Leviticus 26:39

New American Bible - revised edition

Those of you who survive will waste away in the lands of their enemies, for their own and their ancestors’ guilt.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 34:24

Thus says the Lord: I am about to bring evil upon this place and upon its inhabitants, all the curses written in the book that was read before the king of Judah.

Ezra 9:7

From the time of our ancestors even to this day our guilt has been great, and for our wicked deeds we have been delivered, we and our kings and our priests, into the hands of the kings of foreign lands, to the sword, to captivity, to pillage, and to disgrace, as is the case today.

Nehemiah 1:9

but if you return to me and carefully keep my commandments, even though your outcasts have been driven to the farthest corner of the world, I will gather them from there, and bring them back to the place I have chosen as the dwelling place for my name.

Exodus 20:5

you shall not bow down before them or serve them. For I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, inflicting punishment for their ancestors’ wickedness on the children of those who hate me, down to the third and fourth generation;

Exodus 34:7

continuing his love for a thousand generations, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion, and sin; yet not declaring the guilty guiltless, but bringing punishment for their parents’ wickedness on children and children’s children to the third and fourth generation!

Isaiah 14:21

Make ready to slaughter his sons for the guilt of their fathers; Lest they rise and possess the earth, and fill the breadth of the world with cities.

Isaiah 24:16

From the end of the earth we hear songs: “Splendor to the Just One!” But I said, “I am wasted, wasted away. Woe is me! The traitors betray; with treachery have the traitors betrayed!

Jeremiah 29:12

When you call me, and come and pray to me, I will listen to you.

Jeremiah 3:25

Let us lie down in our shame, let our disgrace cover us, for we have sinned against the Lord, our God, We and our ancestors, from our youth to this day; we did not listen to the voice of the Lord, our God.”

Jeremiah 31:29

In those days they shall no longer say, “The parents ate unripe grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge,”

Lamentations 1:3

Judah has gone into exile, after oppression and harsh labor; She dwells among the nations, yet finds no rest: All her pursuers overtake her in the narrow straits.

Lamentations 4:9

Better for those pierced by the sword than for those pierced by hunger, Better for those who bleed from wounds than for those who lack food.

Ezekiel 18:19

You ask: “Why is not the son charged with the guilt of his father?” Because the son has done what is just and right and has been careful to observe all my statutes—he shall surely live!

Ezekiel 20:43

There you shall remember your ways, all the deeds by which you defiled yourselves; and you shall loathe yourselves because of all the evil you did.

Ezekiel 24:23

Your turbans shall remain on your heads, your sandals on your feet. You shall not mourn or weep, but you shall waste away because of your sins and groan to one another.

Ezekiel 33:10

As for you, son of man, speak to the house of Israel: You people say, “Our crimes and our sins weigh us down; we are rotting away because of them. How can we survive?”

Ezekiel 36:31

Then you will remember your evil behavior and your deeds that were not good; you will loathe yourselves for your sins and your abominations.

Ezekiel 4:17

Because they lack bread and water they shall be devastated; each and every one will waste away because of their guilt.

Ezekiel 6:9

Then your refugees will remember me among the nations to which they have been exiled, after I have broken their lusting hearts that turned away from me and their eyes that lusted after idols. They will loathe themselves for all the evil they have done, for all their abominations.

Hosea 5:15

I will go back to my place until they make reparation and seek my presence. In their affliction, they shall look for me.

Zechariah 10:9

I sowed them among the nations, yet in distant lands they will remember me; they will bear their children and return.

Numbers 14:18

‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in kindness, forgiving iniquity and rebellion; yet certainly not declaring the guilty guiltless, but punishing children to the third and fourth generation for their parents’ iniquity.’

Deuteronomy 28:65

Among these nations you will find no rest, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot, for there the Lord will give you an anguished heart and wearied eyes and a trembling spirit.

Deuteronomy 30:1

When all these things, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, come upon you, and you take them to heart in any of the nations where the Lord, your God, has dispersed you,

Deuteronomy 5:9

you shall not bow down before them or serve them. For I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, bringing punishment for their parents’ wickedness on the children of those who hate me, down to the third and fourth generation,

Deuteronomy 8:20

Like the nations which the Lord destroys before you, so shall you too perish for not listening to the voice of the Lord, your God.