Leviticus 26:20
Good News Translation
All your hard work will do you no good, because your land will not produce crops and the trees will not bear fruit.

New Revised Standard Version
Your strength shall be spent to no purpose: your land shall not yield its produce, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.

Contemporary English Version
All of your hard work will be for nothing--and there will be no harvest of grain or fruit.

New American Bible
so that your strength will be spent in vain; your land will bear no crops, and its trees no fruit.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Your labour shall be spent in vain: the ground shall not bring forth her increase: nor the trees yield their fruit.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Your labour shall be spent in vain: the ground shall not bring forth her increase: nor the trees yield their fruit.

your strength

Psalm 127:1 A gradual canticle of Solomon. Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. Unless the Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain that keepeth it.

Isaiah 49:4 And I said: I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength without cause and in vain: therefore my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.

Habakkuk 2:13 Are not these things from the Lord of hosts? for the people shall labour in a great fire: and the nations in vain, and they shall faint.

Galatians 4:11 I am afraid of you, lest perhaps I have laboured in vain among you.

for your land

Leviticus 26:4 And the ground shall bring forth its increase: and the trees shall be filled with fruit.

Deuteronomy 11:17 And the Lord being angry shut up heaven, that the rain come not down, nor the earth yield her fruit, and you perish quickly from the excellent land, which the Lord will give you.

Deuteronomy 28:18,38-40,42 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, the herds of thy oxen, and the flocks of thy sheep. . . .

Job 31:40 Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley.

Psalm 107:34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

Haggai 1:9-11 You have looked for more, and behold it became less, and you brought it home, and I blowed it away: why, saith the Lord of hosts? because my house is desolate, and you make haste every man to his own house. . . .

Haggai 2:16 When you went to a heap of twenty bushels, and they became ten: and you went into the press, to press out fifty vessels, and they became twenty.

1 Corinthians 3:6 I have planted, Apollo watered: but God gave the increase.

Context
Punishments for Disobedience
19And I will break the pride of your stubbornness: and I will make to you the heaven above as iron, and the earth as brass. 20Your labour shall be spent in vain: the ground shall not bring forth her increase: nor the trees yield their fruit.21If you walk contrary to me, and will not hearken to me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you for your sins.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:22
A fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn even to the lowest hell: and shall devour the earth with her increase, and shall burn the foundations of the mountains.

Psalm 127:1
A gradual canticle of Solomon. Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. Unless the Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain that keepeth it.

Isaiah 17:10
Because thou hast forgotten God thy saviour, and hast not remembered thy strong helper: therefore shalt thou plant good plants, and shalt sow strange seed.

Isaiah 17:11
In the day of thy planting shall be the wild grape, and in the morning thy seed shall flourish: the harvest is taken away in the day of inheritance, and shall grieve thee much.

Isaiah 49:4
And I said: I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength without cause and in vain: therefore my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.

Jeremiah 12:13
They have sown wheat, and reaped thorns: they have received an inheritance, and it shall not profit them: you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce wrath of the Lord.

Leviticus 26:19
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