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.
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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.
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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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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.
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Passages linked to Leviticus 26:35 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Isaiah 24:5-6 The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left.
- Romans 8:22 For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Which I commanded you to keep.
Which I commanded you to keep.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lev 26:35 As long as it lieth desolate it…
Lev 26:35 As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
Ver. 35. {See Trapp on "Lev 26:34"}
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And upon them that are left alive of you,....…
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:"
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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.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Your sabbaths, holidays and years of rest, and of…
Your sabbaths, holidays and years of rest, and of jubilee. The earth is represented as entering into the views of God, and rejoicing at his judgments. (Haydock)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 35. Because it did not rest — The divine…
35. Because it did not rest — The divine government has its compensations. What it does not receive as a willing offering it extorts in the form of penalty. The riches gained by unlawfully tilling the soil during these sabbatic years were wasted in the captivity, and the despised law received its due in one payment.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (35) As long as it lieth desolate it shall…
(35) As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest . . . —Better, All the days of its desolation shall it keep that rest which it did not rest, &c, that is, the land during its desolation will not be cultivated but will lie fallow, and thus be enabled to make up by its long rest for the many sabbaths and sabbatical years of which it had been deprived by the lawless Israelites during their sojourn in it. (Comp. Jer_34:17; 2Ch_36:21.)
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