Leviticus 26:20

New International Reader's Version

You will work with all your strength, but it will not do you any good. That is because your soil will not produce any crops. The trees of your land will not bear any fruit.

Cross References

Genesis 4:12

When you farm the land, it will not produce its crops for you anymore. You will be a restless person who wanders around on the earth.”

1 Kings 18:2

So Elijah went to speak to Ahab. There wasn’t enough food in Samaria. The people there were very hungry.

Job 31:40

Then let thorns grow instead of wheat. Let stinkweed come up instead of barley.” The words of Job end here.

Psalm 107:34

He turned land that produced crops into a salty land where nothing could grow. He did it because the people who lived there were evil.

Psalm 127:1

If the Lord doesn’t build a house, the work of the builders is useless. If the Lord doesn’t watch over a city, it’s useless for those on guard duty to stand watch over it.

Isaiah 17:10

Israel, you have forgotten God, who saves you. You have not remembered the Rock, who keeps you safe. You might set out the finest plants. You might plant vines from other lands.

Isaiah 17:11

The plants might start to grow on the day you set them out. The vines might begin to bud on the morning you plant them. But even if they do, there won’t be any harvest. Instead, there will be sickness and pain that won’t go away.

Isaiah 49:4

But I said, “In spite of my hard work, I feel as if I haven’t accomplished anything. I’ve used up all my strength. It seems as if everything I’ve done is worthless. But the Lord will give me what I should receive. My God will reward me.”

Jeremiah 12:13

People will plant wheat. But all they will gather is thorns. They will wear themselves out. But they will not have anything to show for it. I am very angry with them. So they will be ashamed of the crop they gather.”

Hosea 2:11

I will put a stop to the special times she celebrates. I’ll bring an end to the feasts she celebrates each year. I’ll stop her New Moon feasts and her Sabbath days. I’ll bring all her appointed feasts to an end.

Leviticus 26:4

Then I will send you rain at the right time. The ground will produce its crops. The trees will bear their fruit.

Habakkuk 2:13

I am the Lord who rules over all. Human effort is no better than wood that feeds a fire. So the nations wear themselves out for nothing.

Haggai 2:16

People went to get 20 measures of grain. But they could find only 10. They went to where the wine was stored to get 50 measures. But only 20 were there.

1 Corinthians 3:6

I planted the seed. Apollos watered it. But God has been making it grow.

Galatians 4:11

I am afraid for you. I am afraid that somehow I have wasted my efforts on you.

Deuteronomy 11:17

If you do, the Lord will be very angry with you. He’ll close up the sky. It won’t rain. The ground won’t produce its crops. Soon you will die. You won’t live to enjoy the good land the Lord is giving you.

Deuteronomy 28:18

Your children will be cursed. Your crops will be cursed. Your calves and lambs will be cursed.

Deuteronomy 28:42

Large numbers of locusts will eat up the leaves on all your trees. They will also eat up the crops on your land.

Deuteronomy 32:22

My anger will start a fire. It will burn all the way down to the kingdom of the dead. It will eat up the earth and its crops. It will set the base of the mountains on fire.