Leviticus 26 · Verse 38

Leviticus 26:38

And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
Leviticus 26:38, King James Version

Leviticus 26:38 in other translations

BSBYou will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.
WEBYou will perish among the nations. The land of your enemies will eat you up.
ASVAnd ye shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
YLTand ye have perished among the nations, and the land of your enemies hath consumed you.
DARBYAnd ye shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
BBEAnd death will overtake you among strange nations, and the land of your haters will be your destruction.
WebsterAnd ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

What does Leviticus 26:38 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
38. the land of your enemies shall eat you up, &c.--On the removal of the ten tribes into captivity, they never returned, and all traces of them were lost.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 38 The land of your enemies shall eat you up - Does this refer to the total loss of the ten tribes? These are so completely swallowed up in some enemies' land, that nothing concerning their existence or place of residence remains but mere conjecture.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Leviticus 26:14-39

After God has set the blessing before them which would make them a happy people if they would be obedient, he here sets the curse before them, the evils which would make them miserable, if they were disobedient. Two things would bring ruin. 1. A contempt of God's commandments. They that reject the precept, will come at last to renounce the covenant. 2. A contempt of his corrections. If they will not learn obedience…

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Leviticus 26:38 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַאֲבַדְתֶּ֖םva.'a.vad.Temand you will perishH6
בַּגּוֹיִ֑םba.go.Yimamong the nationsH1471
וְאָכְלָ֣הve.'a.khe.Lahand it will consumeH398
אֶתְכֶ֔ם'et.Khem<obj.> youH853
אֶ֖רֶץ'E.retz[the] land ofH776
אֹיְבֵיכֶֽם\׃'o.ye.vei.Khemenemies yourH341

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Cross references for Leviticus 26:38

  • Jeremiah 42:17-18

    So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them. For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.

  • Isaiah 27:13

    And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

  • Deuteronomy 28:68

    And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.

  • Deuteronomy 28:48

    Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the Lord shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

  • Deuteronomy 4:26-27

    I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed. And the Lord shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the Lord shall lead you.

  • Jeremiah 44:12-14

    And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach. For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.

  • Jeremiah 42:22

    Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go and to sojourn.

  • Jeremiah 44:27-28

    Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them. Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
De 4:27; 28:48,68; Isa 27:13; Jer 42:17,18,22; 44:12-14,27,28

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Context

  • Leviticus 26:37

    And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

  • Leviticus 26:38

    And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

  • Leviticus 26:39

    And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.

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Leviticus 26:38 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y pereceréis entre las gentes, y la tierra de vuestros enemigos os consumirá.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
et vous périrez parmi les nations, et le pays de vos ennemis vous dévorera.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und ihr werdet umkommen unter den Nationen, und das Land eurer Feinde wird euch fressen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Peribitis inter gentes, et hostilis vos terra consumet.