Leviticus 26:34

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

While you are prisoners in foreign lands, your own land will enjoy years of rest and refreshment, as it should have done each seventh year when you lived there.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:46

Everyone sins. But when your people sin against you, suppose you get angry enough to let their enemies drag them away to foreign countries.

2 Chronicles 36:21

Judah was an empty desert, and it stayed that way for seventy years, to make up for all the years it was not allowed to rest. These things happened just as Jeremiah the LORD's prophet had said.

Jeremiah 34:17

You have disobeyed me by not giving your slaves their freedom. So I will give you freedom—the freedom to die in battle or from disease or hunger. I will make you disgusting to all other nations on earth.

Leviticus 25:10

This fiftieth year is sacred—it is a time of freedom and of celebration when everyone will receive back their original property, and slaves will return home to their families.

Leviticus 26:43

and let it rest during the time that you are in a foreign country, paying for your rebellion against me and my laws.