Leviticus 26:32

KJV1611 – Modern English

And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַהֲשִׁמֹּתִ֥י אֲנִ֖י אֶת־הָאָ֑רֶץ וְשָֽׁמְמ֤וּ עָלֶ֙יהָ֙ אֹֽיְבֵיכֶ֔ם הַיֹּשְׁבִ֖ים בָּֽהּ׃

Transliteration

And wa-hăšimmōṯî I ʾănî ʾet-hā-ʾāreṣ and wə-šāmməmû upon her ʿālêhā ʾōyəḇêḵem ha-yōšəḇîm in her bāh.

Grammar Details

• *wa-hăšimmōṯî*: conjunction + Hiphil perfect 1st person singular - and I will make desolate
• *ʾănî*: 1st person singular independent pronoun - I
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *hā-ʾāreṣ*: definite article + feminine singular noun - the land
• *wə-šāmməmû*: conjunction + Qal perfect 3rd person common plural - and they will be astonished
• *ʿālêhā*: preposition with 3rd person feminine singular suffix - upon it
• *ʾōyəḇêḵem*: masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your enemies
• *ha-yōšəḇîm*: definite article + Qal participle masculine plural - the ones dwelling
• *bāh*: preposition with 3rd person feminine singular suffix - in it

Word Meanings

• *hăšimmōṯî*: make desolate/lay waste
• *ʾāreṣ*: land/earth/ground
• *šāmməmû*: be astonished/appalled/desolate
• *ʾōyəḇêḵem*: your enemies/foes/adversaries
• *yōšəḇîm*: dwelling/living/sitting

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  I will bring the land to desolation so that even your enemies who live there will be appalled by it.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And I will bring{H8074} the land{H776} into desolation;{H8074} and your enemies{H341} that dwell{H3427} therein shall be astonished{H8074} at it.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And I will bring{H8074} the land{H776} into desolation{H8074}{(H8689)}: and your enemies{H341}{(H8802)} which dwell{H3427}{(H8802)} therein shall be astonished{H8074}{(H8804)} at it.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  And I will bringe the londe vnto a wildernesse: so that youre enemyes which dwell therein shall wondre at it.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Thus wyll I make the londe desolate, so that youre enemies shall dwell therin, and make it waist:

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  I will also bring the land vnto a wildernes, and your enemies, which dwell therein, shalbe astonished thereat.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  I wyll bryng the lande vnto a wildernesse, and your enemies which dwell therin shall wonder at it.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein will be astonished at it.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and I have made desolate the land, and your enemies, who are dwelling in it, have been astonished at it.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein shall be astonished at it.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein shall be astonished at it.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And I will make your land a waste, a wonder to your haters living in it.

• World English Bible (2000)

  I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein will be astonished at it.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  I myself will make the land desolate and your enemies who live in it will be appalled.

Referenced Verses

• Jer 9:11 : 11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
• Jer 18:16 : 16 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; everyone that passes by shall be astonished, and shake his head.
• Jer 19:8 : 8 And I will make this city desolate, and an object of scorn; everyone who passes by it shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.
• Jer 25:11 : 11 And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
• Jer 25:18 : 18 To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and its kings, and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;
• 1 Kgs 9:8 : 8 And at this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why has the LORD done this to this land and to this house?
• Ezek 5:15 : 15 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment to the nations that are around you, when I shall execute judgments in you in anger and in fury and in fierce rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.
• Deut 28:37 : 37 And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations where the LORD shall lead you.
• Deut 29:23-28 : 23 And that the whole land is brimstone, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger and in his wrath: 24 Even all nations shall say, Why has the LORD done thus to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean? 25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: 26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given to them: 27 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book: 28 And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
• Ezek 33:28-29 : 28 For I will make the land most desolate, and the pride of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that no one shall pass through. 29 Then they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have made the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed.
• Dan 9:2 : 2 In the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the books the number of the years, as spoken by the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
• Dan 9:18 : 18 O my God, incline Your ear, and hear; open Your eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by Your name: for we do not present our supplications before You for our righteousness, but for Your great mercies.
• Hab 3:17 : 17 Though the fig tree shall not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no food; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls.
• Luke 21:20 : 20 And when you shall see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is near.
• Isa 1:7-8 : 7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. 8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
• Isa 5:6 : 6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor dug; but briers and thorns shall come up: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
• Isa 5:9 : 9 In my ears said the LORD of hosts, Truly many houses shall be desolate, even great and beautiful, without inhabitant.
• Isa 6:11 : 11 Then I said, Lord, how long? And He answered, Until the cities are laid waste without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land is utterly desolate,
• Isa 24:1 : 1 Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty and makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters abroad its inhabitants.
• Isa 32:13-14 : 13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yes, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: 14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the bustle of the city shall be abandoned; the forts and towers shall become dens forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;
• Isa 64:10 : 10 Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
• Jer 25:38 : 38 He has forsaken His shelter, like a lion; for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of His fierce anger.
• Jer 44:2 : 2 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; You have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no one lives there,
• Jer 44:22 : 22 So that the LORD could no longer bear it, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed; therefore your land is a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.
• Lam 4:12 : 12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy could enter the gates of Jerusalem.
• Lam 5:18 : 18 Because of Mount Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.