Leviticus 26:20

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

Your strength shall be spent to no purpose: your land shall not yield its produce, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.

Cross References

Genesis 4:12

When you till the ground, it will no longer yield to you its strength; you will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”

1 Kings 18:2

So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria.

Job 31:40

let thorns grow instead of wheat, and foul weeds instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.

Psalm 107:34

a fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.

Psalm 127:1

Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord guards the city, the guard keeps watch in vain.

Isaiah 17:10

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge; therefore, though you plant pleasant plants and set out slips of an alien god,

Isaiah 17:11

though you make them grow on the day that you plant them, and make them blossom in the morning that you sow; yet the harvest will flee away in a day of grief and incurable pain.

Isaiah 49:4

But I said, “I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my cause is with the Lord, and my reward with my God.”

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns, they have tired themselves out but profit nothing. They shall be ashamed of their harvests because of the fierce anger of the Lord.

Hosea 2:11

I will put an end to all her mirth, her festivals, her new moons, her sabbaths, and all her appointed festivals.

Leviticus 26:4

I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

Habakkuk 2:13

Is it not from the Lord of hosts that peoples labor only to feed the flames, and nations weary themselves for nothing?

Haggai 2:16

how did you fare? When one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten; when one came to the winevat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty.

1 Corinthians 3:6

I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.

Galatians 4:11

I am afraid that my work for you may have been wasted.

Deuteronomy 11:17

for then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you and he will shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain and the land will yield no fruit; then you will perish quickly off the good land that the Lord is giving you.

Deuteronomy 28:18

Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle and the issue of your flock.

Deuteronomy 28:42

All your trees and the fruit of your ground the cicada shall take over.

Deuteronomy 32:22

For a fire is kindled by my anger, and burns to the depths of Sheol; it devours the earth and its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.