If you work the ground, it will never again give you its yield. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.’
Leviticus 26:20 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised and your strength will be used up for nothing. Your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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. Common English Bible so that your strength will be spent for no reason: your land will not produce its yield, and the trees of the land won’t produce their fruit. Catholic Public Domain Version Your labor will be consumed to no purpose; the land will not bring forth seedlings, nor will the trees provide their fruit. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Your labour shall be spent in vain: the ground shall not bring forth her increase: nor the trees yield their fruit. |
If you work the ground, it will never again give you its yield. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.’
So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria.
then let thorns grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley. The words of Job are concluded.
For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and you have failed to remember the rock of your strength; therefore you will plant beautiful plants and set out cuttings from exotic vines.
On the day that you plant, you will help them to grow, and in the morning you will help your seed to sprout, but the harvest will vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain.
But I myself said: I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and futility; yet my vindication is with the Lord, and my reward is with my God.
They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves but have no profit. Be put to shame by your harvests because of the Lord’s burning anger.
I will put an end to all her celebrations: her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths – all her festivals.
I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
Is it not from the Lord of Armies that the peoples labour only to fuel the fire and countries exhaust themselves for nothing?
what state were you in? When someone came to a grain heap of twenty measures, it only amounted to ten; when one came to the winepress to dip fifty measures from the vat, it only amounted to twenty.
I am fearful for you, that perhaps my labour for you has been wasted.
Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you. He will shut the sky, and there will be no rain; the land will not yield its produce, and you will perish quickly from the good land the Lord is giving you.
Your offspring will be cursed, and your land’s produce, the young of your herds, and the newborn of your flocks.
Buzzing insects will take possession of all your trees and your land’s produce.
For fire has been kindled because of my anger and burns to the depths of Sheol; it devours the land and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.