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For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/leviticus/26.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/leviticus/26.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />And your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/leviticus/26.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Your strength will be consumed uselessly, for your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/leviticus/26.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8216Your strength will be spent uselessly, for your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/leviticus/26.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />‘And your strength shall be spent uselessly, for your land shall not yield its produce and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/leviticus/26.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />And your power will be spent uselessly, for your land will not give forth its produce and the trees of the land will not give forth their fruit.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/leviticus/26.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/leviticus/26.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/leviticus/26.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />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.&#8221 <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/leviticus/26.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/leviticus/26.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />All of your hard work will be for nothing--and there will be no harvest of grain or fruit. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/leviticus/26.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/leviticus/26.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />You will work hard for nothing because your land will produce no crops and the trees will produce no fruit.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/leviticus/26.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />All your hard work will do you no good, because your land will not produce crops and the trees will not bear fruit. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/leviticus/26.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/leviticus/26.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/leviticus/26.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />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. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/leviticus/26.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/leviticus/26.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/leviticus/26.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />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. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/leviticus/26.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />and your strength has been consumed in vain, and your land does not give her produce, and the tree of the land does not give its fruit.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/leviticus/26.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> 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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/leviticus/26.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And your strength shall be exhausted to no purpose: and your land shall not give its produce, and the tree of the land shall not give its fruit.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/leviticus/26.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Your labour shall be spent in vain, the ground shall not bring forth her increase, nor the trees yield their fruit. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/leviticus/26.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Your labor will be consumed to no purpose; the land will not bring forth seedlings, nor will the trees provide their fruit.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/leviticus/26.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />so that your strength will be spent in vain; your land will bear no crops, and its trees no fruit.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/leviticus/26.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />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.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/leviticus/26.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/leviticus/26.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And your power shall be spent in futility and your land shall not give its harvests and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/leviticus/26.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />And your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield her produce, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/leviticus/26.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And your strength shall be in vain; and your land shall not yield its seed, and the tree of your field shall not yield its fruit.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/leviticus/26-20.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NWs_V1RyMFo?start=7263" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/leviticus/26.htm">Punishments for Disobedience</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">19</span>I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze, <span class="reftext">20</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/3581.htm" title="3581: kō·ḥă·ḵem (N-msc:: 2mp) -- Or kowach; from an unused root meaning to be firm; vigor, literally or figuratively; also a large lizard.">and your strength</a> <a href="/hebrew/8552.htm" title="8552: wə·ṯam (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-3ms) -- A primitive root; to complete, in a good or a bad sense, literal, or figurative, transitive or intransitive.">will be spent</a> <a href="/hebrew/7385.htm" title="7385: lā·rîq (Prep-l, Art:: N-ms) -- Emptiness, a worthless thing, in vain. From ruwq; emptiness; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain.">in vain.</a> <a href="/hebrew/776.htm" title="776: ’ar·ṣə·ḵem (N-fsc:: 2mp) -- Earth, land. From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth.">For your land</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: wə·lō- (Conj-w:: Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">will not</a> <a href="/hebrew/5414.htm" title="5414: ṯit·tên (V-Qal-Imperf-3fs) -- To give, put, set. A primitive root; to give, used with greatest latitude of application.">yield</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self.">its</a> <a href="/hebrew/2981.htm" title="2981: yə·ḇū·lāh (N-msc:: 3fs) -- Produce (of the soil). From yabal; produce, i.e. A crop or wealth.">produce,</a> <a href="/hebrew/6086.htm" title="6086: wə·‘êṣ (Conj-w:: N-msc) -- Tree, trees, wood. From atsah; a tree; hence, wood.">and the trees</a> <a href="/hebrew/776.htm" title="776: hā·’ā·reṣ (Art:: N-fs) -- Earth, land. From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth.">of the land</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: lō (Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">will not</a> <a href="/hebrew/5414.htm" title="5414: yit·tên (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms) -- To give, put, set. A primitive root; to give, used with greatest latitude of application.">bear</a> <a href="/hebrew/6529.htm" title="6529: pir·yōw (N-msc:: 3ms) -- Fruit. From parah; fruit.">their fruit.</a> </span><span class="reftext">21</span>If you walk in hostility toward Me and refuse to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times, according to your sins.