“And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.”
King James Version (KJV)
26:37 When none pursueth - Your guilt and fear causing you to imagine that they do pursue when indeed they do not.
26:39 Pine away - Be consumed and melt away by degrees through diseases, oppressions, griefs, and manifold miseries.
26:40 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they have trespassed against me - That is, with their prevarication with me and defection from me to idolatry, which by way of eminency he calls their trespass: and that also they have walked contrary to me, #Lev 26:41|, and that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies - That is, that they are not come into these calamities by chance, nor by the misfortune of war, but by my just judgment upon them. And, if then their uncircumcised, that is, impure, carnal, profane, and impenitent hearts be humbled, that is, subdued, purged, reformed: if to this confession they add sincere humiliation and reformation, I will do what follows.