John Gill's Exposition on Leviticus 26:20

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And your strength shall be spent in vain, etc.] 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, etc. 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 <350317>Habakkuk 3:17); all this is the reverse of (<032604>Leviticus 26:4,5,10).

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