Leviticus 26:38
Good News Translation
You will die in exile, swallowed up by the land of your enemies.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall devour you.

Contemporary English Version
Many of you will die in foreign lands,

New American Bible
You shall perish among the nations, swallowed up in your enemies’ country.

Douay-Rheims Bible
You shall perish among the Gentiles: and an enemy's land shall consume you.

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You shall perish among the Gentiles: and an enemy's land shall consume you.

Deuteronomy 4:27 And scatter you among all nations, and you shall remain a few among the nations, to which the Lord shall lead you.

Deuteronomy 28:48,68 Thou shalt serve thy enemy, whom the Lord will send upon thee, in hunger, and thirst, and nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put an iron yoke upon thy neck, till he consume thee. . . .

Isaiah 27:13 And it shall come to pass, that in that day a noise shall be made with a great trumpet, and they that were lost, shall come from the land of the Assyrians, and they that were outcasts in the land of Egypt, and they shall adore the Lord in the holy mount in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 42:17,18,22 And all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt, to dwell there, shall die by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence: none of them shall remain, nor escape from the face of the evil that I will bring upon them. . . .

Jeremiah 44:12-14,27,28 And I will take the remnant of Juda that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt, and to dwell there; and they shall be all consumed in the land of Egypt: they shall fall by the sword, and by the famine: and they shall be consumed from the least even to the greatest, by the sword, and by the famine shall they die: and they shall be for an execration, and for a wonder, and for a curse, and for a reproach. . . .

Context
Punishments for Disobedience
37And they shall every one fall upon their brethren as fleeing from wars: none of you shall dare to resist your enemies. 38You shall perish among the Gentiles: and an enemy's land shall consume you.39And if of them also some remain, they shall pine away in their iniquities, in the land of their enemies: and they shall be afflicted for the sins of their fathers, and their own.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:26
I call this day heaven and earth to witness, that you shall quickly perish out of the land, which, when you have passed over the Jordan, you shall possess. You shall not dwell therein long, but the Lord will destroy you,

Leviticus 26:39
And if of them also some remain, they shall pine away in their iniquities, in the land of their enemies: and they shall be afflicted for the sins of their fathers, and their own.

Leviticus 26:37
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