📜WEB · Leviticus 26:33
What does Leviticus 26:33 mean?
"I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste."
— Leviticus 26:33 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.
I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation. I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.
I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein will be astonished at it.
I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn’t have in your Sabbaths, when you lived on it.
“‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.
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