Leviticus 26:39

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

And those of you who survive shall languish in the land of your enemies because of their iniquities; they shall also languish because of the iniquities of their ancestors.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 34:24

‘Thus says the Lord: I will indeed bring disaster upon this place and upon its inhabitants, all the curses that are written in the book that was read before the king of Judah.

Ezra 9:7

From the days of our ancestors to this day we have been deep in guilt, and for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been handed over to the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plundering, and to utter shame, as is now the case.

Nehemiah 1:9

but if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts are under the farthest skies, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place where I have chosen to establish my name.’

Exodus 20:5

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me

Exodus 34:7

keeping steadfast love for the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, yet by no means clearing the guilty, but visiting the iniquity of the parents upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”

Isaiah 14:21

Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons because of the guilt of their father. Let them never rise to possess the earth or cover the face of the world with cities.

Isaiah 24:16

From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise, of glory to the Righteous One. But I say, “I pine away; I pine away. Woe is me! For the treacherous deal treacherously; the treacherous deal very treacherously.”

Jeremiah 29:12

Then when you call upon me and come and pray to me, I will hear you.

Jeremiah 3:25

Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us, for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our ancestors, from our youth even to this day, and we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”

Jeremiah 31:29

In those days they shall no longer say: “The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.”

Lamentations 1:3

Judah has gone into exile with suffering and hard servitude; she lives now among the nations; she finds no resting place; her pursuers have all overtaken her in the midst of her distress.

Lamentations 4:9

Happier were those pierced by the sword than those pierced by hunger, whose life drains away, deprived of the produce of the field.

Ezekiel 18:19

Yet you say, “Why should not the son suffer for the iniquity of the father?” When the son has done what is lawful and right and has been careful to observe all my statutes, he shall surely live.

Ezekiel 20:43

There you shall remember your ways and all the deeds by which you have polluted yourselves, and you shall loathe yourselves for all the evils that you have committed.

Ezekiel 24:23

Your turbans shall be on your heads and your sandals on your feet; you shall not mourn or weep, but you shall pine away in your iniquities and groan to one another.

Ezekiel 33:10

Now you, mortal, say to the house of Israel: Thus you have said: “Our transgressions and our sins weigh upon us, and we waste away because of them; how then can we live?”

Ezekiel 36:31

Then you shall remember your evil ways and your dealings that were not good, and you shall loathe yourselves for your iniquities and your abominable deeds.

Ezekiel 4:17

Lacking bread and water, they will look at one another in dismay and waste away under their punishment.

Ezekiel 6:9

Your survivors shall remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I was crushed by their wanton heart that turned away from me and their wanton eyes that turned after their idols. Then they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.

Hosea 5:15

I will return again to my place until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face. In their distress they will beg my favor:

Zechariah 10:9

Though I scattered them among the nations, yet in far countries they shall remember me, and they shall rear their children and return.

Numbers 14:18

‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the parents upon the children to the third and the fourth generation.’

Deuteronomy 28:65

Among those nations you shall find no ease, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a languishing spirit.

Deuteronomy 30:1

“When all these things have happened to you, the blessings and the curses that I have set before you, if you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you

Deuteronomy 5:9

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents to the third and fourth generation of those who reject me

Deuteronomy 8:20

Like the nations that the Lord is destroying before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God.