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Leviticus 26:38 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" You will perish among the nations. The land of your enemies will eat you up. "
Leviticus 26:38
Verse in Context
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36 “‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.
37 They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues. You will have no power to stand before your enemies.
38 You will perish among the nations. The land of your enemies will eat you up.
39 Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away with them.
40 “‘If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me; and also that because they walked contrary to me,
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Leviticus 26:1
"“‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, and you shall not raise up a carved image or a pillar, and you shall not place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am the LORD your God."
Leviticus 26:2
"“‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the LORD."
Leviticus 26:3
"“‘If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments, and do them,"
Leviticus 26:4
"then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit."
Leviticus 26:5
"Your threshing shall continue until the vintage, and the vintage shall continue until the sowing time. You shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely."
Leviticus 26:6
"“‘I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid. I will remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land."
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