Leviticus 26:35

Translations

King James Version (KJV)

As long as it lies desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when you dwelled on it.

American King James Version (AKJV)

As long as it lies desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when you dwelled on it.

American Standard Version (ASV)

As long as it lieth desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it had not in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

Basic English Translation (BBE)

All the days while it is waste will the land have rest, such rest as it never had in your Sabbaths, when you were living in it.

Webster's Revision

As long as it lieth desolate, it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

World English Bible

As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn't have in your sabbaths, when you lived on it.

English Revised Version (ERV)

As long as it lieth desolate it shall have rest; even the rest which it had not in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

Barnes's Leviticus 26:35 Bible Commentary

More literally: All the days of its desolation shall it rest that time which it rested not in your Sabbaths while ye dwelt upon it. That is, the periods of rest of which the land had been deprived would be made up to it. Compare 2 Chronicles 36:20-21.