Leviticus 26:20 Cross References

Leviticus 26:20

20: All your work will be for nothing, for your land will yield no crops, and your trees will bear no fruit.

I replied, "But my work all seems so useless! I have spent my strength for nothing and to no purpose at all. Yet I leave it all in the LORD's hand; I will trust God for my reward."

Unless the LORD builds a house, the work of the builders is useless. Unless the LORD protects a city, guarding it with sentries will do no good.

If you do, the LORD's anger will burn against you. He will shut up the sky and hold back the rain, and your harvests will fail. Then you will quickly die in that good land the LORD is now giving you.

I will send the seasonal rains. The land will then yield its crops, and the trees will produce their fruit.

When you hoped for a twenty-bushel crop, you harvested only ten. When you expected to draw fifty gallons from the winepress, you found only twenty.

"You will plant much but harvest little, for locusts will eat your crops.
You will plant vineyards and care for them, but you will not drink the wine or eat the grapes, for worms will destroy the vines.
You will grow olive trees throughout your land, but you will never use the olive oil, for the trees will drop the fruit before it is ripe.

and they may grow so well that they blossom on the very morning you plant them, but you will never pick any grapes from them. Your only harvest will be a load of grief and incurable pain.

He turns the fruitful land into salty wastelands, because of the wickedness of those who live there.

Has not the LORD Almighty promised that the wealth of nations will turn to ashes? They work so hard, but all in vain!

You will be cursed with few children and barren fields. You will be cursed with infertile herds and flocks.

My job was to plant the seed in your hearts, and Apollos watered it, but it was God, not we, who made it grow.

You hoped for rich harvests, but they were poor. And when you brought your harvest home, I blew it away. Why? Because my house lies in ruins, says the LORD Almighty, while you are all busy building your own fine houses.
That is why the heavens have withheld the dew and the earth has withheld its crops.
I have called for a drought on your fields and hills--a drought to wither the grain and grapes and olives and all your other crops, a drought to starve both you and your cattle and to ruin everything you have worked so hard to get."

then let thistles grow on that land instead of wheat and weeds instead of barley." Job's words are ended.

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