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/28-23.htm">Deuteronomy 28:23-24</a></span><br />The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron. / The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/haggai/1-6.htm">Haggai 1:6</a></span><br />You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/haggai/1-9.htm">Haggai 1:9-11</a></span><br />You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house. / Therefore, on account of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth has withheld its crops. / I have summoned a drought on the fields and on the mountains, on the grain, new wine, and oil, and on whatever the ground yields, on man and beast, and on all the labor of your hands.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/12-13.htm">Jeremiah 12:13</a></span><br />They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves to no avail. Bear the shame of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/micah/6-15.htm">Micah 6:15</a></span><br />You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/17-10.htm">Isaiah 17:10-11</a></span><br />For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines— / though on the day you plant you make them grow, and on that morning you help your seed sprout—yet the harvest will vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/5-10.htm">Isaiah 5:10</a></span><br />For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/amos/5-11.htm">Amos 5:11</a></span><br />Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/127-1.htm">Psalm 127:1-2</a></span><br />A song of ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain; unless the LORD protects the city, its watchmen stand guard in vain. / In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat—for He gives sleep to His beloved.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/job/31-39.htm">Job 31:39-40</a></span><br />if I have devoured its produce without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants, / then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/33-28.htm">Ezekiel 33:28-29</a></span><br />I will make the land a desolate waste, and the pride of her strength will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will become desolate, so that no one will pass through. / Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have made the land a desolate waste because of all the abominations they have committed.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/8-20.htm">Romans 8:20-22</a></span><br />For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope / that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. / We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/galatians/6-7.htm">Galatians 6:7-8</a></span><br />Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return. / The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/6-7.htm">Hebrews 6:7-8</a></span><br />For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God. / But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/james/5-17.htm">James 5:17-18</a></span><br />Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. / Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth yielded its crops.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">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.</p><p class="hdg">your strength</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/127-1.htm">Psalm 127:1</a></b></br> A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh <i>but</i> in vain.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/49-4.htm">Isaiah 49:4</a></b></br> Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: <i>yet</i> surely my judgment <i>is</i> with the LORD, and my work with my God.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/habakkuk/2-13.htm">Habakkuk 2:13</a></b></br> Behold, <i>is it</i> not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?</p><p class="hdg">for your land</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/leviticus/26-4.htm">Leviticus 26:4</a></b></br> Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/11-17.htm">Deuteronomy 11:17</a></b></br> And <i>then</i> the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and <i>lest</i> ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/28-18.htm">Deuteronomy 28:18,38-40,42</a></b></br> Cursed <i>shall be</i> the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep… </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/leviticus/10-2.htm">Consumed</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-4.htm">Crops</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-4.htm">Field</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-4.htm">Fruit</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-22.htm">Fruits</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-9.htm">Increase</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-4.htm">Produce</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-37.htm">Profit</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-19.htm">Soil</a> <a href="/genesis/47-18.htm">Spent</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-4.htm">Tree</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-4.htm">Trees</a> <a href="/leviticus/22-30.htm">Used</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-16.htm">Uselessly</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-16.htm">Vain</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-11.htm">Won't</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-4.htm">Yield</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/leviticus/26-38.htm">Consumed</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/22-9.htm">Crops</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-22.htm">Field</a> <a href="/leviticus/27-30.htm">Fruit</a> <a href="/numbers/18-12.htm">Fruits</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-21.htm">Increase</a> <a href="/numbers/13-20.htm">Produce</a> <a href="/judges/5-19.htm">Profit</a> <a href="/leviticus/27-30.htm">Soil</a> <a href="/numbers/11-32.htm">Spent</a> <a href="/leviticus/27-30.htm">Tree</a> <a href="/leviticus/27-30.htm">Trees</a> <a href="/numbers/3-31.htm">Used</a> <a href="/malachi/1-10.htm">Uselessly</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/5-11.htm">Vain</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-21.htm">Won't</a> <a href="/numbers/20-8.htm">Yield</a><div class="vheading2">Leviticus 26</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/leviticus/26-1.htm">Of idolatry</a></span><br><span class="reftext">2. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/leviticus/26-2.htm">Reverence</a></span><br><span class="reftext">3. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/leviticus/26-3.htm">A blessing to those who keep the commandments</a></span><br><span class="reftext">14. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/leviticus/26-14.htm">A curse to those who break them</a></span><br><span class="reftext">40. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/leviticus/26-40.htm">God promises to remember those who repent</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading"><a href="/study/leviticus/26.htm">Berean Study Bible</a></div><b>Your labor will be wasted</b><br />The phrase "Your labor will be wasted" speaks to the futility of human effort when it is not aligned with God's will. The Hebrew root for "labor" (עֲבוֹדָה, avodah) often refers to work or service, emphasizing the toil and effort put into daily life. In the context of Leviticus, this futility is a direct consequence of disobedience to God's commandments. Historically, this reflects the covenant relationship between God and Israel, where blessings and curses were contingent upon obedience. Theologically, it serves as a reminder that without God's blessing, human efforts can become fruitless, echoing the curse of the ground in <a href="/genesis/3-17.htm">Genesis 3:17-19</a>.