As long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it.
Parallel translations
- WEB As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn’t have in your Sabbaths, when you lived on it.
- KJV As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
- NKJV As long as it lies desolate it shall rest— for the time it did not rest on your sabbaths when you dwelt in it.
- NASB All the days of its desolation it will have the rest which it did not have on your Sabbaths, while you were living on it.
- NLT As long as the land lies in ruins, it will enjoy the rest you never allowed it to take every seventh year while you lived in it.
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Quick answer
The land will rest during the desolation the rest it lacked while Israel lived on it. Neglected obedience is recompensed in exile.
Overview
This restates the principle that the land receives in exile the Sabbath rest withheld during Israel's disobedience. The repetition stresses how thoroughly God's commands stand. It underscores that disregard for God's order has real consequences, while pointing toward the deeper rest God ultimately gives His people in Christ.
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- Isa 24:5–6The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.
- Rom 8:22We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time.
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