Leviticus 26:20

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Your strength

For your land

General references

Micah 6:15

Bible References

Your strength

A Solomonic song of ascents.Unless 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.

But 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.

Is it not from the Lord of Hosts
that the peoples labor only to fuel the fire
and countries exhaust themselves for nothing?

I am fearful for you, that perhaps my labor for you has been wasted.

For your land

I 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.

Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you. He will close 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.

Your descendants will be cursed,
and your land’s produce,
the young of your herds,
and the newborn of your flocks.

then let thorns grow instead of wheat
and stinkweed instead of barley.

The words of Job are concluded.

and fruitful land into salty wasteland,
because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.

“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 Hosts. “Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.

what state were you in? When someone came to a grain heap of 20 measures, it only amounted to 10; when one came to the winepress to dip 50 measures from the vat, it only amounted to 20.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.

General references

You will sow but not reap;
you will press olives
but not anoint yourself with oil;
and you will tread grapes
but not drink the wine.