<p><b>and your land will not yield its produce</b><br />The phrase "and your land will not yield its produce" underscores the dependence of agricultural success on divine favor. The Hebrew word for "yield" (תִּתֵּן, titen) implies giving or producing, and "produce" (יְבוּל, yebul) refers to the yield of the land. In ancient Israel, agriculture was central to survival and prosperity, and the land's fertility was seen as a direct blessing from God. This warning highlights the covenantal promise that obedience would lead to abundance, while disobedience would result in barrenness. It serves as a spiritual metaphor for the believer's life, where spiritual fruitfulness is contingent upon abiding in Christ (<a href="/john/15-4.htm">John 15:4-5</a>).<p><b>nor will the trees of the land bear their fruit</b><br />The phrase "nor will the trees of the land bear their fruit" further emphasizes the theme of barrenness as a consequence of disobedience. The Hebrew word for "bear" (תִּשָּׂא, tissa) means to lift or carry, and "fruit" (פְּרִי, peri) symbolizes the results or outcomes of one's labor. Trees, often symbolic of life and prosperity in Scripture, failing to bear fruit signifies a breakdown in the natural order due to sin. This imagery is consistent with the broader biblical narrative where fruitfulness is a sign of God's blessing (<a href="/psalms/1-3.htm">Psalm 1:3</a>) and unfruitfulness a sign of judgment (<a href="/matthew/21-19.htm">Matthew 21:19</a>). For the believer, it serves as a call to remain faithful and obedient to God, trusting that true fruitfulness comes from Him alone.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/leviticus/26.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(20) <span class= "bld">And your strength shall be spent in vain.</span>--That is, with the heaven over them as metal, their labour expended in ploughing, digging, and sowing will be perfectly useless.<p><span class= "bld">Your land shall not yield her increase,</span> as no amount of human labour will make up for the want of rain. In <a href="/deuteronomy/11-17.htm" title="And then the LORD's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest you perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD gives you.">Deuteronomy 11:17</a>, where the same punishment is threatened, and the same phrase is used, the Authorised Version unnecessarily obliterates the identity of the words in the original by rendering them "the land yield not <span class= "ital">her fruit."</span><p><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/leviticus/26-20.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">and your strength</span><br /><span class="heb">כֹּחֲכֶ֑ם</span> <span class="translit">(kō·ḥă·ḵem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3581.htm">Strong's 3581: </a> </span><span class="str2">A small reptile (of unknown species)</span><br /><br /><span class="word">will be spent</span><br /><span class="heb">וְתַ֥ם</span> <span class="translit">(wə·ṯam)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8552.htm">Strong's 8552: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be complete or finished</span><br /><br /><span class="word">in vain.</span><br /><span class="heb">לָרִ֖יק</span> <span class="translit">(lā·rîq)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7385.htm">Strong's 7385: </a> </span><span class="str2">Emptiness, a worthless thing, in vain</span><br /><br /><span class="word">For your land</span><br /><span class="heb">אַרְצְכֶם֙</span> <span class="translit">(’ar·ṣə·ḵem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_776.htm">Strong's 776: </a> </span><span class="str2">Earth, land</span><br /><br /><span class="word">will not</span><br /><span class="heb">וְלֹֽא־</span> <span class="translit">(wə·lō-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> </span><span class="str2">Not, no</span><br /><br /><span class="word">yield</span><br /><span class="heb">תִתֵּ֤ן</span> <span class="translit">(ṯit·tên)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5414.htm">Strong's 5414: </a> </span><span class="str2">To give, put, set</span><br /><br /><span class="word">its</span><br /><span class="heb">אֶת־</span> <span class="translit">(’eṯ-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Direct object marker<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_853.htm">Strong's 853: </a> </span><span class="str2">Untranslatable mark of the accusative case</span><br /><br /><span class="word">produce,</span><br /><span class="heb">יְבוּלָ֔הּ</span> <span class="translit">(yə·ḇū·lāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2981.htm">Strong's 2981: </a> </span><span class="str2">Produce, a crop, wealth</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and the trees</span><br /><span class="heb">וְעֵ֣ץ</span> <span class="translit">(wə·‘êṣ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6086.htm">Strong's 6086: </a> </span><span class="str2">Tree, trees, wood</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of the land</span><br /><span class="heb">הָאָ֔רֶץ</span> <span class="translit">(hā·’ā·reṣ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_776.htm">Strong's 776: </a> </span><span class="str2">Earth, land</span><br /><br /><span class="word">will not</span><br /><span class="heb">לֹ֥א</span> <span class="translit">(lō)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb - Negative particle<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> </span><span class="str2">Not, no</span><br /><br /><span class="word">bear</span><br /><span class="heb">יִתֵּ֖ן</span> <span class="translit">(yit·tên)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5414.htm">Strong's 5414: </a> </span><span class="str2">To give, put, set</span><br /><br /><span class="word">their fruit.</span><br /><span class="heb">פִּרְיֽוֹ׃</span> <span class="translit">(pir·yōw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6529.htm">Strong's 6529: </a> </span><span class="str2">Fruit</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/leviticus/26-20.htm">Leviticus 26:20 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/leviticus/26-20.htm">Leviticus 26:20 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/leviticus/26-20.htm">Leviticus 26:20 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/leviticus/26-20.htm">Leviticus 26:20 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/leviticus/26-20.htm">Leviticus 26:20 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/leviticus/26-20.htm">Leviticus 26:20 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/leviticus/26-20.htm">Leviticus 26:20 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/leviticus/26-20.htm">Leviticus 26:20 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/leviticus/26-20.htm">Leviticus 26:20 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/leviticus/26-20.htm">Leviticus 26:20 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/leviticus/26-20.htm">OT Law: Leviticus 26:20 And your strength will be spent (Le Lv Lev.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/leviticus/26-19.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Leviticus 26:19"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Leviticus 26:19" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/leviticus/26-21.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Leviticus 26:21"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Leviticus 26:21" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>