Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version I will turn your cities into ruins and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings. New Living Translation I will make your cities desolate and destroy your places of pagan worship. I will take no pleasure in your offerings that should be a pleasing aroma to me. English Standard Version And I will lay your cities waste and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing aromas. Berean Standard Bible I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices. King James Bible And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours. New King James Version I will lay your cities waste and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the fragrance of your sweet aromas. New American Standard Bible I will turn your cities into ruins as well and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your soothing aromas. NASB 1995 ‘I will lay waste your cities as well and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your soothing aromas. NASB 1977 ‘I will lay waste your cities as well, and will make your sanctuaries desolate; and I will not smell your soothing aromas. Legacy Standard Bible And I will give your cities over as a waste and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your soothing aromas. Amplified Bible I will lay waste your cities as well and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your sweet and soothing aromas [of offerings by fire]. Christian Standard Bible I will reduce your cities to ruins and devastate your sanctuaries. I will not smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices. Holman Christian Standard Bible I will reduce your cities to ruins and devastate your sanctuaries. I will not smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices. American Standard Version And I will make your cities a waste, and will bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors. Contemporary English Version I'll wipe out your towns and your places of worship and will no longer be pleased with the smell of your sacrifices. English Revised Version And I will make your cities a waste, and will bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours. GOD'S WORD® Translation I will make your cities deserted and ruin your sacred places. I will no longer accept the soothing aroma from your sacrifices. Good News Translation I will turn your cities into ruins, destroy your places of worship, and refuse to accept your sacrifices. International Standard Version I'll lay your cities to waste and destroy your sanctuaries so I don't have to smell the scent of your soothing odors. Majority Standard Bible I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices. NET Bible I will lay your cities waste and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will refuse to smell your soothing aromas. New Heart English Bible I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings. Webster's Bible Translation And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors. World English Bible I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation. I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings. Literal Translations Literal Standard Versionand I have made your cities a ruin, and have made your sanctuaries desolate, and I do not smell your refreshing fragrance; Young's Literal Translation and I have made your cities a waste, and have made desolate your sanctuaries, and I smell not at your sweet fragrances; Smith's Literal Translation And I gave your cities a desert, and I laid waste your holy places, and I will not smell upon the odor of your sweetness. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleInsomuch that I will bring your cities to be a wilderness, and I will make your sanctuaries desolate, and will receive no more your sweet odours. Catholic Public Domain Version so much so that I will reduce your cities to a wilderness, and I will make your Sanctuaries desolate, and I will no longer accept the most sweet odors. New American Bible I will lay waste your cities and desolate your sanctuaries, refusing your sweet-smelling offerings. New Revised Standard Version I will lay your cities waste, will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing odors. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleAnd I will make your cities waste and reduce your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odors. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And I shall make your cities into a wilderness and I shall lay waste your sanctuaries and I shall not smell the fragrance of your savors. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917And I will make your cities a waste, and will bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours. Brenton Septuagint Translation And I will lay your cities waste, and I will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell the savour of your sacrifices. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Punishments for Disobedience…30I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you. 31I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices. 32And I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled.