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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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.
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.
And your strength shall be exhausted vain, and your land shall not give its produce, and the tree of the land shall not give its fruit.
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And your strength shalbe spent in vaine: neither shall your lande giue her increase, neither shall the trees of the land giue their fruite.
Your labour shall be spent in vain, the ground shall not bring forth her increase, nor the trees 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 has been consumed in vain, and your land does not give her produce, and the tree of the land does not give its fruit.
Your strength will be used up for nothing, because your land will not produce its harvest, and your trees in the land will not produce their fruit.
And your strength shall be exhausted vain, and your land shall not give its produce, and the tree of the land shall not give its 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.
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.
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 strength will be completely wasted because your land won't produce crops, and your trees won't produce 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.
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.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is לָרִ֖יק emptiness H7385 — appearing just 12 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
לָרִ֖יק emptiness H7385 occurs in 12 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 25 words from the Hebrew and 26 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וְתַ֥ם לָרִ֖יק כֹּחֲכֶ֑ם וְלֹֽא תִתֵּ֤ן אַרְצְכֶם֙ אֶת יְבוּלָ֔הּ וְעֵ֣ץ הָאָ֔רֶץ לֹ֥א יִתֵּ֖ן פִּרְיֽוֹ
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.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί εἰμί εἰς κενός ὁ ἰσχύς σύ καί οὐ δίδωμι ὁ γῆ σύ ὁ σπόρος αὐτός καί ὁ ξύλον ὁ ἀγρός σύ οὐ δίδωμι ὁ καρπός αὐτός
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.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וִיסוּפוּן לְרֵיקָנוּ חֵילֵיכוֹן וְלָא תִתֵּן אַרְעֲכוֹן יָת עֲלַלְתָּהּ וְאִילַן אַרְעָא לָא יִתֵּן אִבֵּהּ
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
וִיסוּף לְרֵיקָנוּ חֵילֵיכוֹן וְלָא תִתֵּן אַרְעֲכוֹן יַת מַה דְאַתּוּן מַעֲלִין לְגַוָוהּ וְאִילַן דְאַנְפֵּי בָרָא יְקַלַח פֵּירוֹי
And your strength shall be consumed in vain, for your land shall not yield what you bestow upon it, and the tree upon the face of the field shall drop its fruit.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Leviticus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 13 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is rîyq (“emptiness”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Leviticus 26:20 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.