Leviticus 26:20
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.
Leviticus 26:20 in other translations
| BSB | 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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| WEB | 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. |
| ASV | 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. |
| YLT | 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. |
| DARBY | and your strength shall be spent in vain, and your land shall not yield its produce; and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit. |
| BBE | And your strength will be used up without profit; for your land will not give her increase and the trees of the field will not give their fruit. |
| Webster | 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. |
What does Leviticus 26:20 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Leviticus 26:14-39
After God has set the blessing before them which would make them a happy people if they would be obedient, he here sets the curse before them, the evils which would make them miserable, if they were disobedient. Two things would bring ruin. 1. A contempt of God's commandments. They that reject the precept, will come at last to renounce the covenant. 2. A contempt of his corrections. If they will not learn obedience…
Leviticus 26:20 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Leviticus 26:20
- Deuteronomy 11:17
And then the Lord’s wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord giveth you.
- Psalms 127:1
A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
- Isaiah 49:4
Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.
- Leviticus 26:4
Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
- Habakkuk 2:13
Behold, is it not of the Lord of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
- Haggai 1:9-11
Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit. And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.
- Haggai 2:16
Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.
- Galatians 4:11
I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
- Psalms 107:34
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
- Deuteronomy 28:42
All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.
- Job 31:40
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
- Isaiah 17:11
In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
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Context
- Leviticus 26:19
And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
- Leviticus 26:20
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.
- Leviticus 26:21
And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
Leviticus 26:20 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y vuestra fuerza se consumirá en vano; que vuestra tierra no dará su esquilmo, y los árboles de la tierra no darán su fruto. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et vous dépenserez votre force en vain, et votre terre ne donnera pas son rapport, et les arbres de la terre ne donneront pas leur fruit. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | und eure Kraft wird sich umsonst verbrauchen, und euer Land wird seinen Ertrag nicht geben, und die Bäume des Feldes werden ihre Frucht nicht geben. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Consumetur incassum labor vester, non proferet terra germen, nec arbores poma præbebunt. |