Leviticus 26:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Ps 127:1 : 1 <A Song of the going up. Of Solomon.> If the Lord is not helping the builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose: if the Lord does not keep the town, the watchman keeps his watch for nothing.
  • Isa 49:4 : 4 And I said, I have undergone weariness for nothing, I have given my strength for no purpose or profit: but still the Lord will take up my cause, and my God will give me my reward.
  • Lev 26:4 : 4 Then I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will give her increase and the trees of the field will give their fruit;
  • Deut 11:17 : 17 For if you do so, the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, and the heaven will be shut up so that there is no rain and the land will give no fruit; and in a very little time you will be cut off from the good land which the Lord is giving you.
  • Deut 28:18 : 18 A curse will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.
  • Deut 28:38-40 : 38 You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it. 39 You will put in vines and take care of them, but you will get no wine or grapes from them; for they will be food for worms. 40 Your land will be full of olive-trees, but there will be no oil for the comfort of your body; for your olive-tree will give no fruit.
  • Deut 28:42 : 42 All your trees and the fruit of your land will be the locust's.
  • Job 31:40 : 40 Then in place of grain let thorns come up, and in place of barley evil-smelling plants.
  • Ps 107:34 : 34 He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.
  • Hab 2:13 : 13 See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?
  • Hag 1:9-9 : 9 You were looking for much, and it came to little; and when you got it into your house, I took it away with a breath. Why? says the Lord of armies. Because of my house which is a waste, while every man takes care of the house which is his. 10 For this cause the heaven over you is kept from giving dew, and the earth from giving her fruit. 11 And by my order no rain came on the land or on the mountains or the grain or the wine or the oil or the produce of the earth or on men or cattle or on any work of man's hands.
  • Hag 2:16 : 16 How, when anyone came to a store of twenty measures, there were only ten: when anyone went to the wine-store to get fifty vessels full, there were only twenty.
  • 1 Cor 3:6 : 6 I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God gave the increase.
  • Gal 4:11 : 11 I am in fear of you, that I may have been working for you to no purpose.
  • Isa 17:11 : 11 In the day of your planting you were watching its growth, and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is wasted away in the day of grief and bitter sorrow.

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  • Lev 26:19
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    19 And the pride of your strength will be broken, and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as brass;

  • Lev 26:4-5
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    4 Then I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will give her increase and the trees of the field will give their fruit;

    5 And the crushing of the grain will overtake the cutting of the grapes, and the cutting of the grapes will overtake the planting of the seed, and there will be bread in full measure, and you will be living in your land safely.

  • Deut 28:38-42
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    38 You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it.

    39 You will put in vines and take care of them, but you will get no wine or grapes from them; for they will be food for worms.

    40 Your land will be full of olive-trees, but there will be no oil for the comfort of your body; for your olive-tree will give no fruit.

    41 You will have sons and daughters, but they will not be yours; for they will go away prisoners into a strange land.

    42 All your trees and the fruit of your land will be the locust's.

  • Lev 26:16-17
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    16 This will I do to you: I will put fear in your hearts, even wasting disease and burning pain, drying up the eyes and making the soul feeble, and you will get no profit from your seed, for your haters will take it for food.

    17 And my face will be turned from you, and you will be broken before those who are against you, and your haters will become your rulers, and you will go in flight when no man comes after you.

  • Hag 1:10
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    10 For this cause the heaven over you is kept from giving dew, and the earth from giving her fruit.

  • Lev 26:31-33
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    31 And I will make your towns waste and send destruction on your holy places; I will take no pleasure in the smell of your sweet perfumes;

    32 And I will make your land a waste, a wonder to your haters living in it.

    33 And I will send you out in all directions among the nations, and my sword will be uncovered against you, and your land will be without any living thing, and your towns will be made waste.

  • Isa 1:29-30
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    29 For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure.

    30 For you will be like a tree whose leaves have become dry, and like a garden without water.

  • Ezek 36:30
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    30 And I will make the tree give more fruit and the field fuller produce, and no longer will you be shamed among the nations for need of food.

  • Lev 26:21
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    21 And if you still go against me and will not give ear to me, I will put seven times more punishments on you because of your sins.

