Lev 26:20, Deu 28:38-40, Isa 62:8-9, 65:21-22, Jer 12:13, Joe 1:10-12 | ESV | STEP | 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 .

n[See ver. 21 above]

oSee Ps. 92:12-14

q[Lev. 26:16; Deut. 28:38; Mic. 6:15; Hag. 1:6]

r Isa. 55:2; Hab. 2:13

t ch. 4:8, 26; 25:37, 38; 30:24; 49:37; 51:45; Lam. 1:12; 4:11

uSee Hos. 4:3

ab Isa. 24:11; Jer. 48:33

Leviticus 26:20

20 And ^ayour strength shall be spent in vain, for ^byour land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.

Deuteronomy 28:38-40

38 ^cYou shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for ^dthe locust shall consume it. 39 ^eYou shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them. 40 You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you ^fshall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off.

Isaiah 62:8-9

8 The Lord has sworn ^gby his right hand
and by his mighty arm:
“I will not again give ^hyour grain
to be food for your enemies,
ⁱand foreigners shall not drink your wine
for which you have labored;
9 but ^jthose who garner it shall eat it
and praise the Lord,
and ^kthose who gather it shall drink it
in the courts of my sanctuary.” ^{▼▼Or in my holy courts}

Isaiah 65:21-22

21 ^mThey shall build houses and inhabit them;
they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
22 ⁿThey shall not build and another inhabit;
they shall not plant and another eat;
^ofor like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be,
and my chosen shall long enjoy ^{▼▼Hebrew shall wear out} the work of their hands.

Jeremiah 12:13

13 ^qThey have sown wheat and have reaped thorns;
^rthey have tired themselves out but profit nothing.
They shall be ashamed of their ^{▼▼Hebrew your} harvests
^tbecause of the fierce anger of the Lord.”

Joel 1:10-12

10 The fields are destroyed,
^uthe ground mourns,
because ^vthe grain is destroyed,
^wthe wine dries up,
the oil languishes.
11 ^xBe ashamed, ^{▼▼The Hebrew words for dry up and be ashamed in verses 10–12, 17 sound alike} O tillers of the soil;
wail, O vinedressers,
for the wheat and the barley,
^zbecause the harvest of the field has perished.
12 The vine dries up;
^aathe fig tree languishes.
Pomegranate, palm, and apple,
all the trees of the field are dried up,
and ^abgladness dries up
from the children of man.