Leviticus 26:31

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

I will lay your cities in ruins, make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will no longer smell the pleasing aroma of your offerings.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְנָתַתִּ֤י אֶת־עָֽרֵיכֶם֙ חָרְבָּ֔ה וַהֲשִׁמּוֹתִ֖י אֶת־מִקְדְּשֵׁיכֶ֑ם וְלֹ֣א אָרִ֔יחַ בְּרֵ֖יחַ נִיחֹֽחֲכֶֽם׃

Transliteration

And wə-nāṯattî ʾet-ʿārêḵem ḥorḇâ and wa-hăšimmôṯî ʾet-miqdəšêḵem and wə-lōʾ ʾārîaḥ in bə-rêaḥ nîḥōḥăḵem.

Grammar Details

• *wə-nāṯattî*: conjunction + Qal perfect 1st person singular - and I will make
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *ʿārêḵem*: feminine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your cities
• *ḥorḇâ*: feminine singular noun - waste/desolation
• *wa-hăšimmôṯî*: conjunction + Hiphil perfect 1st person singular - and I will make desolate
• *miqdəšêḵem*: masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your sanctuaries
• *wə-lōʾ*: conjunction + negative particle - and not
• *ʾārîaḥ*: Hiphil imperfect 1st person singular - I will smell
• *bə-rêaḥ*: preposition + masculine singular construct - in odor of
• *nîḥōḥăḵem*: masculine singular noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your pleasing (offerings)

Word Meanings

• *nāṯattî*: give/make/set
• *ʿārêḵem*: your cities/towns
• *ḥorḇâ*: waste/ruin/desolation
• *hăšimmôṯî*: make desolate/lay waste
• *miqdəšêḵem*: your sanctuaries/holy places
• *ʾārîaḥ*: smell/perceive odor
• *rêaḥ*: odor/scent/smell
• *nîḥōḥăḵem*: your pleasant/sweet/pleasing (offerings)

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the savor of your sweet aromas.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And I will make{H5414} your cities{H5892} a waste,{H2723} and will bring{H8074} your sanctuaries{H4720} unto desolation,{H8074} and I will not smell{H7306} the savor{H7381} of your sweet odors.{H5207}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And I will make{H5414}{(H8804)} your cities{H5892} waste{H2723}, and bring{H8074} your sanctuaries{H4720} unto desolation{H8074}{(H8689)}, and I will not smell{H7306}{(H8686)} the savour{H7381} of your sweet odours{H5207}.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  And I will make youre cities desolate, and bringe youre sanctuaries vnto nought, and will not smell the sauoures of youre swete odoures.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  And youre cities wyll I make waist, and brynge youre churches to naught, and wyll not smell youre swete odoures.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And I will make your cities desolate, and bring your Sanctuarie vnto nought, and will not smell the sauour of your sweete odours.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And I wyll make your cities desolate, and bring your sanctuarie vnto naught, and wyll not smell the sauour of your sweete odours.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not take delight in the sweet fragrence of your offerings.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and I have made your cities a waste, and have made desolate your sanctuaries, and I smell not at your sweet fragrances;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  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.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  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.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And I will make your towns waste and send destruction on your holy places; I will take no pleasure in the smell of your sweet perfumes;

• World English Bible (2000)

  I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  I will lay your cities waste and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will refuse to smell your soothing aromas.

