New American Standard Bible 1995
Leviticus 26:20
201Your strength will be spent uselessly, for your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit.
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
18If also after these things you do not obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. 19I will also break down your pride of power; I will also make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze. Your strength will be spent uselessly, for your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit. 21‘If then, you act with hostility against Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you seven times according to your sins. 22I will let loose among you the beasts of the field, which will bereave you of your children and destroy your cattle and reduce your number so that your roads lie deserted.
Read all of Leviticus 26Leviticus 26:20 word by word
וְתַ֥ם לָרִ֖יק כֹּחֲכֶ֑ם וְלֹֽא־תִתֵּ֤ן אַרְצְכֶם֙ אֶת־יְבוּלָ֔הּ וְעֵ֣ץ הָאָ֔רֶץ לֹ֥א יִתֵּ֖ן פִּרְיֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Leviticus 26:20
- Psalms 127:1Unless the Lord builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the Lord guards the city, The watchman keeps awake in vain.
- Isaiah 49:4But I said, “I have toiled in vain, I have spent My strength for nothing and vanity; Yet surely the justice due to Me is with the Lord, And My reward with My God.”
- Habakkuk 2:13Is it not indeed from the Lord of hosts That peoples toil for fire, And nations grow weary for nothing?
- Galatians 4:11I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored over you in vain.
- Leviticus 26:4then I shall give you rains in their season, so that 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, and He will shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain and the ground will not yield its fruit; and you will perish quickly from the good land which the Lord is giving you.
- Deuteronomy 28:18“Cursed shall be the offspring of your body and the produce of your ground, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock.
- Job 31:40Let briars grow instead of wheat, And stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.
- Psalms 107:34A fruitful land into a salt waste, Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
- Haggai 1:9“You look for much, but behold, it comes to little; when you bring it home, I blow it away. Why?” declares the Lord of hosts, “Because of My house which lies desolate, while each of you runs to his own house.
- Haggai 2:16from that time when one came to a grain heap of twenty measures, there would be only ten; and when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there would be only twenty.
- 1 Corinthians 3:6I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing 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
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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
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