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Leviticus 26:32

in Leviticus 26

And I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein shall be astonished at it.

KJV

And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.

This verse in Leviticus 26

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

And I will lay waste the land

on Leviticus 26:32-33

Scattering is the last of the curses and it undoes the gift of the land itself. The enemies who take the ground are astonished at what they find, a detail a reader expects in a lament.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And I will bring the land into desolation,....

The words behind it

9 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַהֲשִׁמֹּתִ֥יand I will devastate

    vahashimotiH8074 →86 times

  • אֲנִ֖יI

    ʾaniH589 →874 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הָאָ֑רֶץthe land

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

  • וְשָֽׁמְמ֤וּand they will be appalled

    veshamuH8074 →86 times

  • עָלֶ֙יהָ֙on it

    ʾaleihaH5921 →5755 times

  • אֹֽיְבֵיכֶ֔םenemies your

    ʾoyeveikhemH341 →282 times

  • הַיֹּשְׁבִ֖יםwho dwell

    haiyoshevimH3427 →1079 times

  • בָּֽהּ׃in <the> it

    bah

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 25:11

    And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.

    it leads to

    • Daniel 9:2

      in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.

    • Zechariah 1:12

      Then the angel of the LORD said, “How long, O LORD of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been angry these seventy years?”

    • 2 Chronicles 36:21–22

      So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD through Jeremiah.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 18:16

    They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 22:7

      All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads:

    • Jeremiah 25:9

      behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents,…

    • Jeremiah 19:8

      I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 19:8

    I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 18:16

      They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 9:11

    “And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 25:2

      Indeed, You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin. The fortress of strangers is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.