Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 26:20
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 shall be spent in vain; ploughing, and sowing, and tilling the ground.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
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 Hab 3:17 all this is the reverse of Le 26:4.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(20) And your strength shall be spent in vain.That is, with the heaven over them as metal, their labour expended in ploughing, digging, and sowing will be perfectly useless.
Your land shall not yield her increase, as no amount of human labour will make up for the want of rain. In Deu. 11:17, 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 her fruit.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Lev 26:20 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.
Ver. 20. Your land shall not yield. ] See this fulfilled. Jer 14:1-2 , &c., and Joe 1:12 Jer 8:13 And yet their country was called Sumen totius orbis. Cornelius Tacitus yields it to be a fruitful country. So did Rabshakeh long before. 2Ki 18:32
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
of the land. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch and Septuagint, read “of the field”.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
your strength: Psa 127:1, Isa 49:4, Hab 2:13, Gal 4:11
for your land: Lev 26:4, Deu 11:17, Deu 28:18, Deu 28:38-40, Deu 28:42, Job 31:40, Psa 107:34, Hag 1:9-11, Hag 2:16, 1Co 3:6
Reciprocal: Gen 4:12 – it 2Sa 21:1 – a famine 2Sa 24:13 – seven 2Ki 8:1 – the Lord Isa 17:10 – shalt thou Isa 65:23 – shall Jer 8:13 – there Jer 14:4 – the ground Joe 1:10 – field Mic 6:15 – General Hag 1:6 – have Mat 15:9 – in