34 aThen the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land;
then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
35 As long as it lies desolate it shall rest—
for the time it did not rest on your asabbaths when you dwelt in it.
for the time it did not rest on your asabbaths when you dwelt in it.
36 ‘And as for those of you who are left, I will send afaintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies;
the sound of a shaken leaf shall cause them to flee;
they shall flee as though fleeing from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues.
the sound of a shaken leaf shall cause them to flee;
they shall flee as though fleeing from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues.
37 aThey shall stumble over one another, as it were before a sword, when no one pursues;
and byou shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
and byou shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
38 You shall aperish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
39 And those of you who are left ashall waste away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands;
also in their bfathers’ iniquities, which are with them, they shall waste away.
also in their bfathers’ iniquities, which are with them, they shall waste away.
40 ‘But aif they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me,
41 and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies;
if their auncircumcised hearts are bhumbled, and they caccept their guilt—
if their auncircumcised hearts are bhumbled, and they caccept their guilt—
42 then I will aremember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember;
I will bremember the land.
I will bremember the land.
43 aThe land also shall be left empty by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them;
they will accept their guilt, because they bdespised My judgments and because their soul abhorred My statutes.
they will accept their guilt, because they bdespised My judgments and because their soul abhorred My statutes.
44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, aI will not cast them away, nor shall I abhor them, to utterly destroy them and break My covenant with them;
for I am the Lord their God.
for I am the Lord their God.
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
Commentaries:
No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Leviticus 26:36.
Leviticus 26:36-42
The general principle revealed here is a gradual ever-increasing intensity of pressure brought to bear upon God's people in order to bring about the much desired knowledge of God, followed by repentance and reformation of life.
Knowledge, acceptance, doing, but with an ever increasing intensity of pressure God has already deemed as necessary to bring people to this point.
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