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,
42. I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac; and also my covenant with Abraham I will remember. The land, too, I will remember.
43. The land will be forsaken by them, that in its desolation without them, it may make up its sabbaths, and that they, too, may make good the debt of their guilt for having spurned my decrees and loathed my statutes.
44. Yet even so, even while they are in their enemies’ land, I will not reject or loathe them to the point of wiping them out, thus making void my covenant with them; for I, the Lord, am their God.