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Leviticus 26:35-41 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

35. during all the time that it lies desolate, enjoying the rest that you would not let it have on your sabbaths when you lived there.

36. Those of you who survive in the lands of their enemies, I will make so fainthearted that the sound of a driven leaf will pursue them, and they shall run as if from the sword, and fall though no one pursues them;

37. stumbling over one another as if to escape a sword, while no one is after them—so helpless will you be to take a stand against your foes!

38. You shall perish among the nations, swallowed up in your enemies’ country.

39. Those of you who survive will waste away in the lands of their enemies, for their own and their ancestors’ guilt.

40. They will confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their ancestors in their treachery against me and in their continued hostility toward me,

41. so that I, too, had to be hostile to them and bring them into their enemies’ land. Then, when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they make amends for their iniquity,

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