… Cross References Jeremiah 7:14 therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers. 2 Chronicles 7:20 then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples. Ezekiel 5:11 Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and abominations, I Myself will withdraw My favor; I will not look upon you with pity, nor will I spare you. Isaiah 64:10-11 Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation. / Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins. Lamentations 2:7 The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast. Micah 3:12 Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge. Jeremiah 26:6 then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city an object of cursing among all the nations of the earth.’” Ezekiel 7:20-22 His beautiful ornaments they transformed into pride and used them to fashion their vile images and detestable idols. Therefore I will make these into something unclean for them. / And I will hand these things over as plunder to foreigners and loot to the wicked of the earth, who will defile them. / I will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it, and they will defile it. 1 Kings 9:7-8 then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples. / And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’ Jeremiah 19:3-5 saying, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and residents of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster on this place that the ears of all who hear of it will ring, / because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent. / They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it even enter My mind. Matthew 23:38 Look, your house is left to you desolate. Luke 13:35 Look, your house is left to you desolate. And I tell you that you will not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’” Mark 13:2 “Do you see all these great buildings?” Jesus replied. “Not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.” Matthew 24:2 “Do you see all these things?” He replied. “Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.” Luke 21:6 “As for what you see here, the time will come when not one stone will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.” Treasury of Scripture And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the smell of your sweet odors. And I will make 2 Kings 25:4-10 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain… 2 Chronicles 36:19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof. Nehemiah 2:3,17 And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire? … and bring Psalm 74:3-8 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary… Jeremiah 22:5 But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation. Jeremiah 26:6,9 Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth… I will not smell Genesis 8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. Isaiah 1:11-14 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats… Isaiah 66:3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations. Jump to Previous Aroma Cities Delight Desolate Desolation Destruction Fragrance Fragrances Holy Lay Odors Odours Offerings Places Pleasing Pleasure Ruins Sanctuaries Savor Savour Smell Soothing Sweet Towns Turn WasteJump to Next Aroma Cities Delight Desolate Desolation Destruction Fragrance Fragrances Holy Lay Odors Odours Offerings Places Pleasing Pleasure Ruins Sanctuaries Savor Savour Smell Soothing Sweet Towns Turn WasteLeviticus 26 1. Of idolatry2. Reverence 3. A blessing to those who keep the commandments 14. A curse to those who break them 40. God promises to remember those who repent I will reduce your cities to ruins This phrase is a stark warning from God about the consequences of disobedience. The Hebrew word for "reduce" (שָׁמֵם, shamem) conveys a sense of desolation and astonishment. Historically, this reflects the fate of cities like Jerusalem when the Israelites turned away from God. The ruins serve as a physical manifestation of spiritual decay, reminding us that without God, even the mightiest cities can fall. and lay waste your sanctuaries and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aromas of your offerings And bring your sanctuaries unto desolation.--Even the sanctuary with all its holy places (Jeremiah 51:51; Ezekiel 21:7; Amos 7:9; Pss. 68:36, Psalm 74:7. &c.), sacred edifices, synagogues, &c. (Leviticus 21:23), will not be spared, God thus reversing the promise which He made to the Israelites, that He will set up His dwelling place in the midst of them (see Leviticus 26:11) if they will walk according to His commandments. . . . Hebrew I will reduceוְנָתַתִּ֤י (wə·nā·ṯat·tî) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular Strong's 5414: To give, put, set your cities עָֽרֵיכֶם֙ (‘ā·rê·ḵem) Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 5892: Excitement to rubble חָרְבָּ֔ה (ḥā·rə·bāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 2723: Waste, desolation, ruin and lay waste וַהֲשִׁמּוֹתִ֖י (wa·hă·šim·mō·w·ṯî) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular Strong's 8074: To stun, devastate, stupefy to your sanctuaries, מִקְדְּשֵׁיכֶ֑ם (miq·də·šê·ḵem) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 4720: A consecrated thing, place, a palace, sanctuary, asylum and I will refuse וְלֹ֣א (wə·lō) Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no to smell אָרִ֔יחַ (’ā·rî·aḥ) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - first person common singular Strong's 7306: Accept, smell, touch, make of quick understanding the pleasing נִיחֹֽחֲכֶֽם׃ (nî·ḥō·ḥă·ḵem) Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 5207: A quieting, soothing, tranquilizing aroma of your sacrifices. בְּרֵ֖יחַ (bə·rê·aḥ) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 7381: To smell, perceive odor Links Leviticus 26:31 NIVLeviticus 26:31 NLT Leviticus 26:31 ESV Leviticus 26:31 NASB Leviticus 26:31 KJV Leviticus 26:31 BibleApps.com Leviticus 26:31 Biblia Paralela Leviticus 26:31 Chinese Bible Leviticus 26:31 French Bible Leviticus 26:31 Catholic Bible OT Law: Leviticus 26:31 I will lay your cities waste (Le Lv Lev.) |
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