King James Version
Leviticus 26:38 in the King James Version says “And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.” — study this verse from Leviticus chapter 26 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.”
Leviticus 26:38 · KJV
And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth. shaken: Heb. driven
And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And ye shall perish”
H6properly, to wander away, i.e., lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
“among the heathen”
H1471a foreign nation; hence, a gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
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