Leviticus 26:34-39

26:34 “‘Then the land will make up for ¹  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 ²  on your Sabbaths when you lived on it.

26:36 “‘As for ³  the ones who remain among you, I will bring despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a blowing leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one who flees the sword and fall down even though there is no pursuer. 26:37 They will stumble over each other as those who flee before a sword, though ⁴  there is no pursuer, and there will be no one to take a stand ⁵  for you before your enemies. 26:38 You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will consume you.

Restoration through Confession and Repentance

26:39 “‘As for the ones who remain among you, they will rot away because of ⁶  their iniquity in the lands of your enemies, and they will also rot away because of their ancestors’ ⁷  iniquities which are with them.

Deuteronomy 4:26-27

4:26 I invoke heaven and earth as witnesses against you ⁸  today that you will surely and swiftly be removed ⁹  from the very land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. You will not last long there because you will surely be ¹⁰  annihilated. 4:27 Then the Lord will scatter you among the peoples and there will be very few of you ¹¹  among the nations where the Lord will drive you.

Deuteronomy 28:36

28:36 The Lord will force you and your king ¹²  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 28:64-68

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. ¹³  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 29:2

The Exodus, Wandering, and Conquest Reviewed

29:2 Moses proclaimed to all Israel as follows: “You have seen all that the Lord did ¹⁴  in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, all his servants, and his land.

Deuteronomy 17:6

17:6 At the testimony of two or three witnesses they must be executed. They cannot be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.

Deuteronomy 17:18

17:18 When he sits on his royal throne he must make a copy of this law ¹⁵  on a scroll ¹⁶  given to him by the Levitical priests.

Deuteronomy 17:1

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.

Deuteronomy 25:1

25:1 If controversy arises between people, ¹⁹  they should go to court for judgment. When the judges ²⁰  hear the case, they shall exonerate ²¹  the innocent but condemn ²²  the guilty.

Daniel 9:7-14

9:7 “You are righteous, ²³  O Lord, but we are humiliated this day ²⁴  – the people ²⁵  of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far away in all the countries in which you have scattered them, because they have behaved unfaithfully toward you. 9:8 O LORD, we have been humiliated ²⁶  – our kings, our leaders, and our ancestors – because we have sinned against you. 9:9 Yet the Lord our God is compassionate and forgiving, ²⁷  even though we have rebelled against him. 9:10 We have not obeyed ²⁸  the LORD our God by living according to ²⁹  his laws ³⁰  that he set before us through his servants the prophets.

9:11 “All Israel has broken ³¹  your law and turned away by not obeying you. ³²  Therefore you have poured out on us the judgment solemnly threatened ³³  in the law of Moses the servant of God, for we have sinned against you. ³⁴  9:12 He has carried out his threats ³⁵  against us and our rulers ³⁶  who were over ³⁷  us by bringing great calamity on us – what has happened to Jerusalem has never been equaled under all heaven! 9:13 Just as it is written in the law of Moses, so all this calamity has come on us. Still we have not tried to pacify ³⁸  the LORD our God by turning back from our sin and by seeking wisdom ³⁹  from your reliable moral standards. ⁴⁰  9:14 The LORD was mindful of the calamity, and he brought it on us. For the LORD our God is just ⁴¹  in all he has done, ⁴²  and we have not obeyed him. ⁴³ 

Luke 21:24

21:24 They ⁴⁴  will fall by the edge ⁴⁵  of the sword and be led away as captives ⁴⁶  among all nations. Jerusalem ⁴⁷  will be trampled down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. ⁴⁸ 

[26:34]  ¹ 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]  ² tn Heb “it shall rest which it did not rest.”

[26:36]  ³ tn Heb “And.”

[26:37]  ⁴ tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) is used in a concessive sense here.

[26:37]  ⁵ tn The term rendered “to stand up” is a noun, not an infinitive. It occurs only here and appears to designate someone who would take a powerful stand for them against their enemies.

[26:39]  ⁶ tn Heb “in” (so KJV, ASV; also later in this verse).

[26:39]  ⁷ tn Heb “fathers’” (also in the following verse).

[4:26]  ⁸ 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]  ⁹ tn Or “be destroyed”; KJV “utterly perish”; NLT “will quickly disappear”; CEV “you won’t have long to live.”

