Sabbatic Year: Punishment to Follow Violation of the Ordinances Concerning

Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.

As long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it.

And I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled. …

Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, …