Leviticus 26:20

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

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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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard 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 fruits.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    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 fruits.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    and your strength{H3581} shall be spent{H8552} in vain;{H7385} for your land{H776} shall not yield{H5414} its increase,{H2981} neither shall the trees{H6086} of the land{H776} yield{H5414} their fruit.{H6529}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And your strength{H3581} shall be spent{H8552}{(H8804)} in vain{H7385}: for your land{H776} shall not yield{H5414}{(H8799)} her increase{H2981}, neither shall the trees{H6086} of the land{H776} yield{H5414}{(H8799)} their fruits{H6529}.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    And so youre laboure shalbe spent in vayne. For youre londe shall not geue hir encrease, nether the trees of the londe shall geue their frutes.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    and youre trauaile and labor shal be but lost, so that youre londe shall not geue hir increase, and the trees in the londe shal not brynge forth their frute.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And your strength shalbe spent in vaine: neither shall your lande giue her increase, neither shall the trees of the land giue their fruite.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And your labour shalbe spent in vayne: for your lande shall not geue her increase, neither shall the trees of the lande geue their fruites.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    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.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • 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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    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.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    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.

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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 26:19
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    19 I will break your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze.

  • Lev 26:4-5
    2 verses
    78%

    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.

    5 Your threshing will continue until grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing, and you will eat your bread to the full and live securely in your land.

  • Deut 28:38-42
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    77%

    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.

    41 You will have sons and daughters, but they will not remain with you, because they will go into captivity.

    42 Swarms of insects will take possession of all your trees and the produce of your land.

  • Lev 26:16-17
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    76%

    16 I, in turn, will do this to you: I will bring sudden terror upon you, wasting diseases and fever that destroy your eyes and drain your strength. You will plant your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

    17 I will set my face against you so that you will be defeated by your enemies; those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even when no one is chasing you.

  • Hag 1:10
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    10 Therefore, because of you, the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its crops.

  • Lev 26:31-33
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    76%

    31 I will lay your cities in ruins, make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will no longer smell the pleasing aroma of your offerings.

    32 I will bring the land to desolation so that even your enemies who live there will be appalled by it.

    33 I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you. Your land will be desolate and your cities will lie in ruins.

  • Isa 1:29-30
    2 verses
    76%

    29 You will be ashamed because of the terebinths that you desired, and you will blush because of the gardens you have chosen.

    30 For you will be like a terebinth whose leaves wither, and like a garden without water.

  • Ezek 36:30
    76%

    30 I will increase the fruit of the trees and the crops of the field so that you will no longer endure the reproach of famine among the nations.

  • Lev 26:21
    76%

    21 If you continue to walk contrary to me and are unwilling to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over as your sins deserve.

  • Hab 3:17
    76%

    17 Though the fig tree does not blossom and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and there are no cattle in the stalls,

  • Mic 6:14-15
    2 verses
    75%

    14 You will eat but not be satisfied, and your emptiness will remain within you. You will store up but not save, and what you do save, I will give over to the sword.

    15 You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not use their oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.

  • Deut 11:17
    75%

    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.

  • Isa 5:6
    74%

    6 I will make it a wasteland; it will neither be pruned nor hoed, and briers and thorns will grow there. I will also command the clouds not to rain on it.

  • Deut 28:33
    74%

    33 A people you don’t know will eat the fruit of your land and the result of your labor. You will be oppressed and crushed continually.

  • Lev 25:20
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    20 If you say, 'What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow or gather our crops?'

  • Lev 26:37-39
    3 verses
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    37 They will stumble over one another as if fleeing from the sword, though no one pursues them. You will not be able to stand before your enemies.

    38 You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.

    39 Those of you who remain will waste away in their iniquity in the lands of your enemies; and also because of the iniquities of their ancestors, they will waste away with them.

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    74%

    51 They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine, or fresh oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have wiped you out.

  • Mic 7:13
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    13 The land will become desolate because of its inhabitants, due to the fruit of their deeds.

  • Deut 28:18
    73%

    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.

  • Jer 12:13
    73%

    13 They have sown wheat but reaped thorns; they have exhausted themselves to no profit. Be ashamed of your harvests because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

  • Jer 5:17
    73%

    17 They will consume your harvest and your bread, devour your sons and daughters, eat your flocks and herds, and consume your vines and fig trees. With the sword, they will destroy your fortified cities in which you trust.

  • Deut 28:20
    73%

    20 The LORD will send curses, confusion, and rebuke in everything you undertake until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil of your deeds, by which you have forsaken Me.

  • Isa 17:9
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    9 In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places of the wooded heights and hilltops that were abandoned because of the Israelites, and there will be desolation.

  • Ps 107:34
    73%

    34 and a fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the wickedness of those who dwell there.

  • Mal 3:11
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    11 I will rebuke the devourer for your sake, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your ground. Your vine in the field will not fail to bear fruit, says the Lord of Hosts.

  • Deut 28:24
    72%

    24 The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will come down upon you from the sky until you are destroyed.

  • Joel 1:10-12
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    72%

    10 The fields are devastated, and the ground mourns, because the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the olive oil fails.

    11 Be ashamed, you farmers; wail, you vinekeepers, for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.

    12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree withers; the pomegranate, the palm, and the apple tree—all the trees of the field are dried up. Indeed, joy has withered away from the people.

  • Isa 17:11
    72%

    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.

  • Joel 1:17
    72%

    17 The seeds shrivel beneath their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the granaries are broken down, for the grain has dried up.

  • Jer 8:13
    72%

    13 I will take away their harvest, declares the LORD. There will be no grapes on the vine, no figs on the tree, and even the leaves will wither. What I have given them will be taken from them.

  • Zeph 1:13
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    13 Their wealth will become plunder, and their houses a desolation. They will build houses but not live in them, and they will plant vineyards but not drink their wine.

  • Hos 11:6
    72%

    6 A sword will whirl through their cities; it will destroy their gates and consume them because of their plans.

  • Jer 44:22
    72%

    22 Because the LORD could no longer endure the wickedness of your actions and the detestable things you committed, your land became a ruin, a desolation, and a curse, without inhabitants, as it is today.

  • Ezek 34:27
    72%

    27 The trees of the field will yield their fruit, and the land will produce its crops. They will live securely on their land and know that I am the LORD when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the hands of those who enslaved them.

  • Amos 4:9
    72%

    9 I struck you with blight and mildew; the locust devoured your many gardens, vineyards, fig trees, and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,' declares the LORD.

  • Ezek 17:9
    71%

    9 Say, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: Will it thrive? Will it not be uprooted and its fruit stripped so that it withers? All its new growth will wither. It will not take a great effort or many people to pull it out by its roots.