Leviticus 26:34-46

³⁴At least then the land will be able to enjoy its Sabbaths all the time it's abandoned while you are in exile in the land of your enemies. The land will finally be able to rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.

³⁵The whole time it's abandoned the land will observe the Sabbaths of rest that it wasn't able to do while you were living there.

³⁶I will make those of you who survive so discouraged that as you live in the lands of your enemies even the sound of a leaf blowing in the wind will scare you into running away! You'll run away like you're being chased by someone with a sword, and fall down even though no one is after you.

³⁷You'll trip over each other as you run away from the attack, then though no one's there. You'll have no power to resist your enemies.

³⁸You'll die in exile and you'll be buried in a foreign country.

³⁹Those of you who do manage to survive in the countries of your enemies will wither away because of their guilt, decaying as they share the sins of their fathers.

⁴⁰They need to confess their sins and those of their fathers, acting in such an unfaithful way towards me, opposing me.

⁴¹Because of this I took action against them and exiled them in the countries of their enemies. However, if they humbly give up their stubborn attitude and accept their punishment for their sins,

⁴²then I will fulfill the agreement I made with Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham, and I will not forget my promise about the land.

⁴³For the land will be left empty by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths being abandoned. They will pay for their sins, because they rejected my rules and regulations.

⁴⁴But despite all this, even while they are living in land of their enemies, I will not reject or hate them so much as to destroy them and break my agreement with them, because I am the Lord their God.

⁴⁵Because of them I will renew the agreement I made with their fathers, those I led out of Egypt as the other nations watched, in order that I might be their God. I am the Lord.”

⁴⁶These are the rules, regulations, and laws that the Lord set up between himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai.