Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you. New Living Translation You will die among the foreign nations and be devoured in the land of your enemies. English Standard Version And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. Berean Standard Bible You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you. King James Bible And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. New King James Version You shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. New American Standard Bible Instead, you will perish among the nations, and your enemies’ land will consume you. NASB 1995 ‘But you will perish among the nations, and your enemies’ land will consume you. NASB 1977 ‘But you will perish among the nations, and your enemies’ land will consume you. Legacy Standard Bible But you will perish among the nations, and your enemies’ land will consume you. Amplified Bible You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will consume you. Christian Standard Bible You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you. Holman Christian Standard Bible You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you. American Standard Version And ye shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. Contemporary English Version Many of you will die in foreign lands, English Revised Version And ye shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. GOD'S WORD® Translation They will be destroyed among the nations. The land of their enemies will devour them. Good News Translation You will die in exile, swallowed up by the land of your enemies. International Standard Version You'll perish among the nations and the land of your enemies will consume you. Majority Standard Bible You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you. NET Bible You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will consume you. New Heart English Bible You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will eat you up. Webster's Bible Translation And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. World English Bible You will perish among the nations. The land of your enemies will eat you up. Literal Translations Literal Standard Versionand you have perished among the nations, and the land of your enemies has consumed you. Young's Literal Translation and ye have perished among the nations, and the land of your enemies hath consumed you. Smith's Literal Translation And ye were destroyed in the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleYou shall perish among the Gentiles, and an enemy's land shall consume you. Catholic Public Domain Version You will perish among the Gentiles, and the land of the enemy will consume you. New American Bible You shall perish among the nations, swallowed up in your enemies’ country. New Revised Standard Version You shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall devour you. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleAnd you shall perish among the Gentiles, and the land of your enemies shall devour you. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And you shall be destroyed among the nations and the land of your enemies shall consume you. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917And ye shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. Brenton Septuagint Translation And ye shall perish among the Gentiles, and the land of your enemies shall devour you. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Punishments for Disobedience…37They will stumble over one another as before the sword, though no one is behind them. So you will not be able to stand against your enemies. 38You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you. 39Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.… Cross References Deuteronomy 28:64-67 Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known. / Among those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul. / So your life will hang in doubt before you, and you will be afraid night and day, never certain of survival. ... Ezekiel 5:12 A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them. Jeremiah 9:16 I will scatter them among the nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.” Ezekiel 6:8-10 Yet I will leave a remnant, for some of you will escape the sword when you are scattered among the nations and throughout the lands. / Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations. / And they will know that I am the LORD; I did not declare in vain that I would bring this calamity upon them. Deuteronomy 4:27 Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you. Jeremiah 44:27 I am watching over them for harm and not for good, and every man of Judah who is in the land of Egypt will meet his end by sword or famine, until they are finished off. Ezekiel 20:23 However, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands. Nehemiah 1:8-9 Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses when You said, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations, / but if you return to Me and keep and practice My commandments, then even if your exiles have been banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for My Name.’ Ezekiel 12:15-16 And they will know that I am the LORD, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them throughout the countries. / But I will spare a few of them from sword and famine and plague, so that in the nations to which they go, they can recount all their abominations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.” Deuteronomy 32:26 I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind, Ezekiel 22:15 I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you throughout the lands; I will purge your uncleanness. Jeremiah 30:11 For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have scattered you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.” Isaiah 1:7 Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers. Ezekiel 36:19 I dispersed them among the nations, and they were scattered throughout the lands. I judged them according to their ways and deeds. Jeremiah 15:4 I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah did in Jerusalem. Treasury of Scripture And you shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. Deuteronomy 4:27 And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you. Deuteronomy 28:48,68 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee… Isaiah 27:13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem. Jump to Previous Consume Consumed Death Destruction Devour Eat Enemies Haters Heathen Nations Overtake Perished Strange YouJump to Next Consume Consumed Death Destruction Devour Eat Enemies Haters Heathen Nations Overtake Perished Strange YouLeviticus 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 You will perish The Hebrew root for "perish" is אָבַד (avad), which conveys a sense of being lost, destroyed, or coming to an end. In the context of Leviticus, this word underscores the severe consequences of disobedience to God's covenant. Historically, this reflects the fate of the Israelites during periods of exile, such as the Babylonian captivity, where they faced destruction and loss due to their unfaithfulness. From a spiritual perspective, this serves as a sobering reminder of the importance of remaining faithful to God's commands to avoid spiritual ruin. among the nations and the land of your enemies will consume you Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew You will perishוַאֲבַדְתֶּ֖ם (wa·’ă·ḇaḏ·tem) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural Strong's 6: To wander away, lose oneself, to perish among the nations, בַּגּוֹיִ֑ם (bag·gō·w·yim) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 1471: A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts and the land אֶ֖רֶץ (’e·reṣ) Noun - feminine singular construct Strong's 776: Earth, land of your enemies אֹיְבֵיכֶֽם׃ (’ō·yə·ḇê·ḵem) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 341: Hating, an adversary will consume וְאָכְלָ֣ה (wə·’ā·ḵə·lāh) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 398: To eat you. אֶתְכֶ֔ם (’eṯ·ḵem) Direct object marker | second person masculine plural Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case Links Leviticus 26:38 NIVLeviticus 26:38 NLT Leviticus 26:38 ESV Leviticus 26:38 NASB Leviticus 26:38 KJV Leviticus 26:38 BibleApps.com Leviticus 26:38 Biblia Paralela Leviticus 26:38 Chinese Bible Leviticus 26:38 French Bible Leviticus 26:38 Catholic Bible OT Law: Leviticus 26:38 You will perish among the nations (Le Lv Lev.) |