34-35. While you are prisoners in foreign lands, your own land will enjoy years of rest and refreshment, as it should have done each seventh year when you lived there.
36-37. In the land of your enemies, you will tremble at the rustle of a leaf, as though it were a sword. And you will become so weak that you will stumble and fall over each other, even when no one is chasing you.
38. Many of you will die in foreign lands,
39. and others of you will waste away in sorrow as the result of your sins and the sins of your ancestors.
40-41. Then suppose you realize that I turned against you and brought you to the land of your enemies because both you and your ancestors had stubbornly sinned against me. If you humbly confess what you have done and start living right,
42. I'll keep the promise I made to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will bless your land
43. and let it rest during the time that you are in a foreign country, paying for your rebellion against me and my laws.
44. No matter what you have done, I am still the Lord your God, and I will never completely reject you or become absolutely disgusted with you there in the land of your enemies.