Leviticus 26:35
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“As long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it.”
A short, plain-language explanation of Leviticus 26:35 goes here — the kind of answer a reader (or an AI assistant) can quote in one breath. Original meaning coming soon.
“As long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.”
King James Version · Public Domain“As long as it lieth desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it had not in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“all the days of the desolation it resteth that which it hath not rested in your sabbaths in your dwelling on it.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Leviticus 26:35 — 3 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 25:2“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land itself must observe a Sabbath to the LORD.
- Isaiah 24:5The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.
- Romans 8:22We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).