Leviticus 26:44 (LSB)

Passage

Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I so loathe them as to bring an end to them, breaking My covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God.

Nearby Context

Leviticus 26:42 then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and I will remember also My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham as well, and I will remember the land.

Leviticus 26:43 For the land will be forsaken by them and will make up for its sabbaths while it is made desolate without them. They, meanwhile, will be making up for their iniquity because they rejected My judgments and their soul loathed My statutes.

Leviticus 26:44 Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I so loathe them as to bring an end to them, breaking My covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God.

Leviticus 26:45 But I will remember for them the covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am Yahweh.’”

Leviticus 26:46 These are the statutes and judgments and laws which Yahweh has given to be between Himself and the sons of Israel by the hand of Moses at Mount Sinai.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "spite", "land", "enemies", "reject", "loathe", "bring", "breaking", and "covenant". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "spite" and "land", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 43's "For the land will be forsaken by..." into verse 45's "But I will remember for them the...", so "spite" 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 "spite" and "land" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.