Leviticus 26:20

Leviticus 26:20 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)Your strength will be spent in vain, because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of your land yield their fruit.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.
• New King James Version (NKJV)And your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.

Context of Leviticus 26:20

18“But if after these things you will not obey me, I will proceed to discipline you seven times for your sins. 19I will break down your strong pride. I will make your sky like iron and your land like bronze, and your strength will be used up for nothing. Your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit. 21“If you act with hostility toward me and are unwilling to obey me, I will multiply your plagues seven times for your sins. 22I will send wild animals against you that will deprive you of your children, ravage your livestock, and reduce your numbers until your roads are deserted.

Leviticus 26:20 word by word

וְתַ֥ם לָרִ֖יק כֹּחֲכֶ֑ם וְלֹֽא־תִתֵּ֤ן אַרְצְכֶם֙ אֶת־יְבוּלָ֔הּ וְעֵ֣ץ הָאָ֔רֶץ לֹ֥א יִתֵּ֖ן פִּרְיֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And your strengthכֹּחַkôach kôach · strengthH3581
• shall be spentתָּמַםtâmam · to finishH8552
• in vainרִיקrîyq · vainH7385
• for your landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• shall not yieldנָתַןnâthan · to give: giveH5414
• her increaseיְבוּלyebûl · cropsH2981
• neither shall the treesעֵץ‛êts · treeH6086
• their fruitsפְּרִיperîy · fruitH6529

Cross-references for Leviticus 26:20

• Psalms 127:1Unless the Lord builds a house, its builders labor over it in vain; unless the Lord watches over a city, the watchman stays alert in vain.
• Isaiah 49:4But I myself said: I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and futility; yet my vindication is with the Lord, and my reward is with my God.
• Habakkuk 2:13Is it not from the Lord of Armies that the peoples labor only to fuel the fire and countries exhaust themselves for nothing?
• Galatians 4:11I am fearful for you, that perhaps my labor for you has been wasted.
• Leviticus 26:4I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
• Deuteronomy 11:17Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you. He will shut the sky, and there will be no rain; the land will not yield its produce, and you will perish quickly from the good land the Lord is giving you.
• Deuteronomy 28:18Your offspring will be cursed, and your land’s produce, the young of your herds, and the newborn of your flocks.
• Job 31:40then let thorns grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley. The words of Job are concluded.
• Psalms 107:34and fruitful land into salty wasteland, because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.
• Haggai 1:9“You expected much, but then it amounted to little. When you brought the harvest to your house, I ruined it. Why?” This is the declaration of the Lord of Armies. “Because my house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.
• Haggai 2:16what state were you in? When someone came to a grain heap of twenty measures, it only amounted to ten; when one came to the winepress to dip fifty measures from the vat, it only amounted to twenty.
• 1 Corinthians 3:6I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.

Commentaries on Leviticus 26:20

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3-45Verses 3-45 As “the book of the covenant” Exodus 23:20-33, so does this collection of laws contained in the Book of Leviticus. But the former passage relates to the conquest of the land of promise, this one to the subsequent history of the nation. The longer similar passage in Deuteronomy Leviticus 26:4 Rain in due season - The periodical rains, on which the fertility of the holy land so much depends, are here spoken of. There are two wet seasons, called…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-39Verses 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 by the things they suffer…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 19-20If God does not send rain, the ground will become hard and unproductive.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 14-3914-15. But if ye will not hearken unto me, &c.--In proportion to the great and manifold privileges bestowed upon the Israelites would be the extent of their national criminality and the severity of their national punishments if they disobeyed.Read the comment

Topics related to Leviticus 26:20

• Backsliders
• Blessing
• Contingencies
• Disobedience to God
• Famine
• Judgments
• Punishment
• Reward
• Seven
• Sin
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

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• Faintness
• Fall
• Heathen
• Jerusalem
• Rid
• Scatter
• Sword

Commentaries on Leviticus 26

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings