Leviticus 26:31
29 You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.
30 I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.
I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.
32 And I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled.
33 But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.
- KJV
- And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
- WEB
- I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation. I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.
- ASV
- And I will make your cities a waste, and will bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors.
- DARBY
- And I will lay waste your cities and desolate your sanctuaries; and I will not smell your sweet odours.
- BLB
- And I will lay waste your⁺ cities and bring to desolation your⁺ sanctuaries, and I will not smell your⁺ pleasing. aromas
- ÅB
- Og jeg vil gjøre deres byer til en ørken og legge deres helligdommer øde, og jeg vil ikke nyte vellukten av deres offer.
- OTB
- Jeg vil legge deres byer øde og gjøre deres helligdommer øde, og jeg vil ikke glede meg over den behagelige duften av deres offer.
- B1930
- Og jeg vil gjøre eders byer til en ørken og legge eders helligdommer øde, og jeg vil ikke nyte vellukten av eders offer.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Nehemiah 2:3
and replied to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should I not be sad when the city where my fathers are buried lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”
Read in contextPsalms 74:3–8
Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed.
Read in contextHebrews 10:26
If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,
Read in contextGenesis 8:21
When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.
Read in contextLamentations 2:7
The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast.
Read in context2 Kings 25:4–10
Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,
Read in contextJeremiah 4:7
A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited.
Read in contextIsaiah 1:11–14
“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.
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