, and on that morning you help your seed sprout— yet the harvest will vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain.
- Isaiah 49:4But I said, “I have labored in vain, I have spent My strength in futility and vanity; yet My vindication is with the LORD, and My reward is with My God.”
- Hosea 2:11I will put an end to all her exultation: her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths— all her appointed feasts.
- Habakkuk 2:13Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?
- Haggai 1:9You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.
- Haggai 2:16from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths, there were but twenty.
- 1 Corinthians 3:6I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.
- Galatians 4:11I fear for you, that my efforts for you may have been in vain.
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