Leviticus 26:31

31 I will turn your cities into ruins and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings.

Leviticus 26:31 in Other Translations

KJV
31 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
ESV
31 And I will lay your cities waste and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing aromas.
NLT
31 I will make your cities desolate and destroy your places of pagan worship. I will take no pleasure in your offerings that should be a pleasing aroma to me.
MSG
31 I'll turn your cities into rubble; I'll clean out your sanctuaries; I'll hold my nose at the "pleasing aroma" of your sacrifices.
CSB
31 I will reduce your cities to ruins and devastate your sanctuaries. I will not smell the pleasing aroma of your [sacrifices].

Leviticus 26:31 In-Context

29 You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.
30 I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I will abhor you.
31 I will turn your cities into ruins and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings.
32 I myself will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who live there will be appalled.
33 I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste, and your cities will lie in ruins.

Cross References 4

  • 1. Nehemiah 1:3; Isaiah 1:7; Isaiah 3:8,26; Isaiah 6:11; Isaiah 24:12; Isaiah 61:4; Jeremiah 4:7; Jeremiah 9:11; Jeremiah 25:11; Jeremiah 34:22; Jeremiah 44:2,6,22; Ezekiel 36:33; Micah 2:4; Micah 3:12; Zephaniah 2:5; Zephaniah 3:6
  • 2. 2 Kings 22:19
  • 3. Psalms 74:3-7; Isaiah 63:18; Isaiah 64:11; Lamentations 2:7; Ezekiel 24:21; Amos 7:9
  • 4. Amos 5:21,22; Amos 8:10
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