In the past, {you planted, and your plants grew well. But now} you will plant, and the ground will not help your plants grow. You will not have a home on the earth. You will wander from place to place.”
Leviticus 26:20 - Easy To Read Version You will work hard, but it will not help. Your land will not give any crops, and your trees will not grow 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. |
In the past, {you planted, and your plants grew well. But now} you will plant, and the ground will not help your plants grow. You will not have a home on the earth. You will wander from place to place.”
If I ever did any of those bad things,\par then let thorns and weeds\par grow in my fields\par instead of wheat and barley {\cf2\super [68]} !”\par
God changed the fertile land\par and it became worthless salty land.\par Why? Because of the bad people\par who were living in that place.\par
If it is not the Lord that builds a house,\par the builder is wasting his time.\par If it is not the Lord that watches over a city,\par the guards are wasting their time.\par
This will happen because you have forgotten the God who saves you. You have not remembered that God is your place of safety.
You will plant your grapevines one day and try to make them grow. The next day the plants will begin to grow. But at harvest time, you will go to gather the fruit from the plants, and you will see that everything is dead. A sickness will kill all the plants.
I said,\par “I worked hard for nothing.\par I wore myself out,\par but I did nothing useful.\par I used all my power,\par but I did not really do anything.\par So, the Lord must decide\par what to do with me.\par God must decide my reward.\par
The people will plant wheat,\par but they will harvest only thorns.\par They will work hard until they are very tired,\par but they will get nothing for all their work.\par They will be ashamed of their crop.\par The Lord’s anger caused those things.”\par
“Then the people of Judah and the people of Israel will be gathered together. They will choose one ruler for themselves. And their nation will be too large for the land! {\cf2\super [9]} Jezreel’s day will be truly great.”
If you do those things, then I will give you rains at the time they should come. The land will grow crops and the trees of the field will grow their fruit.
The Lord All-Powerful has decided that a fire will destroy everything that those people worked to build. All their work will be for nothing.
People wanted 20 measures of grain, but there were only 10 measures of grain in the pile. People wanted to get 50 jars of wine from the wine vat, but there were only 20!
I planted the seed (teaching) and Apollos watered it. But God is the One who made the seed grow.
If you do that, then the Lord will become very angry at you. He will shut the skies, and there will be no rain. The land will not make a harvest. And you will soon die in the good land that the Lord is giving you.
The Lord will curse you, and you will not have many children. He will curse your land and you will not have good crops. He will curse your animals and they will not have many babies. He will curse all your calves and lambs.
My anger will burn like a fire, burning down to the deepest grave, [214] burning the earth and all it produces, burning deep down below the mountains!