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 towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.
• Lev 26:15and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;
• Job 5:17“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
• Jer 31:19Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I struck on my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.’
• 2 Chr 33:12When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
• Ps 50:15Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
• Ps 119:71It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.
• Ps 119:67Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.
• Lev 26:41I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity;
• Isa 26:16Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.
• Lev 26:30I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.
• Job 34:31–32“For has any said to God, ‘I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.
• Ps 50:17since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?
• 2 Kgs 17:7–17It was so because the children of Israel had sinned against Yahweh their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
• Ps 119:75Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
• John 7:7The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
• Dan 9:14Therefore has Yahweh watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.
• 2 Chr 36:14–16Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted Yahweh’s house which he had made holy in Jerusalem.
• Zech 11:8I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
• Amos 5:10They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.
• John 15:23–24He who hates me, hates my Father also.
• Heb 12:5–11and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;
• Dan 9:7–9Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.
• Lev 26:34–35Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
• 1 Kgs 8:46–48If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

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