Leviticus 26:43

The land will enjoy its Sabbaths in their absence while they accept the just punishment for rejecting God's law. Judgment and the path to restoration go together.

Cross-references · 25

• Rom 8:7because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
• Lev 26:15and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,
• Job 5:17Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
• Jer 31:19After I returned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’
• 2 Chr 33:12And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.
• Ps 50:15Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”
• Ps 119:71It was good for me to be afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes.
• Ps 119:67Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I keep Your word.
• Lev 26:41and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity,
• Isa 26:16O LORD, they sought You in their distress; when You disciplined them, they poured out a quiet prayer.
• Lev 26:30I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.
• Job 34:31–32Suppose someone says to God, ‘I have endured my punishment; I will offend no more.
• Ps 50:17For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.
• 2 Kgs 17:7–17All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods
• Ps 119:75I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.
• John 7:7The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.
• Dan 9:14Therefore the LORD has kept the calamity in store and brought it upon us. For the LORD our God is righteous in all He does; yet we have not obeyed His voice.
• 2 Chr 36:14–16Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.
• Zech 11:8And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me.
• Amos 5:10There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.
• John 15:23–24Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well.
• Heb 12:5–11And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.
• Dan 9:7–9To You, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but this day we are covered with shame—the men of Judah, the people of Jerusalem, and all Israel near and far, in all the countries to which You have driven us because of our unfaithfulness to You.
• Lev 26:34–35Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
• 1 Kgs 8:46–48When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to his own land, whether far or near,

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