²⁰ Your strength will be spent in vain,^(A) because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of your land yield their fruit.^(B)

¹⁷ Then the Lord’s anger^(A) will burn against you, and he will shut up^(B) the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield no produce,^(C) and you will soon perish^(D) from the good land the Lord is giving you.