Leviticus 26:32-34

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 ¹  after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.

26:34 “‘Then the land will make up for ²  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.

Leviticus 26:43

26:43 The land will be abandoned by them ³  in order that it may make up for ⁴  its Sabbaths while it is made desolate ⁵  without them, ⁶  and they will make up for their iniquity because ⁷  they have rejected my regulations and have abhorred ⁸  my statutes.

Deuteronomy 4:26-27

4:26 I invoke heaven and earth as witnesses against you ⁹  today that you will surely and swiftly be removed ¹⁰  from the very land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. You will not last long there because you will surely be ¹¹  annihilated. 4:27 Then the Lord will scatter you among the peoples and there will be very few of you ¹²  among the nations where the Lord will drive you.

Deuteronomy 28:36

28:36 The Lord will force you and your king ¹³  whom you will appoint over you to go away to a people whom you and your ancestors have not known, and you will serve other gods of wood and stone there.

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 ¹⁴  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. ¹⁵  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 29:24-28

29:24 Then all the nations will ask, “Why has the Lord done all this to this land? What is this fierce, heated display of anger ¹⁶  all about?” 29:25 Then people will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. 29:26 They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods they did not know and that he did not permit them to worship. ¹⁷  29:27 That is why the Lord’s anger erupted against this land, bringing on it all the curses ¹⁸  written in this scroll. 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.”

Joshua 23:15-16

23:15 But in the same way every faithful promise the Lord your God made to you has been realized, ¹⁹  it is just as certain, if you disobey, that the Lord will bring on you every judgment ²⁰  until he destroys you from this good land which the Lord your God gave you. 23:16 If you violate the covenantal laws of the Lord your God which he commanded you to keep, ²¹  and follow, worship, and bow down to other gods, ²²  the Lord will be very angry with you and you will disappear ²³  quickly from the good land which he gave to you.”

[26:33]  ¹ tn Heb “and I will empty sword” (see HALOT 1228 s.v. ריק 3).

[26:34]  ² 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).

[26:43]  ³ tn Heb “from them.” The preposition “from” refers here to the agent of the action (J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 455).

[26:43]  ⁴ tn The jussive form of the verb with the simple vav (ו) here calls for a translation that expresses purpose.

[26:43]  ⁵ tn The verb is the Hophal infinitive construct with the third feminine singular suffix (GKC 182 §67.y; cf. v. 34).

[26:43]  ⁶ tn Heb “from them.”

[26:43]  ⁷ tn Heb “because and in because,” a double expression, which is used only here and in Ezek 13:10 (without the vav) for emphasis (GKC 492 §158.b).

[26:43]  ⁸ tn Heb “and their soul has abhorred.”

[4:26]  ⁹ 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]  ¹⁰ tn Or “be destroyed”; KJV “utterly perish”; NLT “will quickly disappear”; CEV “you won’t have long to live.”

[4:26]  ¹¹ 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.

[4:27]  ¹² tn Heb “you will be left men (i.e., few) of number.”

[28:36]  ¹³ tc The LXX reads the plural “kings.”

[28:63]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 28:8.

[28:66]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “you will not be confident in your life.” The phrase “from one day to the next” is implied by the following verse.

[29:24]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “this great burning of anger”; KJV “the heat of this great anger.”

[29:26]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “did not assign to them”; NASB, NRSV “had not allotted to them.”

[29:27]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “the entire curse.”

[23:15]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and it will be as every good word which the Lord your God spoke to you has come to pass.”

[23:15]  ²⁰ tn Heb “so the Lord will bring every injurious [or “evil”] word [or “thing”] upon you.”

[23:16]  ²¹ tn Heb “when you violate the covenant of the Lord your God which he commanded you.”

[23:16]  ²² tn Heb “and you walk and serve other gods and bow down to them.”

[23:16]  ²³ tn Or “perish.”