Leviticus 26:35

All the days while it is waste will the land have rest, such rest as it never had in your Sabbaths, when you were living in it.

Bible in Basic English

In The 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.

In Context

34Then will the land take pleasure in its Sabbaths while it is waste and you are living in the land of your haters; then will the land have rest.

36And as for the rest of you, I will make their hearts feeble in the land of their haters, and the sound of a leaf moved by the wind will send them in flight, and they will go in flight as from the sword, falling down when no one comes after them;

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Cross References

Leviticus 25:2Say to the children of Israel, When you come into the land which I will give you, let the land keep a Sabbath to the Lord.

Romans 8:22For we are conscious that all living things are weeping and sorrowing in pain together till now.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 26:15-40

Threatenings. ( b. c. 1490.) 14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; 15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: 16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17 And I will set my face… Read the whole commentary →

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