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.
• 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.
• New Living Translation (NLT)All your work will be for nothing, for your land will yield no crops, and your trees will bear no fruit.

Context of Leviticus 26:20

18“ ‘If after all this you will not listen to me, I will punish you for your sins seven times over. 19I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze. 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. 21“ ‘If you remain hostile toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over, as your sins deserve. 22I will send wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few in number that your roads will be 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 the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain.
• Isaiah 49:4But I said, “I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing at all. Yet what is due me is in the Lord’s hand, and my reward is with my God.”
• Habakkuk 2:13Has not the Lord Almighty determined that the people’s labor is only fuel for the fire, that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?
• Galatians 4:11I fear for you, that somehow I have wasted my efforts on you.
• Leviticus 26:4I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit.
• Deuteronomy 11:17Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you, and he will shut up the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield no produce, and you will soon perish from the good land the Lord is giving you.
• Deuteronomy 28:18The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
• Job 31:40then let briers come up instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.
• Psalms 107:34and fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the wickedness of those who lived there.
• Haggai 1:9“You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why?” declares the Lord Almighty. “Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with your own house.
• Haggai 2:16When anyone came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When anyone went to a wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were only twenty.
• 1 Corinthians 3:6I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow.

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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• Enjoy
• 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