KJV ORIGINAL
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.
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE
Your hard work will be wasted: your land won't produce crops, and the trees won't bear fruit.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
God is warning that disobedience will result in fruitless labor—working hard but seeing no results from the land.
📚 Historical Context
This verse is part of God's covenant warnings to the Israelites before they entered the Promised Land. God was explaining the consequences of disobeying His laws, particularly the agricultural disasters that would follow. In an agricultural society, crop failure meant economic collapse and potential starvation.
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