Levítico 26:43

43 "Porque la tierra será abandonada por ellos, y gozará de sus días de reposo mientras quede desolada con su ausencia. Entretanto, ellos pagarán su iniquidad, porque despreciaron mis ordenanzas y su alma aborreció mis estatutos.

Levítico 26:43 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 26:43

The land also shall be left of them
This seems to refer to a second time, when this should be the case of the land of Judea again, as it was when subdued by the Romans, and the Jews were carried captive from it, and so it was left by them, as it has been ever since:

and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while lieth desolate without them;
shall be as in the sabbatical years, uncultivated, neither ploughed nor sown, nor reaped; and thus the land of Canaan, though once so very fruitful, is now desolate and barren, being without its former inhabitants, and so it is like to be until it is restored to them again;

and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity;
that is, when made sensible of their sins, and particularly of their iniquity of rejecting the Messiah; they will not think it hard that they have been punished in so severe a manner, but own the righteous hand of God in it, and be humble under it; and confessing their sins with true sorrow and repentance for them, looking at him whom they have pierced, and mourn, shall have the free and full remission of their sins applied unto them:

because, even, because they despised my judgments, and because their
soul abhorred my statutes;
despised and abhorred Christ, his doctrines and ordinances, which was the reason of their being carried captive out of their land, when it was forsaken by them, and lay desolate as to this day, especially with respect to any benefit of it enjoyed by them; and which, when they are sensible of, will be a reason of their accepting the punishment of their iniquity so readily, and not murmur at the hand of God upon them, or reflect on his dealings with them, but freely and fully confess their sins, that he may be justified in all that he has done.

Levítico 26:43 In-Context

41 (yo también procedía con hostilidad contra ellos para llevarlos a la tierra de sus enemigos), o si su corazón incircunciso se humilla, y reconocen sus iniquidades,

42 entonces yo me acordaré de mi pacto con Jacob, me acordaré también de mi pacto con Isaac y de mi pacto con Abraham, y me acordaré de la tierra.

43 "Porque la tierra será abandonada por ellos, y gozará de sus días de reposo mientras quede desolada con su ausencia. Entretanto, ellos pagarán su iniquidad, porque despreciaron mis ordenanzas y su alma aborreció mis estatutos.

44 "Sin embargo, a pesar de esto, cuando estén en la tierra de sus enemigos no los desecharé ni los aborreceré tanto como para destruirlos, quebrantando mi pacto con ellos, porque yo soy el SEÑOR su Dios,

45 sino que por ellos me acordaré del pacto con sus antepasados, que yo saqué de la tierra de Egipto a la vista de las naciones, para ser su Dios. Yo soy el SEÑOR."