KJV King James Version
As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
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Leviticus 26:35
As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
As long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it.
WEB World English Bible
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.
ASV American Standard Version
As long as it lieth desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it had not in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
all the days of the desolation it resteth that which it hath not rested in your sabbaths in your dwelling on it.
Surrounding context — Leviticus 26
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.
38 And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
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כָּל־H3605 · kolallיְמֵ֥יH3117 · yomdayהָשַּׁמָּ֖הH8074 · sha.membe desolate: destroyedתִּשְׁבֹּ֑תH7673 · sha.vatto ceaseאֵ֣תH853 · et[Obj.]אֲשֶׁ֧רH834 · a.sherwhichלֹֽא־H3808 · lonotשָׁבְתָ֛הH7673 · sha.vatto ceaseבְּשַׁבְּתֹתֵיכֶ֖םH7676 · shab.batSabbathבְּשִׁבְתְּכֶ֥םH3427 · ya.shavto dwellעָלֶֽיהָ׃H5921 · alupon
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