Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Leviticus 26:39 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 39. 39And 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.
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Quick Meaning
This verse describes survivors wasting away under their own and ancestral iniquities.
The last waves reach siege horror and ruined worship
This verse is one part of that explanation in Leviticus 26:27-39. The complete section carries the connected meaning and how it should shape life.
Read It With
- Leviticus 26:27-39
Track the movement across 26:27-39. When Leviticus 26:39 describes survivors wasting away under their own and ancestral iniquities, it contributes to this complete claim: The final escalations include cannibalism under siege, destroyed worship sites, desolated land, fearful exile, and people wasting in enemy lands for their own and ancestral iniquity.
What Remains True
Describes survivors wasting away under their own and ancestral iniquities. Within Leviticus 26:27-39, this contributes to the larger claim that the final escalations include cannibalism under siege, destroyed worship sites, desolated land, fearful exile, and people wasting in enemy lands for their own and ancestral iniquity.
How It Can Shape Life
- When teaching Leviticus 26:39, keep the verse inside Leviticus 26:27-39. Hold this boundary: Siege victims and descendants must not be blamed, and graphic judgment language never authorizes creating such suffering. Apply only the noncoercive truth the complete unit supports.
Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read Leviticus 26:27-39 — Further resistance culminates in siege horror, sanctuary ruin, exile, and wastingSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Leviticus 26:27-39, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Leviticus
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, ritual and legal vocabulary, names, clause relationships, KJV language controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Lev.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 26:27-39
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Leviticus with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
eBible.org distribution of the NET Bible, PDF generated 2025-12-31
Supports: Unit-bounded translator notes on Hebrew, syntax, ritual vocabulary, measures, textual questions, and older-English wording; silence is not treated as evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible Leviticus PDF, complete PDF pp. 1-99, translation and translator notes for 26:27-39
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