Leviticus - 26:20



20 and your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won't yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

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Explanation and meaning of Leviticus 26:20.

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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.
Your labour shall be spent in vain, the ground shall not bring forth her increase, nor the trees yield their fruit.
and your strength shall be spent in vain, and your land shall not yield its produce; and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.
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.
And your strength will be used up without profit; for your land will not give her increase and the trees of the field will not give their fruit.
Your labor will be consumed to no purpose; the land will not bring forth seedlings, nor will the trees provide their fruit.
Et consumetur frustra fortitudo vestra, neque dabit terra vestra fructum suum, et arbores regionis non dabnut fructum suum.

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Historical Commentaries

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And your strength shall be spent in vain,.... In endeavouring to till the ground, to plough, or sow, or to dig about the vines or olives, and prune them:
for your land shall not yield its increase; produce corn, and bring forth grass, the one for the use of men, the other for the use of the cattle, and therefore both must starve:
neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits; such as vines, olives, figs, pomegranates, &c. which were very plentiful in the land of Judea, and on which they much lived, and on which their more comfortable subsistence at least depended, see Habakkuk 3:17; all this is the reverse of Leviticus 26:4.

In vain - in plowing, and sowing, and tilling the ground.

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