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 Song of degrees for Solomon. Unless Jehovah builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; unless Jehovah keeps the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.

Then I said, I have labored in vain; I have spent My strength for nothing, and in vain; yet surely My judgment is with Jehovah, and My work with My God.

Behold, is it not for Jehovah of Hosts that the people labor only for fire; yea, the nations weary themselves only for vanity?

I fear for you, lest somehow I have labored among you in vain.

For your land

then 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.

and Jehovah's wrath be kindled against you, and He shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain, and so that the land will not yield her fruit, and you perish quickly from off the good land which Jehovah gives you.

The fruit of your body shall be cursed, and the fruit of your land, the increase of your cows, and the flocks of your sheep.

let thorns come forth instead of wheat, and weeds instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

a fruitful land to a salty desert, because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

You looked for much, and behold, little! And when you brought it home, then I blew on it. Why, says Jehovah of Hosts? Because of My House that is waste, and you, each man runs to his own house.

from then onward, one came to a heap of twenty measures, and there were but ten; one came to the wine vat to draw off fifty from the winepress, and there were but twenty.

I have planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.

General references

You shall sow, but you shall not reap; you shall tread the olives, but you shall not anoint yourself with oil; and sweet wine, but shall not drink wine.