Leviticus 26:32 (LSB)

Passage

And I will make the land desolate, so that your enemies who inhabit it will themselves feel desolate because of it.

Nearby Context

Leviticus 26:30 I then will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and give your corpses to lie on the corpses of your idols, for My soul shall loathe you.

Leviticus 26:31 And I will give your cities over as a waste and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your soothing aromas.

Leviticus 26:32 And I will make the land desolate, so that your enemies who inhabit it will themselves feel desolate because of it.

Leviticus 26:33 You, however, I will scatter among the nations and will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become waste.

Leviticus 26:34 ‘Then the land will make up for its sabbaths all the days of the desolation, and you will be in your enemies’ land; then the land will rest and make up for its sabbaths.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "make", "land", "desolate", "enemies", "inhabit", "themselves", and "feel". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "make" and "land", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 31's "And I will give your cities over..." into verse 33's "You however I will scatter among the...", so "make" and "land" belong inside that flow. In Leviticus context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "make" and "land" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.