Leviticus 26:35

Verse

As long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it.

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Bible in Basic English

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.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In the enemy’s land, she shall keep a sabbath, and rest in the sabbaths of her desolation, because she did not rest in your sabbaths when you dwelt therein.

Free Bible Version

The whole time it's abandoned the land will observe the Sabbaths of rest that it wasn't able to do while you were living there.

Geneva Bible 1599

All the dayes that it lieth voide, it shall rest, because it did not rest in your Sabbaths, when ye dwelt vpon it.

King James (Authorized) Version

As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

One Unity Resource 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.

Translation for Translators

All the time that your land is desolate, it will be able to rest, like you did not enable it to rest during all the years that you lived there.

Unlocked Literal Bible

As long as it lies abandoned, it will have rest, which will be the rest that it did not have with your Sabbaths, when you lived in it.

Noah Webster Bible

As long as it lieth desolate, it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

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.

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.

Context

Punishments for Disobedience

³⁴Then 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.³⁵As long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it.

Summary

This verse in Leviticus is part of God's warning to the Israelites about the consequences of disobedience to His commandments. It speaks of the severe judgment that will come upon the people if they continue to reject God and His statutes. The mention of the land lying desolate in their absence serves as a vivid image of the devastation that will result from their rebellion. Ultimately, this verse underscores the importance of obedience and faithfulness in maintaining a covenant relationship with God.

Commentary

John Gill

John Gill Bible Commentary

And upon them that are left alive of you,.... In the land of Judea, or rather scattered about among the nations, suggesting that these would be comparatively few: I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; or "a softness" (y); so that they should be effeminate, pusillanimous, and cowardly, have nothing of a manly spirit and courage in them; but be mean spirited and faint hearted, as the Jews are noted to be at this day, as Bishop Patrick observes; who also adds,"it being scarce ever heard, that a Jew listed himself for a soldier, or engaged in the defence of his country where he lives:" and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; either the sound of a leaf that falls from the tree, as the Targum of Jonathan, or which the wind beats one against another, as Jarchi, which makes some little noise; even this should terrify them, taking it to be the noise of some enemy near at hand, just ready to fall on them; such poor faint hearted creatures should they be: and they shall flee as fleeing from the sword; as if there were an army of soldiers with their swords drawn pursuing them: and they shall fall when none pursueth; fall upon the ground, and into a fit, and drop down as if dead, as if they had been really wounded with a sword and slain, see Pro 28:1. (y) "mollitiem", Montanus, Vatablus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius.