Your strength will be spent in vain, because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of your land yield their fruit. The futility of the second curse level: strength spent in vain. The labor that should produce crops and fruit produces nothing because the ground is bronze-hard. The community that refused to rest the land in the sabbatical year faces the land's forced rest through drought and hardness. The covenant curse mirrors the covenant command that was rejected: the land rests whether the community commands it to or not.

COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS

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