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38 You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will consume you.

Restoration through Confession and Repentance

39 “‘As for the ones who remain among you, they will rot away because of[a] their iniquity in the lands of your enemies, and they will also rot away because of their ancestors’[b] iniquities which are with them. 40 However, when[c] they confess their iniquity and their ancestors’ iniquities which they committed by trespassing against me,[d] by which they also walked[e] in hostility against me[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 26:39 tn Heb “in” (so KJV, ASV; also later in this verse).
  2. Leviticus 26:39 tn Heb “fathers’” (also in the following verse).
  3. Leviticus 26:40 tn Heb “And.” Many English versions take this to be a conditional clause (“if…”) though there is no conditional particle (see, e.g., NASB, NIV, NRSV; but see the very different rendering in B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 190). The temporal translation offered here (“when”) takes into account the particle אָז (ʾaz, “then”), which occurs twice in v. 41. The obvious contextual contrast between vv. 39 and 40 is expressed by “however” in the translation.
  4. Leviticus 26:40 tn Heb “in their trespassing which they trespassed in me.” See the note on Lev 5:15, although the term is used in a more technical sense there in relation to the “guilt offering.”
  5. Leviticus 26:40 tn Heb “and also which they walked.”
  6. Leviticus 26:40 tn Heb “with me.”