Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Your strength will be spent in vain, because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of your land yield their fruit. New Living Translation All your work will be for nothing, for your land will yield no crops, and your trees will bear no fruit. English Standard Version And your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit. Berean Standard Bible and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit. King James Bible 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. New King James Version And your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit. New American Standard Bible Your strength will be consumed uselessly, for your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit. NASB 1995 ‘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. NASB 1977 ‘And your strength shall be spent uselessly, for your land shall not yield its produce and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit. Legacy Standard Bible And your power will be spent uselessly, for your land will not give forth its produce and the trees of the land will not give forth their fruit. Amplified 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. Christian Standard 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. Holman Christian Standard 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.” 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. Contemporary English Version All of your hard work will be for nothing--and there will be no harvest of grain or fruit. English Revised 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 fruit. GOD'S WORD® Translation You will work hard for nothing because your land will produce no crops and the trees will produce no fruit. 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. 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. Majority Standard Bible and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit. 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. Webster's Bible Translation 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 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. Literal Translations Literal Standard Versionand your strength has been consumed in vain, and your land does not give her produce, and the tree of the land does not give its fruit. Young's 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. Smith's Literal 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. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleYour labour shall be spent in vain, the ground shall not bring forth her increase, nor the trees yield their fruit. Catholic Public Domain Version Your labor will be consumed to no purpose; the land will not bring forth seedlings, nor will the trees provide their fruit. New American Bible so that your strength will be spent in vain; your land will bear no crops, and its trees no 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. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleAnd 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. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And your power shall be spent in futility and your land shall not give its harvests and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917And your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield her produce, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruit. Brenton Septuagint Translation And your strength shall be in vain; and your land shall not yield its seed, and the tree of your field shall not yield its fruit. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Punishments for Disobedience…19I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze, 20and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit. 21If you walk in hostility toward Me and refuse to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times, according to your sins.… Cross References Deuteronomy 28:23-24 The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron. / The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed. Haggai 1:6 You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.” Haggai 1:9-11 You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house. / Therefore, on account of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth has withheld its crops. / I have summoned a drought on the fields and on the mountains, on the grain, new wine, and oil, and on whatever the ground yields, on man and beast, and on all the labor of your hands.” Jeremiah 12:13 They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves to no avail. Bear the shame of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.” Micah 6:15 You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine. Isaiah 17:10-11 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines— / though on the day you plant you make them grow, and on that morning you help your seed sprout—yet the harvest will vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain. Isaiah 5:10 For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.” Amos 5:11 Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted. Psalm 127:1-2 A song of ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain; unless the LORD protects the city, its watchmen stand guard in vain. / In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat—for He gives sleep to His beloved. Job 31:39-40 if I have devoured its produce without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants, / then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job. Ezekiel 33:28-29 I will make the land a desolate waste, and the pride of her strength will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will become desolate, so that no one will pass through. / Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have made the land a desolate waste because of all the abominations they have committed.’ Romans 8:20-22 For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope / that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. / We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time. Galatians 6:7-8 Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return. / The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Hebrews 6:7-8 For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God. / But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned. James 5:17-18 Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. / Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth yielded its crops. Treasury of Scripture 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 Psalm 127:1 A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. Isaiah 49:4 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God. Habakkuk 2:13 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity? for your land Leviticus 26:4 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. Deuteronomy 11:17 And then the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you. Deuteronomy 28:18,38-40,42 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep… Jump to Previous Consumed Crops Field Fruit Fruits Increase Produce Profit Soil Spent Tree Trees Used Uselessly Vain Won't YieldJump to Next Consumed Crops Field Fruit Fruits Increase Produce Profit Soil Spent Tree Trees Used Uselessly Vain Won't YieldLeviticus 26 1. Of idolatry2. Reverence 3. A blessing to those who keep the commandments 14. A curse to those who break them 40. God promises to remember those who repent and your strength will be spent in vain. This phrase highlights the futility of human effort without divine blessing. In the context of Leviticus 26, God is warning the Israelites of the consequences of disobedience. The strength spent in vain can be seen as a reversal of the blessing promised in Deuteronomy 28:12, where God assures that the work of their hands will be blessed. Theologically, this reflects the principle that human labor, apart from God, is ultimately unproductive, echoing the sentiment found in Psalm 127:1, "Unless the LORD builds the house, the builders labor in vain." This futility is a direct result of breaking the covenant, emphasizing the importance of obedience to God's commands. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit. Persons / Places / Events 1. The IsraelitesThe primary audience of Leviticus, the Israelites were God's chosen people, receiving the Law through Moses. 2. The Promised Land The land of Canaan, promised to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, where the Israelites were to live and prosper under God's covenant. 3. Moses The prophet and leader who delivered God's laws and commandments to the Israelites, including the blessings and curses outlined in Leviticus 26. 4. God's Covenant The agreement between God and the Israelites, which included blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience. 5. Agricultural Imagery The use of land and produce as symbols of God's provision and the consequences of disobedience. Teaching Points The Consequences of DisobedienceDisobedience to God's commands leads to futility and unfruitfulness, both physically and spiritually. The Importance of Covenant Faithfulness God's covenant with His people requires faithfulness; breaking it results in loss and hardship. Spiritual Fruitfulness Just as the land was to yield produce, our lives should yield spiritual fruit through obedience to God. Dependence on God for Provision True provision and success come from God; without Him, our efforts are in vain. The Call to Repentance When facing the consequences of disobedience, God calls us to repentance and restoration.(20) And your strength shall be spent in vain.--That is, with the heaven over them as metal, their labour expended in ploughing, digging, and sowing will be perfectly useless. Your land shall not yield her increase, as no amount of human labour will make up for the want of rain. In Deuteronomy 11:17, where the same punishment is threatened, and the same phrase is used, the Authorised Version unnecessarily obliterates the identity of the words in the original by rendering them "the land yield not her fruit." Hebrew and your strengthכֹּחֲכֶ֑ם (kō·ḥă·ḵem) Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 3581: A small reptile (of unknown species) will be spent וְתַ֥ם (wə·ṯam) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 8552: To be complete or finished in vain. לָרִ֖יק (lā·rîq) Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 7385: Emptiness, a worthless thing, in vain For your land אַרְצְכֶם֙ (’ar·ṣə·ḵem) Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 776: Earth, land will not וְלֹֽא־ (wə·lō-) Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no yield תִתֵּ֤ן (ṯit·tên) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 5414: To give, put, set its אֶת־ (’eṯ-) Direct object marker Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case produce, יְבוּלָ֔הּ (yə·ḇū·lāh) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular Strong's 2981: Produce, a crop, wealth and the trees וְעֵ֣ץ (wə·‘êṣ) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 6086: Tree, trees, wood of the land הָאָ֔רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ) Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 776: Earth, land will not לֹ֥א (lō) Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no bear יִתֵּ֖ן (yit·tên) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 5414: To give, put, set their fruit. פִּרְיֽוֹ׃ (pir·yōw) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 6529: Fruit Links Leviticus 26:20 NIVLeviticus 26:20 NLT Leviticus 26:20 ESV Leviticus 26:20 NASB Leviticus 26:20 KJV Leviticus 26:20 BibleApps.com Leviticus 26:20 Biblia Paralela Leviticus 26:20 Chinese Bible Leviticus 26:20 French Bible Leviticus 26:20 Catholic Bible OT Law: Leviticus 26:20 And your strength will be spent (Le Lv Lev.) |
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