Leviticus 26:25

26:25 I will bring on you an avenging sword, a covenant vengeance. Although you will gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you and you will be given into enemy hands.

Leviticus 26:33

26:33 I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.


tn Heb “vengeance of covenant”; cf. NAB “the avenger of my covenant.”

tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) has a concessive force in this context.

tn Heb “in hand of enemy,” but Tg. Ps.-J. and Tg. Neof. have “in the hands of your enemies” (J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 454).

tn Heb “and I will empty sword” (see HALOT 1228 s.v. ריק 3).