²⁰ 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.

¹ <A Song of the going up. Of Solomon.> If the Lord is not helping the builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose: if the Lord does not keep the town, the watchman keeps his watch for nothing.

⁴ And I said, I have undergone weariness for nothing, I have given my strength for no purpose or profit: but still the Lord will take up my cause, and my God will give me my reward.

¹⁷ For if you do so, the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, and the heaven will be shut up so that there is no rain and the land will give no fruit; and in a very little time you will be cut off from the good land which the Lord is giving you.

⁴ Then I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will give her increase and the trees of the field will give their fruit;

¹¹ I am in fear of you, that I may have been working for you to no purpose.

⁶ I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God gave the increase.

¹⁶ How, when anyone came to a store of twenty measures, there were only ten: when anyone went to the wine-store to get fifty vessels full, there were only twenty.

⁹ You were looking for much, and it came to little; and when you got it into your house, I took it away with a breath. Why? says the Lord of armies. Because of my house which is a waste, while every man takes care of the house which is his.

¹⁰ For this cause the heaven over you is kept from giving dew, and the earth from giving her fruit.

¹¹ And by my order no rain came on the land or on the mountains or the grain or the wine or the oil or the produce of the earth or on men or cattle or on any work of man's hands.

¹³ See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?

¹¹ In the day of your planting you were watching its growth, and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is wasted away in the day of grief and bitter sorrow.

³⁴ He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.

⁴⁰ Then in place of grain let thorns come up, and in place of barley evil-smelling plants.

⁴² All your trees and the fruit of your land will be the locust's.

³⁸ You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it.

³⁹ You will put in vines and take care of them, but you will get no wine or grapes from them; for they will be food for worms.

⁴⁰ Your land will be full of olive-trees, but there will be no oil for the comfort of your body; for your olive-tree will give no fruit.

¹⁸ A curse will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.