35. All the days it lies deserted, it will celebrate the time ⌊to honor the Lord⌋ it never celebrated while you lived there.
36. I 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.
37. They will stumble over each other, but no one will be after them. They will not be able to stand up to their enemies.
38. They will be destroyed among the nations. The land of their enemies will devour them.
39. Those 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—
41. I will oppose them and bring them into the lands of their enemies. Then, if they humble their uncircumcised hearts and accept their guilt,
42. I will remember my promise to Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham. I will also remember the land.
43. The land, abandoned by them, will enjoy its time to honor the Lord while it lies deserted without them. They must accept their guilt because they rejected my rules and looked at my laws with disgust.
44. Even when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or look at them with disgust. I will not reject or cancel my promise to them, because I am the Lord their God.
45. But for their sake, I will remember the promise to their ancestors. I brought them out of Egypt to be their God while nations looked on. I am the Lord.”
46. These are the laws, rules, and instructions that the Lord gave to the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai.