Verse 20

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.

Referenced Verses

• Ps 127:1 : 1 Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.
• Isa 49:4 : 4 But I said, "I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely the justice [due] to me is with Yahweh, and my reward with my God."
• Lev 26:4 : 4 then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
• Deut 11:17 : 17 and the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you.
• Deut 28:18 : 18 The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock shall be cursed.
• Deut 28:38-40 : 38 You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in; for the locust shall consume it. 39 You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather [the grapes]; for the worm shall eat them. 40 You shall have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olive shall cast [its fruit].
• Deut 28:42 : 42 All your trees and the fruit of your ground shall the locust possess.
• Job 31:40 : 40 let briars 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, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
• Hab 2:13 : 13 Behold, isn't it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
• Hag 1:9-9 : 9 "You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?" says Yahweh of Armies, "Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house. 10 Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit. 11 I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground brings forth, on men, on livestock, and on all the labor of the hands."
• Hag 2:16 : 16 Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.
• 1 Cor 3:6 : 6 I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
• Gal 4:11 : 11 I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.
• Isa 17:11 : 11 In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.