Leviticus 26:20 Parallel Translations

You will work hard for nothing because your land will produce no crops and the trees will produce no fruit.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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.

ASV:

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.

BBE:

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.

DBY:

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.

ERV:

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.

JPS:

And 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.

WBS:

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.

WEB:

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.

YLT:

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.

Leviticus 26:20 Cross References

XREF:

Psalm 127:1 A Song of Ascents, of Solomon. Unless the LORD builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the LORD guards the city, The watchman keeps awake in vain.

Isaiah 17:10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation And have not remembered the rock of your refuge. Therefore you plant delightful plants And set them with vine slips of a strange god.

Isaiah 17:11 In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in, And in the morning you bring your seed to blossom; But the harvest will be a heap In a day of sickliness and incurable pain.

Isaiah 49:4 But I said, "I have toiled in vain, I have spent My strength for nothing and vanity; Yet surely the justice due to Me is with the LORD, And My reward with My God."

Jeremiah 12:13 "They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns, They have strained themselves to no profit. But be ashamed of your harvest Because of the fierce anger of the LORD." (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

26:20 In vain - in plowing, and sowing, and tilling the ground.

MHC:

26:14-39 After God has set the blessing before them which would make them a happy people if they would be obedient, he here sets the curse before them, the evils which would make them miserable, if they were disobedient. Two things would bring ruin. 1. A contempt of God's commandments. They that reject the precept, will come at last to renounce the covenant. 2. A contempt of his corrections. If they will not learn obedience by the things they suffer, God himself would be against them; and this is the root and cause of all their misery. And also, The whole creation would be at war with them. All God's sore judgments would be sent against them. The threatenings here are very particular, they were prophecies, and He that foresaw all their rebellions, knew they would prove so. TEMPORAL judgments are threatened. Those who will not be parted from their sins by the commands of God, shall be parted from them by judgments. Those wedded to their lusts, will have enough of them. SPIRITUAL judgments are threatened, which should seize the mind. They should find no acceptance with God. A guilty conscience would be their continual terror. It is righteous with God to leave those to despair of pardon, who presume to sin; and it is owing to free grace, if we are not left to pine away in the iniquity we were born in, and have lived in.

CONC:

Consumed Crops Field Fruit Fruits Increase Produce Profit Soil Spent Strength Tree Trees Uselessly Vain Won't Yield

Consumed Crops Field Fruit Fruits Increase Produce Profit Soil Spent Tree Trees Used Uselessly Vain Won't Yield

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