Leviticus 26:35

Modern English Version

As long as it lies desolate it shall rest because it did not rest during your sabbaths when you lived upon it.

Cross References

Jeremiah 34:17

Therefore thus says the Lord: You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming liberty, everyone to his brother and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim a liberty to you, says the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Leviticus 25:2

Speak to the Israelites, and say to them: When you come into the land that I give you, the land shall keep a sabbath to the Lord.

Leviticus 26:34

Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.

Leviticus 26:36

And on those who are left alive of you I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall make them flee, and they shall flee as from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues.

Romans 8:22

We know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.