Leviticus 26:20
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New International Version (©2011)
Your strength will be spent in vain, because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of your land yield their fruit.

New Living Translation (©2007)
All your work will be for nothing, for your land will yield no crops, and your trees will bear no fruit.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
'Your strength will be spent uselessly, for your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
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."

International Standard Version (©2012)
Your strength will be spent in vain, because your land won't yield its produce and the trees of the land won't yield their fruit.

NET Bible (©2006)
Your strength will be used up in vain, your land will not give its yield, and the trees of the land will not produce their fruit.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
You will work hard for nothing because your land will produce no crops and the trees will produce no fruit.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
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 fruits.

American King James Version
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.

American Standard Version
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Your labour shall be spent in vain, the ground shall not bring forth her increase, nor the trees yield their fruit.

Darby Bible Translation
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.

English Revised Version
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 fruit.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
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.

Young's Literal Translation
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.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

26:14-39 After God has set the blessing before them which would make them a happy people if they would be obedient, he here sets the curse before them, the evils which would make them miserable, if they were disobedient. Two things would bring ruin. 1. A contempt of God's commandments. They that reject the precept, will come at last to renounce the covenant. 2. A contempt of his corrections. If they will not learn obedience by the things they suffer, God himself would be against them; and this is the root and cause of all their misery. And also, The whole creation would be at war with them. All God's sore judgments would be sent against them. The threatenings here are very particular, they were prophecies, and He that foresaw all their rebellions, knew they would prove so. TEMPORAL judgments are threatened. Those who will not be parted from their sins by the commands of God, shall be parted from them by judgments. Those wedded to their lusts, will have enough of them. SPIRITUAL judgments are threatened, which should seize the mind. They should find no acceptance with God. A guilty conscience would be their continual terror. It is righteous with God to leave those to despair of pardon, who presume to sin; and it is owing to free grace, if we are not left to pine away in the iniquity we were born in, and have lived in.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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.

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Punishments for Disobedience
…19And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: 20And 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. 21And if you walk contrary to me, and will not listen to me; I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins. …

Deuteronomy 32:22 For a fire will be kindled by my wrath, one that burns down to the realm of the dead below. It will devour the earth and its harvests and set afire the foundations of the mountains.
Psalm 127:1 A song of ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the LORD builds the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain.
Isaiah 17:10 You have forgotten God your Savior; you have not remembered the Rock, your fortress. Therefore, though you set out the finest plants and plant imported vines,
Isaiah 17:11 though on the day you set them out, you make them grow, and on the morning when you plant them, you bring them to bud, yet the harvest will be as nothing in the day of disease and incurable pain.
Isaiah 49:4 But I said, "I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing at all. Yet what is due me is in the LORD's hand, and my reward is with my God."
Jeremiah 12:13 They will sow wheat but reap thorns; they will wear themselves out but gain nothing. They will bear the shame of their harvest because of the LORD's fierce anger."