Lev 26:33-35 | NET2full | STEP | I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste .

‏ Leviticus 26:33-35

33 I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword ^{▼▼tn Heb “and I will empty sword” (see HALOT 1228 s.v. ריק 3).} after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.

34 “‘Then the land will make up for ^{▼▼tn There are two Hebrew roots רָצָה (ratsah), one meaning “to be pleased with; to take pleasure” (HALOT 1280-81 s.v. רצה; cf. “enjoy” in NASB, NIV, NRSV, and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 452), and the other meaning “to restore” (HALOT 1281-82 s.v. II רצה; cf. NAB “retrieve” and B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 189).} its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate while you are in the land of your enemies; then the land will rest and make up its Sabbaths. 35 All the days of the desolation it will have the rest it did not have ^{▼▼tn Heb “it shall rest which it did not rest.”} on your Sabbaths when you lived on it.