Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Your strength will be spent uselessly, for your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit.

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

and your strength will be used up for nothing. Your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.

International Standard Version

Your strength will be spent in vain, because your land won't yield its produce and the trees of the land won't yield their fruit.

A Conservative Version

and your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.

American Standard Version

and your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield its increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.

Amplified

Your strength will be spent uselessly, for your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit.

Bible in Basic English

And your strength will be used up without profit; for your land will not give her increase and the trees of the field will not give their fruit.

Darby Translation

and your strength shall be spent in vain, and your land shall not yield its produce; and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.

Julia Smith Translation

And your strength shall be exhausted to no purpose: and your land shall not give its produce, and the tree of the land shall not give its fruit

King James 2000

And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield its increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And your strength shall be consumed {in vain}; and your land shall not give its produce, and the land's trees shall not give their fruit.

Modern King James verseion

And your strength shall be spent in vain. For your land shall not yield its increase, neither shall the trees of the field yield their fruits.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And so your labour shall be spent in vain. For your land shall not give her increase, neither the trees of the land shall give their fruits.

NET Bible

Your strength will be used up in vain, your land will not give its yield, and the trees of the land will not produce their fruit.

New Heart English Bible

and your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won't yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

The Emphasized Bible

And your strength shall be spent in vain, - And your land shall not yield her increase, And the trees of the land, shall not yield their fruit.

Webster

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.

World English Bible

and your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won't yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

Youngs Literal Translation

and consumed hath been your strength in vain, and your land doth not give her produce, and the tree of the land doth not give its fruit.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
תּמם 
Tamam 
Usage: 63

in vain
ריק 
Riyq 
Usage: 12

ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

shall not yield
נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

יבוּל 
Y@buwl 
Usage: 13

of the land
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

References

Context Readings

Punishment For Disobedience

19 I will crush your arrogance. You will have no rain, and your land will be as hard as cement. 20 Your strength will be spent uselessly, for your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit. 21 If you act with hostility against me and are unwilling to obey me I will increase the plague on you seven times according to your sins.

Cross References

Psalm 127:1

([Psalm of Solomon]) If Jehovah does not build the house, it is vain for the builders to work on it. If Jehovah does not protect a city, it is vain for the guard to stay alert.

Isaiah 49:4

I said: I have toiled in vain. I have spent my energy for nothing and vanity. Yet, to be sure, the justice due to me is with Jehovah. My reward is with my God.

Leviticus 26:4

I will send you rain at the proper time. Then the land will produce crops and the trees will bear fruit.

Deuteronomy 11:17

Jehovah will become angry with you. He will shut the sky and there will be no rain. Then the ground will not grow any crops. You will quickly disappear from this good land Jehovah is giving you.

Deuteronomy 28:18

Cursed will be the offspring of your body and the produce of your ground, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock.

Deuteronomy 28:38-40

You will plant many crops in your fields, but harvest little for locusts will destroy your crops.

Deuteronomy 28:42

Locusts will take over all your trees and the fruit of your land.

Job 31:40

let thorns grow instead of wheat, and foul weeds instead of barley. The words of Job are ended, JOB QUITE TALKING.

Psalm 107:34

and fertile ground into a layer of salt because of the wickedness of the people living there.

Isaiah 17:11

In that day you will make your plant grow. In the morning you will make your seed flourish; but the harvest will be a heap of ruins in the day of grief and desperate sorrow.

Habakkuk 2:13

Is it for Jehovah of Hosts that the peoples labor for the fire? Do the nations weary themselves for vanity?

Haggai 1:9-11

You looked for much harvest and you received little. When you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? Said Jehovah of Hosts. Because my house lies in waste, while each of you run to his house.

Haggai 2:16

You would go to a pile of grain looking for twenty bushels, but there would be only ten. You would go to draw fifty gallons of wine from a vat and find only twenty.

1 Corinthians 3:6

I have planted, Apollos watered; but God caused the growth.

Galatians 4:11

I fear for you, that I have labored for you to no purpose (and failed).

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