Leviticus 26:33
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New International Version (©2011)
I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste, and your cities will lie in ruins.

New Living Translation (©2007)
I will scatter you among the nations and bring out my sword against you. Your land will become desolate, and your cities will lie in ruins.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
'You, however, I will scatter among the nations and will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become waste.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
But I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword to chase after you. So your land will become desolate, and your cities will become ruins."

International Standard Version (©2012)
"I'll scatter you among the nations and draw the sword after you so that your land becomes desolate and your towns become ruins.

NET Bible (©2006)
I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
I will scatter you among the nations. War will follow you. Your country will be in ruins. Your cities will be deserted.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And I will scatter you among the nations, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

American King James Version
And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

American Standard Version
And you will I scatter among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will scatter you among the Gentiles, and I will draw out the sword after you, and your land shall be desert, and your cities destroyed.

Darby Bible Translation
And I will scatter you among the nations, and will draw out the sword after you; and your land shall be desolation, and your cities waste.

English Revised Version
And you will I scatter among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

Webster's Bible Translation
And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

World English Bible
I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

Young's Literal Translation
And you I scatter among nations, and have drawn out after you a sword, and your land hath been a desolation, and your cities are a waste.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

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 by the things they suffer, God himself would be against them; and this is the root and cause of all their misery. And also, The whole creation would be at war with them. All God's sore judgments would be sent against them. The threatenings here are very particular, they were prophecies, and He that foresaw all their rebellions, knew they would prove so. TEMPORAL judgments are threatened. Those who will not be parted from their sins by the commands of God, shall be parted from them by judgments. Those wedded to their lusts, will have enough of them. SPIRITUAL judgments are threatened, which should seize the mind. They should find no acceptance with God. A guilty conscience would be their continual terror. It is righteous with God to leave those to despair of pardon, who presume to sin; and it is owing to free grace, if we are not left to pine away in the iniquity we were born in, and have lived in.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And I will scatter you among the Heathen,.... As with a fan, Jeremiah 15:7; so they were at the time of the Assyrian and Babylonish captivities, some were carried to one place, and some to another, some fled to one place, and some to another, and they are at this day scattered among the several nations of the world:

and will draw out a sword after you; draw it out of its scabbard, and with it pursue after them, when fleeing or going whither they should not; as the remainder of the Jews in Judea sought to go to Egypt, contrary to the will of God, Jeremiah 42:16; see Leviticus 26:25,

and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste; for want of men to till the one, and inhabit the other.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

33. I will scatter you among the heathen, &c.—as was done when the elite of the nation were removed into Assyria and placed in various parts of the kingdom.

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Punishments for Disobedience
…32And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it. 33And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste. 34Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lies desolate, and you be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths. …

Deuteronomy 4:27 The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
Deuteronomy 28:64 Then the LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods--gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.
2 Chronicles 7:19 "But if you turn away and forsake the decrees and commands I have given you and go off to serve other gods and worship them,
Nehemiah 1:8 "Remember the instruction you gave your servant Moses, saying, 'If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations,
Psalm 44:11 You gave us up to be devoured like sheep and have scattered us among the nations.
Psalm 106:27 make their descendants fall among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.
Isaiah 1:7 Your country is desolate, your cities burned with fire; your fields are being stripped by foreigners right before you, laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.
Jeremiah 7:34 I will bring an end to the sounds of joy and gladness and to the voices of bride and bridegroom in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, for the land will become desolate.
Jeremiah 9:16 I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known, and I will pursue them with the sword until I have made an end of them."
Jeremiah 13:24 "I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.
Jeremiah 15:4 I will make them abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah did in Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 31:10 "Hear the word of the LORD, you nations; proclaim it in distant coastlands: 'He who scattered Israel will gather them and will watch over his flock like a shepherd.'