40 ' If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their forefathers , in their unfaithfulness which they committed against Me, and also in their acting with hostility against Me- 41 I also was acting with hostility against them, to bring them into the land of their enemies - or if their uncircumcised heart becomes humbled so that they then make amends for their iniquity , 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 . 43 ' For the land will be abandoned by them, and will make up for its sabbaths while it is made desolate without them. They, meanwhile, will be making amends for their iniquity , because they rejected My ordinances and their soul abhorred My statutes . 44 'Yet in spite e of this , when they are in the land of their enemies , I will not reject them, nor will I so abhor them as to destroy them, breaking My covenant with them; for I am the Lord their God . 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 the Lord .' " 46 These are the statutes and ordinances and laws which the Lord established between Himself and the sons of Israel through Moses at Mount Sinai .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Leviticus 26:40-46
Commentary on Leviticus 26:40-46
(Read Leviticus 26:40-46)
Among the Israelites, persons were not always prosperous or afflicted according to their obedience or disobedience. But national prosperity was the effect of national obedience, and national judgments were brought on by national wickedness. Israel was under a peculiar covenant. National wickedness will end in the ruin of any people, especially where the word of God and the light of the gospel are enjoyed. Sooner or later, sin will be the ruin, as well as the reproach, of every people. Oh that, being humbled for our sins, we might avert the rising storm before it bursts upon us! God grant that we may, in this our day, consider the things which belong to our eternal peace.