  • Hab 3:17
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    17 For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house:

  • Mic 6:14-15
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    14 You will have food, but not enough; your shame will be ever with you: you will get your goods moved, but you will not take them away safely; and what you do take away I will give to the sword.

    15 You will put in seed, but you will not get in the grain; you will be crushing olives, but your bodies will not be rubbed with the oil; and you will get in the grapes, but you will have no wine.

  • Deut 11:17
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    17 For if you do so, the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, and the heaven will be shut up so that there is no rain and the land will give no fruit; and in a very little time you will be cut off from the good land which the Lord is giving you.

  • Isa 5:6
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    6 And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.

  • Deut 28:33
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    33 The fruit of your land and all the work of your hands will be food for a nation which is strange to you and to your fathers; you will only be crushed down and kept under for ever:

  • Lev 25:20
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    20 And if you say, Where will our food come from in the seventh year, when we may not put in seed, or get in the increase

  • Lev 26:37-39
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    37 Falling on one another, as before the sword, when no one comes after them; you will give way before your haters.

    38 And death will overtake you among strange nations, and the land of your haters will be your destruction.

    39 And those of you who are still living will be wasting away in their sins in the land of your haters; in the sins of their fathers they will be wasting away.

  • Deut 28:51
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    51 He will take the fruit of your cattle and of your land till death puts an end to you: he will let you have nothing of your grain or wine or oil or any of the increase of your cattle or the young of your flock, till he has made your destruction complete.

  • Mic 7:13
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    13 But the land will become a waste because of its people, as the fruit of their works.

  • Deut 28:18
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    18 A curse will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.

  • Jer 12:13
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    13 Though good grain was planted, they have got in thorns: they have given themselves pain without profit: they will be shamed on account of their produce, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.

  • Jer 5:17
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    17 They will take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled towns in which you put your faith.

  • Deut 28:20
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    20 The Lord will send on you cursing and trouble and punishment in everything to which you put your hand, till sudden destruction overtakes you; because of your evil ways in which you have been false to me.

  • Isa 17:9
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    9 In that day your towns will be like the waste places of the Hivites and the Amorites which the children of Israel took for a heritage, and they will come to destruction.

  • Ps 107:34
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    34 He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.

  • Mal 3:11
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    11 And on your account I will keep back the locusts from wasting the fruits of your land; and the fruit of your vine will not be dropped on the field before its time, says the Lord of armies

  • Deut 28:24
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    24 The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust, sending it down on you from heaven till your destruction is complete.

  • Joel 1:10-12
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    10 The fields are wasted, the land has become dry; for the grain is wasted, the new wine is kept back, the oil is poor.

    11 The farmers are shamed, the workers in the vine-gardens give cries of grief, for the wheat and the barley; for the produce of the fields has come to destruction.

    12 The vine has become dry and the fig-tree is feeble; the pomegranate and the palm-tree and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field, are dry: because joy has gone from the sons of men.

  • Isa 17:11
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    11 In the day of your planting you were watching its growth, and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is wasted away in the day of grief and bitter sorrow.

  • Joel 1:17
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    17 The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.

  • Jer 8:13
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    13 I will put an end to them completely, says the Lord: there are no grapes on the vine and no figs on the fig-tree, and the leaf is dry.

  • Zeph 1:13
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    13 And their wealth will be violently taken away, and their houses will be made waste: they will go on building houses and never living in them, and planting vine-gardens but not drinking the wine from them.

  • Hos 11:6
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    6 And the sword will go through his towns, wasting his children and causing destruction because of their evil designs.

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    22 And the Lord was no longer able to put up with the evil of your doings and the disgusting things you did; and because of this your land has become a waste and a cause of wonder and a curse, with no one living in it, as at this day.

  • Ezek 34:27
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    27 And the tree of the field will give its fruit and the earth will give its increase, and they will be safe in their land; and they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I have had their yoke broken and have given them salvation from the hands of those who made them servants.

  • Amos 4:9
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    9 I have sent destruction on your fields by burning and disease: the increase of your gardens and your vine-gardens, your fig-trees and your olive-trees, has been food for worms: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

  • Ezek 17:9
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    9 Say, This is what the Lord has said: Will it do well? will he not have its roots pulled up and its branches cut off, so that all its young leaves may become dry and it may be pulled up by its roots?