Leviticus 26:32-41

32I will make your land so deserted that your enemies will be shocked as they settle in it.

33I will scatter you among the nations. War will follow you. Your country will be in ruins. Your cities will be deserted.

34“Then the land will enjoy its time ⌞to honor the Lord⌟ while it lies deserted and you are in your enemies’ land. Then the land will joyfully celebrate its time ⌞to honor the Lord⌟.

35All the days it lies deserted, it will celebrate the time ⌞to honor the Lord⌟ it never celebrated while you lived there.

36I will fill with despair those who are left in the land of their enemies. The sound of a windblown leaf will make them run. They will run away and fall, but no one will be chasing them.

37They will stumble over each other, but no one will be after them. They will not be able to stand up to their enemies.

38They will be destroyed among the nations. The land of their enemies will devour them.

39Those who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins and the sins of their ancestors.

40“But if they confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors—the treacherous things they did to oppose me—

41I will oppose them and bring them into the lands of their enemies. Then, if they humble their uncircumcised hearts and accept their guilt,