^26:33I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword⁵³ after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.

^26:34“ ‘Then the land will make up for⁵⁴ its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate while you are in the land of your enemies; then the land will rest and make up its Sabbaths. ^26:35All the days of the desolation it will have the rest it did not have⁵⁵ on your Sabbaths when you lived on it.

^26:36“ ‘As for⁵⁶ the ones who remain among you, I will bring despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a blowing leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one who flees the sword and fall down even though there is no pursuer. ^26:37They will stumble over each other as those who flee before a sword, though⁵⁷ there is no pursuer, and there will be no one to take a stand⁵⁸ for you before your enemies. ^26:38You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will consume you.

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^26:39“ ‘As for the ones who remain among you, they will rot away because of⁵⁹ their iniquity in the lands of your enemies, and they will also rot away because of their ancestors’⁶⁰ iniquities which are with them.

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Footnotes

53 Heb “and I will empty sword” (see ריק 3).
54 There are two Hebrew roots רָצָה (ratsah), one meaning “to be pleased with; to take pleasure” ( רצה; cf. “enjoy” in , , , and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [], ), and the other meaning “to restore” ( II רצה; cf. “retrieve” and B. A. Levine, Leviticus [], ).
55 Heb “it shall rest which it did not rest.”
56 Heb “And.”
57 Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) is used in a concessive sense here.
58 The term rendered “to stand up” is a noun, not an infinitive. It occurs only here and appears to designate someone who would take a powerful stand for them against their enemies.
59 Heb “in” (so , ; also later in this verse).
60 Heb “fathers’ ” (also in the following verse).