Verse 20

Your strength will be spent in vain, because your land will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 127:1 : 1 Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchmen stay awake in vain.
  • Isa 49:4 : 4 But I said, 'I have worked in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing and futility. Yet surely my vindication is with the Lord, and my reward is with my God.'
  • Lev 26:4 : 4 then I will provide your rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
  • Deut 11:17 : 17 Then the LORD’s anger will burn against you, and He will shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain, and the land will yield no produce. Then you will soon perish from the good land the LORD is giving you.
  • Deut 28:18 : 18 Cursed will be the fruit of your womb, the produce of your land, the offspring of your cattle, and the increase of your flocks.
  • Deut 28:38-40 : 38 You will sow much seed in the field but gather little, because locusts will consume it. 39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink their wine or gather their grapes, for worms will eat them. 40 You will have olive trees throughout your territory, but you will not anoint yourself with oil, for your olives will drop off prematurely.
  • Deut 28:42 : 42 Swarms of insects will take possession of all your trees and the produce of your land.
  • Job 31:40 : 40 then let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
  • Ps 107:34 : 34 and a fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the wickedness of those who dwell there.
  • Hab 2:13 : 13 Is it not from the LORD of Hosts that peoples labor for fire and nations grow weary for nothing?
  • Hag 1:9-9 : 9 You expected much, but it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew it away. Why?” declares the LORD of Hosts. “Because My house remains in ruins, while each of you is busy with your own house. 10 Therefore, because of you, the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its crops. 11 I called for a drought on the fields and the mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the olive oil, and everything the ground produces, on people and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.
  • Hag 2:16 : 16 from that time, when one came to a grain heap of twenty measures, only ten were there; when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, only twenty were there.
  • 1 Cor 3:6 : 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.
  • Gal 4:11 : 11 I fear for you, that perhaps my labor for you has been in vain.
  • Isa 17:11 : 11 Though on the day you plant them you make them grow, and in the morning you make your seed blossom, yet the harvest will be a heap on the day of grief and incurable pain.