Leviticus 26:31-35

26:31 I will lay your cities waste ¹  and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will refuse to smell your soothing aromas. 26:32 I myself will make the land desolate and your enemies who live in it will be appalled. 26:33 I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword ²  after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.

26:34 “‘Then the land will make up for ³  its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate while you are in the land of your enemies; then the land will rest and make up its Sabbaths. 26:35 All the days of the desolation it will have the rest it did not have ⁴  on your Sabbaths when you lived on it.

Deuteronomy 4:26

4:26 I invoke heaven and earth as witnesses against you ⁵  today that you will surely and swiftly be removed ⁶  from the very land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. You will not last long there because you will surely be ⁷  annihilated.

Deuteronomy 28:63-68

28:63 This is what will happen: Just as the Lord delighted to do good for you and make you numerous, he ⁸  will take delight in destroying and decimating you. You will be uprooted from the land you are about to possess. 28:64 The Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of wood and stone. 28:65 Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the Lord will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair. 28:66 Your life will hang in doubt before you; you will be terrified by night and day and will have no certainty of surviving from one day to the next. ⁹  28:67 In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ And in the evening you will say, ‘I wish it were morning!’ because of the things you will fear and the things you will see. 28:68 Then the Lord will make you return to Egypt by ship, over a route I said to you that you would never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”

Deuteronomy 29:28

29:28 So the Lord has uprooted them from their land in anger, wrath, and great rage and has deported them to another land, as is clear today.”

Deuteronomy 30:18

30:18 I declare to you this very day that you will certainly ¹⁰  perish! You will not extend your time in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess. ¹¹ 

Deuteronomy 30:2

30:2 Then if you and your descendants ¹²  turn to the Lord your God and obey him with your whole mind and being ¹³  just as ¹⁴  I am commanding you today,

Deuteronomy 17:1

17:1 You must not sacrifice to him ¹⁵  a bull or sheep that has a blemish or any other defect, because that is considered offensive ¹⁶  to the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 17:1-2

17:1 You must not sacrifice to him ¹⁷  a bull or sheep that has a blemish or any other defect, because that is considered offensive ¹⁸  to the Lord your God. 17:2 Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you – in one of your villages ¹⁹  that the Lord your God is giving you – who sins before the Lord your God ²⁰  and breaks his covenant

Deuteronomy 25:1

25:1 If controversy arises between people, ²¹  they should go to court for judgment. When the judges ²²  hear the case, they shall exonerate ²³  the innocent but condemn ²⁴  the guilty.

Deuteronomy 25:1

25:1 If controversy arises between people, ²⁵  they should go to court for judgment. When the judges ²⁶  hear the case, they shall exonerate ²⁷  the innocent but condemn ²⁸  the guilty.

Luke 21:24

21:24 They ²⁹  will fall by the edge ³⁰  of the sword and be led away as captives ³¹  among all nations. Jerusalem ³²  will be trampled down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. ³³ 

[26:31]  ¹ tn Heb “And I will give your cities a waste”; NLT “make your cities desolate.”

[26:33]  ² tn Heb “and I will empty sword” (see HALOT 1228 s.v. ריק 3).

[26:34]  ³ tn There are two Hebrew roots רָצָה (ratsah), one meaning “to be pleased with; to take pleasure” (HALOT 1280-81 s.v. רצה; cf. “enjoy” in NASB, NIV, NRSV, and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 452), and the other meaning “to restore” (HALOT 1281-82 s.v. II רצה; cf. NAB “retrieve” and B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 189).

[26:35]  ⁴ tn Heb “it shall rest which it did not rest.”

[4:26]  ⁵ sn I invoke heaven and earth as witnesses against you. This stock formula introduces what is known form-critically as a רִיב (riv) or controversy pattern. It is commonly used in the ancient Near Eastern world in legal contexts and in the OT as a forensic or judicial device to draw attention to Israel’s violation of the Lord’s covenant with them (see Deut 30:19; Isa 1:2; 3:13; Jer 2:9). Since court proceedings required the testimony of witnesses, the Lord here summons heaven and earth (that is, all creation) to testify to his faithfulness, Israel’s disobedience, and the threat of judgment.

[4:26]  ⁶ tn Or “be destroyed”; KJV “utterly perish”; NLT “will quickly disappear”; CEV “you won’t have long to live.”

[4:26]  ⁷ tn Or “be completely” (so NCV, TEV). It is not certain here if the infinitive absolute indicates the certainty of the following action (cf. NIV) or its degree.

[28:63]  ⁸ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 28:8.

[28:66]  ⁹ tn Heb “you will not be confident in your life.” The phrase “from one day to the next” is implied by the following verse.

[30:18]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “certainly.”

[30:18]  ¹¹ tn Heb “to go there to possess it.”

[30:2]  ¹² tn Heb “sons” (so NASB); KJV, ASV, NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT “children.”

[30:2]  ¹³ tn Or “heart and soul” (also in vv. 6, 10).

[30:2]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “according to all.”

[17:1]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “to the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 16:1.

[17:1]  ¹⁶ tn The Hebrew word תּוֹעֵבָה (to’evah, “an abomination”; cf. NAB) describes persons, things, or practices offensive to ritual or moral order. See M. Grisanti, NIDOTTE 4:314-18; see also the note on the word “abhorrent” in Deut 7:25.

[17:1]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “to the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 16:1.

[17:1]  ¹⁸ tn The Hebrew word תּוֹעֵבָה (to’evah, “an abomination”; cf. NAB) describes persons, things, or practices offensive to ritual or moral order. See M. Grisanti, NIDOTTE 4:314-18; see also the note on the word “abhorrent” in Deut 7:25.

[17:2]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “gates.”

[17:2]  ²⁰ tn Heb “does the evil in the eyes of the Lord your God.”

[25:1]  ²¹ tn Heb “men.”

[25:1]  ²² tn Heb “they”; the referent (the judges) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[25:1]  ²³ tn Heb “declare to be just”; KJV, NASB “justify the righteous”; NAB, NIV “acquitting the innocent.”

[25:1]  ²⁴ tn Heb “declare to be evil”; NIV “condemning the guilty (+ party NAB).”

[25:1]  ²⁵ tn Heb “men.”

[25:1]  ²⁶ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the judges) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[25:1]  ²⁷ tn Heb “declare to be just”; KJV, NASB “justify the righteous”; NAB, NIV “acquitting the innocent.”

[25:1]  ²⁸ tn Heb “declare to be evil”; NIV “condemning the guilty (+ party NAB).”

[21:24]  ²⁹ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[21:24]  ³⁰ tn Grk “by the mouth of the sword” (an idiom for the edge of a sword).

[21:24]  ³¹ sn Here is the predicted judgment against the nation until the time of Gentile rule has passed: Its people will be led away as captives.

[21:24]  ³² tn Grk “And Jerusalem.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[21:24]  ³³ sn Until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled implies a time when Israel again has a central role in God’s plan.