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43 And the land shall be deserted by them, and it shall enjoy its Sabbaths in its being desolate from them, and they themselves[a] must pay for their guilt, simply because[b] they rejected my regulations, and their inner self[c] abhorred my statutes. 44 And in spite of[d] this, when they are[e] in the land of their enemies I will not reject them, and I will not abhor them to destroy them, to break my covenant with them, because I am Yahweh their God. 45 And I will remember the first covenant for them[f]—whom I brought out from the land of Egypt in the sight of[g] the nations to be their God.[h] I am Yahweh.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 26:43 Emphatic personal pronoun
  2. Leviticus 26:43 Literally “because and in because”
  3. Leviticus 26:43 Or “soul”
  4. Leviticus 26:44 Literally “also even” or “moreover also” or “moreover even”
  5. Leviticus 26:44 Literally “in their being”
  6. Leviticus 26:45 Or “on behalf of them” or “on their behalf”
  7. Leviticus 26:45 Literally “to the eyes of” or “for the eyes of”
  8. Leviticus 26:45 Literally “to be for them for God” or “to be for them as a God”