Leviticus 26:38
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.”
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“You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And ye shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and ye have perished among the nations, and the land of your enemies hath consumed you.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Leviticus 26:38 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 4:26I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.
- Deuteronomy 28:48you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
- Deuteronomy 28:68The LORD will return you to Egypt in ships by a route that I said you should never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”
- Isaiah 27:13And in that day a great ram’s horn will sound, and those who were perishing in Assyria will come forth with those who were exiles in Egypt. And they will worship the LORD on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 22:12but he will die in the place to which he was exiled; he will never see this land again.”
- Jeremiah 42:17So all who resolve to go to Egypt to reside there will die by sword and famine and plague. Not one of them will survive or escape the disaster I will bring upon them.’
- Jeremiah 42:22Now therefore, know for sure that by sword and famine and plague you will die in the place where you desire to go to reside.”
- Jeremiah 44:12And I will take away the remnant of Judah who have resolved to go to the land of Egypt to reside there; they will meet their end. They will all fall by the sword or be consumed by famine. From the least to the greatest, they will die by sword or famine; and they will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and reproach.
- Jeremiah 44:27I am watching over them for harm and not for good, and every man of Judah who is in the land of Egypt will meet his end by sword or famine, until they are finished off.
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