Leviticus 26:4 promises the opposite blessing: land yielding fruit — contrasting the curse here where land does not yield.

Deuteronomy 11:17 repeats the same curse: no rain and land yielding no fruit — a parallel covenant warning.

Deuteronomy 28:18 curses 'fruit of your ground' — a parallel curse to the land's failed increase here.

Deuteronomy 28:38-40 elaborates on wasted labor: sowing much but reaping little — a concrete example of 'strength spent in vain' here.

Deuteronomy 28:42 says locusts will take your trees' fruit — a specific manifestation of the land's failed increase.

Psalm 107:34 echoes the same cause-and-effect: human sin turns fruitful land barren, reinforcing the covenant curse pattern.

Isaiah 49:4 echoes 'strength spent in vain' from the Servant's perspective, contrasting the curse's judgment with faithful trust.

Isaiah 17:10 rebukes Israel for forgetting God, resulting in failed harvests – a direct parallel to the curse in Leviticus 26:20.

Haggai 1:6 depicts the same futility: sowing much but harvesting little, never satisfied.

Micah 6:15 directly repeats the futility: sowing but not reaping, treading but not enjoying.

Joel 1:10 describes wasted fields and dried-up wine and oil — matching the agricultural curse.

Jeremiah 14:4 portrays the same drought-stricken land with cracked ground and ashamed farmers.

Jeremiah 8:13 echoes the same curse: no grapes, figs, or leaves — the land's fertility fails as judgment.

Isaiah 65:23 promises the opposite of Leviticus 26:20: labor will not be in vain for the blessed, highlighting the reversal of the curse.

Genesis 4:12 parallels the same curse on the ground for Cain's sin, showing a consistent pattern of agricultural curse as divine judgment.

In Haggai 1:9-11, similar agricultural curses strike because the people neglected the temple, reflecting covenantal cause-and-effect.

Haggai 2:16 depicts failed harvests as divine judgment, mirroring the curse of wasted labor in Leviticus 26:20.

2 Kings 8:1 describes a divinely ordained famine, echoing the theme of agricultural hardship from Leviticus 26:20.

2 Samuel 24:13 lists famine as a divine punishment, consistent with the curse on land in Leviticus 26:20.

Habakkuk 2:13 describes nations laboring 'for nothing' as divine judgment on unjust builders — reinforcing the theme of futile effort under God's wrath.

2 Samuel 21:1 shows a famine resulting from Saul's sin, similar to the covenantal curse on land in Leviticus 26:20.

Job 31:40 invokes a curse of thorns instead of wheat — similar to land not yielding, but as a hypothetical self-imprecation.