Referenced Verses

• Neh 2:3 : 3 But I said to the king, "May the king live forever! Why should my face not be sad when the city where my ancestors are buried lies in ruins and its gates have been destroyed by fire?"
• 2 Kgs 25:4-9 : 4 Then the city wall was breached, and all the warriors fled at night through the gate between the two walls near the king's garden, even though the Chaldeans were surrounding the city. They escaped toward the Arabah. 5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his troops scattered away from him. 6 They captured the king and brought him to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where they passed judgment on him. 7 The sons of Zedekiah were slaughtered before his eyes, and then his eyes were blinded. They bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon. 8 On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. 9 He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every large house was burned down. 10 The entire Chaldean army, under the captain of the guard, tore down the walls of Jerusalem that surrounded the city.
• Isa 1:11-14 : 11 "What is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me?" says the LORD. "I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed animals; I take no pleasure in the blood of bulls, lambs, or goats. 12 When you come to appear before Me, who has asked this of you, this trampling of My courts? 13 Do not bring any more meaningless offerings; your incense is detestable to Me. New Moons, Sabbaths, and the calling of assemblies—I cannot endure iniquity combined with solemn assembly. 14 Your New Moons and appointed festivals My soul hates. They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.
• Jer 4:7 : 7 A lion has come out of his thicket, a destroyer of nations has set out; he has left his place to turn your land into a waste. Your cities will be ruined, without inhabitants.
• Ezek 9:6 : 6 Old men, young men, virgins, children, and women—kill them all to the point of destruction. But do not go near anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.' So they began with the elders who were in front of the temple.
• Amos 5:21-23 : 21 I hate, I despise your festivals, and I take no pleasure in your solemn assemblies. 22 Even if you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; I will not regard your fattened peace offerings. 23 Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the melody of your harps.
• Lam 1:10 : 10 The enemy has laid hands on all her treasures; she saw nations enter her sanctuary—those you had forbidden to enter your assembly.
• Lam 2:7 : 7 The Lord has rejected his altar and disowned his sanctuary. He has delivered into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces. They raised their voices in the house of the LORD as on a day of appointed festival.
• Heb 10:26 : 26 For if we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left,
• Gen 8:21 : 21 The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in His heart, "Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. Nor will I ever again destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
• Ezek 6:6 : 6 Wherever you dwell, your cities will become ruins, and your high places will be desolate. Your altars will be demolished and abandoned, your idols broken and destroyed, your incense altars cut down, and your works wiped out.
• Mic 3:12 : 12 Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the temple will become a high place overgrown with thickets.
• Matt 24:1-2 : 1 As Jesus was leaving the temple and walking away, his disciples came to him to show him the temple buildings. 2 Jesus said to them, 'Do you see all these things? Truly, I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.'
• Luke 21:5-6 : 5 Some people were speaking about the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and offerings, and he said, 6 ‘As for these things you see, days are coming when not one stone will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.’
• Luke 21:24 : 24 They will fall by the edge of the sword and be taken as captives to all nations. Jerusalem will be trampled by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
• Acts 6:14 : 14 For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs Moses handed down to us.
• Ezek 21:7 : 7 Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, preach against the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel.
• Ezek 21:15 : 15 sharpened to slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! Should we rejoice in the scepter of My son, which despises every tree?'
• Ezek 24:21 : 21 Say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the Lord God says: Behold, I am about to profane my sanctuary—the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the desire of your soul. Your sons and daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword.’
• Jer 9:11 : 11 Who is the wise person who may understand this? And to whom has the mouth of the Lord spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished, been scorched like a desert with no one passing through?
• Jer 22:5 : 5 But if you will not listen to these words, I swear by Myself—declares the LORD—that this palace will become a ruin.
• Jer 26:6 : 6 then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city an object of cursing among all the nations on earth.'
• Jer 26:9 : 9 'Why have you prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, “This house will become like Shiloh, and this city will be desolate, without inhabitants”?' And all the people crowded around Jeremiah in the LORD's house.
• Jer 52:13 : 13 He set fire to the house of the LORD, the royal palace, all the houses of Jerusalem, and every significant building in the city.
• Lam 1:1 : 1 How lonely sits the city, once so full of people! She has become like a widow, great among the nations, a princess among the provinces, now a slave.
• Isa 24:10-12 : 10 The city of chaos is shattered; every house is shut up so no one may enter. 11 In the streets, there is an outcry over the wine; all joy turns dark, and the gladness of the earth departs. 12 Only desolation is left in the city; the gate is battered into ruins.
• Isa 66:3 : 3 The one who slaughters an ox is like one who kills a man; the one who sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; the one who offers a grain offering is like one who offers pig’s blood; the one who offers incense is like one who blesses an idol. They have chosen their own ways and their souls delight in their abominations.
• 2 Chr 36:19 : 19 They burned the house of God, tore down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire, destroying all its valuable articles.
• Neh 2:17 : 17 Then I said to them, "You see the trouble we are in: Jerusalem is in ruins, and its gates have been burned by fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we will no longer be a disgrace."
• Ps 74:3-8 : 3 Lift up Your steps toward the perpetual ruins; the enemy has done all this evil in the sanctuary. 4 Your adversaries have roared in the midst of Your assembly place; they have set up their signs as signs. 5 It appeared like one lifting up axes against a thick forest. 6 Now they smash all its carved work together with hatchets and hammers. 7 They set Your sanctuary on fire; they profaned the dwelling place of Your name, bringing it to the ground. 8 They said in their hearts, 'Let us completely subdue them!' They burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
• Isa 1:7 : 7 Your land is desolate, your cities are burned with fire; in your presence, foreigners devour your fields. It is desolate, as if overthrown by strangers.