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

18And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. 19And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: 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. 21And 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. 22I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.

Leviticus 26:20 word by word

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

• 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 127:1Except Yhwh build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except Yhwh keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
• Isaiah 49:4Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with Yhwh, and my work with my God.
• Habakkuk 2:13Behold, is it not of Yhwh of Armies that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
• Galatians 4:11I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
• Leviticus 26:4Then 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.
• Deuteronomy 11:17And then Yhwh'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 Yhwh giveth you.
• Deuteronomy 28:18Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
• Job 31:40Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
• Psalms 107:34A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
• Haggai 1:9Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith Yhwh of Armies. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
• Haggai 2:16Since 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.
• 1 Corinthians 3:6I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

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)

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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