KJV King James Version
Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye [be] in your enemies’ land; [even] then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
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Leviticus 26:34
Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye [be] in your enemies’ land; [even] then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
WEB World English Bible
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.
ASV American Standard Version
Then shall the land enjoy its sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye are in your enemies’ land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy its sabbaths.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘Then doth the land enjoy its sabbaths—all the days of the desolation, and ye in the land of your enemies—then doth the land rest, and hath enjoyed its sabbaths;
Surrounding context — Leviticus 26
31 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
32 And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
33 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
34 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye [be] in your enemies’ land; [even] then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
35 As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
36 And upon them that are left [alive] of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
37 And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
אָז֩H227 · azthenתִּרְצֶ֨הH7521 · ra.tsahto acceptהָאָ֜רֶץH776 · e.retsland: country/planetאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]שַׁבְּתֹתֶ֗יהָH7676 · shab.batSabbathכֹּ֚לH3605 · kolallיְמֵ֣יH3117 · yomdayהֳשַׁמָּ֔הH8074 · sha.membe desolate: destroyedוְאַתֶּ֖םH859 · at.tahyou(m.s.)בְּאֶ֣רֶץH776 · e.retsland: country/planetאֹיְבֵיכֶ֑םH341 · o.yevenemyאָ֚זH227 · azthenתִּשְׁבַּ֣תH7673 · sha.vatto ceaseהָאָ֔רֶץH776 · e.retsland: country/planetוְהִרְצָ֖תH7521 · ra.tsahto acceptאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]שַׁבְּתֹתֶֽיהָ׃H7676 · shab.batSabbath
Cross-references
2 Chronicles 36:21To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: [for] as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.Leviticus 26:43The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.Leviticus 25:2-4Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD.Leviticus 25:10And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout [all] the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
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