SEV Biblia, Chapter 26:36
Y a los que quedaren de vosotros infundiré en sus corazones tal cobardía, en la tierra de sus enemigos, que el sonido de una hoja movida los perseguirá, y huirán como de cuchillo, y caerán sin que nadie los persiga.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 36. And upon them that are left [alive] of you , etc.] In the land of Judea, or rather scattered about among the nations, suggesting that these would be comparatively few: I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies ; or “a softness” f917 ; so that they should be effeminate, pusillanimous, and cowardly, have nothing of a manly spirit and courage in them; but be mean spirited and faint hearted, as the Jews are noted to be at this day, as Bishop Patrick observes; who also adds, “it being scarce ever heard, that a Jew listed himself for a soldier, or engaged in the defence of his country where he lives:” and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them ; either the sound of a leaf that falls from the tree, as the Targum of Jonathan, or which the wind beats one against another, as Jarchi, which makes some little noise; even this should terrify them, taking it to be the noise of some enemy near at hand, just ready to fall on them; such poor faint hearted creatures should they be; and they shall flee as fleeing from the sword ; as if there were an army of soldiers with their swords drawn pursuing them: and they shall fall when none pursueth ; fall upon the ground, and into a fit, and drop down as if dead, as if they had been really wounded with a sword and slain, (see Proverbs 28:1).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 14-39 - After God has set the blessing before them which would make them happy people if they would be obedient, he here sets the curse befor them, the evils which would make them miserable, if they wer disobedient. Two things would bring ruin. 1. A contempt of God' commandments. They that reject the precept, will come at last to renounce the covenant. 2. A contempt of his corrections. If they wil not learn obedience by the things they suffer, God himself would be against them; and this is the root and cause of all their misery. An also, The whole creation would be at war with them. All God's sor judgments would be sent against them. The threatenings here are very particular, they were prophecies, and He that foresaw all their rebellions, knew they would prove so. TEMPORAL judgments ar threatened. Those who will not be parted from their sins by the commands of God, shall be parted from them by judgments. Those wedde to their lusts, will have enough of them. SPIRITUAL judgments ar threatened, which should seize the mind. They should find no acceptanc with God. A guilty conscience would be their continual terror. It is righteous with God to leave those to despair of pardon, who presume to sin; and it is owing to free grace, if we are not left to pine away is the iniquity we were born in, and have lived in.
Original Hebrew
והנשׁארים 7604 בכם והבאתי 935 מרך 4816 בלבבם 3824 בארצת 776 איביהם 341 ורדף 7291 אתם 853 קול 6963 עלה 5929 נדף 5086 ונסו 5127 מנסת 4499 חרב 2719 ונפלו 5307 ואין 369 רדף׃ 7291
