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

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

But I said, "I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely the justice [due] to me is with Yahweh, and my reward with my God."

Behold, isn't it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.

For your land

then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

and the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you.

The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock shall be cursed.

let briars grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Job are ended.

and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

"You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?" says Yahweh of Armies, "Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.

Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.

I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.

General references

You will sow, but won't reap. You will tread the olives, but won't anoint yourself with oil; and crush grapes, but won't drink the wine.