[4:26]  ¹⁰ 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]  ¹¹ tn Heb “you will be left men (i.e., few) of number.”

[28:36]  ¹² tc The LXX reads the plural “kings.”

[28:66]  ¹³ tn Heb “you will not be confident in your life.” The phrase “from one day to the next” is implied by the following verse.

[29:2]  ¹⁴ tn The Hebrew text includes “to your eyes,” but this is redundant in English style (cf. the preceding “you have seen”) and is omitted in the translation.

[17:18]  ¹⁵ tn Or “instruction.” The LXX reads here τὸ δευτερονόμιον τοῦτο (to deuteronomion touto, “this second law”). From this Greek phrase the present name of the book, “Deuteronomy” or “second law” (i.e., the second giving of the law), is derived. However, the MT’s expression מִשְׁנֶה הַתּוֹרָה הַזֹּאת (mishneh hattorah hazzo’t) is better rendered “copy of this law.” Here the term תּוֹרָה (torah) probably refers only to the book of Deuteronomy and not to the whole Pentateuch.

[17:18]  ¹⁶ tn The Hebrew term סֵפֶר (sefer) means a “writing” or “document” and could be translated “book” (so KJV, ASV, TEV). However, since “book” carries the connotation of a modern bound book with pages (an obvious anachronism) it is preferable to render the Hebrew term “scroll” here and elsewhere.

[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.

[25:1]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “men.”

[25:1]  ²⁰ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the judges) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[25:1]  ²¹ tn Heb “declare to be just”; KJV, NASB “justify the righteous”; NAB, NIV “acquitting the innocent.”

[25:1]  ²² tn Heb “declare to be evil”; NIV “condemning the guilty (+ party NAB).”

[9:7]  ²³ tn Heb “to you (belongs) righteousness.”

[9:7]  ²⁴ tn Heb “and to us (belongs) shame of face like this day.”

[9:7]  ²⁵ tn Heb “men.”

[9:8]  ²⁶ tn Heb “to us (belongs) shame of face.”

[9:9]  ²⁷ tn Heb “to the Lord our God (belong) compassion and forgiveness.”

[9:10]  ²⁸ tn Heb “paid attention to the voice of,” which is an idiomatic expression for obedience (cf. NASB “nor have we obeyed the voice of”).

[9:10]  ²⁹ tn Heb “to walk in.”

[9:10]  ³⁰ tc The LXX and Vulgate have the singular.

[9:11]  ³¹ tn Or “transgressed.” The Hebrew verb has the primary sense of crossing a boundary, in this case, God’s law.

[9:11]  ³² tn Heb “by not paying attention to your voice.”

[9:11]  ³³ tn Heb “the curse and the oath which is written.” The term “curse” refers here to the judgments threatened in the Mosaic law (see Deut 28) for rebellion. The expression “the curse and the oath” is probably a hendiadys (cf. Num 5:21; Neh 10:29) referring to the fact that the covenant with its threatened judgments was ratified by solemn oath and made legally binding upon the covenant community.

[9:11]  ³⁴ tn Heb “him.”

[9:12]  ³⁵ tn Heb “he has fulfilled his word(s) which he spoke.”

[9:12]  ³⁶ tn Heb “our judges.”

[9:12]  ³⁷ tn Heb “who judged.”

[9:13]  ³⁸ tn Heb “we have not pacified the face of.”

[9:13]  ³⁹ tn Or “by gaining insight.”

[9:13]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “by your truth.” The Hebrew term does not refer here to abstract truth, however, but to the reliable moral guidance found in the covenant law. See vv 10-11.

[9:14]  ⁴¹ tn Or “righteous.”

[9:14]  ⁴² tn Heb “in all his deeds which he has done.”

[9:14]  ⁴³ tn Heb “we have not listened to his voice.”

[21:24]  ⁴⁴ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[21:24]  ⁴⁵ tn Grk “by the mouth of the sword” (an idiom for the edge of a sword).

[21:24]  ⁴⁶ 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]  ⁴⁷ tn Grk “And Jerusalem.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[21:24]  ⁴⁸ sn Until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled implies a time when Israel again has a central role in God’s plan.