Verse 20

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.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 127:1 : 1 A Song of the Ascents, by Solomon. If Jehovah doth not build the house, In vain have its builders laboured at it, If Jehovah doth not watch a city, In vain hath a watchman waked.
  • Isa 49:4 : 4 And I said, `For a vain thing I laboured, For emptiness and vanity my power I consumed, But my judgment `is' with Jehovah, And my wage with my God.
  • Lev 26:4 : 4 then I have given your rains in their season, and the land hath given her produce, and the tree of the field doth give its fruit;
  • Deut 11:17 : 17 and the anger of Jehovah hath burned against you, and He hath restrained the heavens, and there is no rain, and the ground doth not give her increase, and ye have perished hastily from off the good land which Jehovah is giving to you.
  • Deut 28:18 : 18 `Cursed `is' the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock.
  • Deut 28:38-40 : 38 `Much seed thou dost take out into the field, and little thou dost gather in, for the locust doth consume it; 39 vineyards thou dost plant, and hast laboured, and wine thou dost not drink nor gather, for the worm doth consume it; 40 olives are to thee in all thy border, and oil thou dost not pour out, for thine olive doth fall off.
  • Deut 28:42 : 42 all thy trees and the fruit of thy ground doth the locust possess;
  • Job 31:40 : 40 Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, And instead of barley a useless weed! The words of Job are finished.
  • Ps 107:34 : 34 A fruitful land becometh a barren place, For the wickedness of its inhabitants.
  • Hab 2:13 : 13 Lo, is it not from Jehovah of Hosts And peoples are fatigued for fire, And nations for vanity are weary?
  • Hag 1:9-9 : 9 Looking for much, and lo, little, And ye brought `it' home, and I blew on it, Wherefore? -- an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, Because of My house that is waste, And ye are running -- each to his house, 10 Therefore, over you refrained have the heavens from dew, And the land hath refrained its increase. 11 And I proclaim draught on the land, And on the mountains, and on the corn, And on the new wine, and on the oil, And on what the ground doth bring forth, And on man, and on beast, And on all labour of the hands.'
  • Hag 2:16 : 16 From that time `one' hath come to a heap of twenty, And it hath been ten, He hath come unto the wine-fat to draw out fifty purahs, And it hath been twenty.
  • 1 Cor 3:6 : 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth;
  • Gal 4:11 : 11 I am afraid of you, lest in vain I did labour toward you.
  • Isa 17:11 : 11 In the day thy plant thou causest to become great, And in the morning thy seed makest to flourish, A heap `is' the harvest in a day of overflowing, And of mortal pain.