Leviticus 26:35 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 As long as it lies desolate, it shall have the rest it did not have on your Sabbaths when you were living on it. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition As long as it lies desolate and waste, it shall have rest, the rest it did not have in your sabbaths when you dwelt upon it. [II Chron. 36:21.] 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. Common English Bible During the whole time it is devastated, it will have the rest it didn’t have during the sabbaths you lived in it. Catholic Public Domain Version in the land of the enemy, she will worship and rest in the Sabbath of her solitude, because she will not have rested in your Sabbaths, when you lived in her. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version 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. |
Therefore, thus says the Lord: You have not obeyed me by granting a release to your neighbors and friends; I am going to grant a release to you, says the Lord—a release to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine. I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land shall observe a Sabbath for the Lord.
“Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbath years as long as it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies; then the land shall rest and enjoy its Sabbath years.
And as for those of you who survive, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; the sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall though no one pursues.
We know that the whole creation has been groaning together as it suffers together the pains of labor,