Commentaire sur Le Lévitique 26:43

יען וביען BECAUSE AND BECAUSE [THEY REJECTED MY ORDINANCES] — i. e. it is a retribution — and a retribution, too, that they have rejected My ordinances.

And the Land shall lie forsaken without them.¹⁷⁷Verse 43. This means that even after the remembring [of the covenant and the Land] it shall lie forsaken without them, hinting that even after the decree of Cyrus¹⁷⁸II Chronicles 36:22-23. [granting the Jews in Babylon permission to return and rebuild the Temple], the Land will still lie forsaken without them and her Sabbatical years, until nineteen years¹⁷⁹See Rashi to Ezra 1:1. after the Temple was rebuilt; and then they sanctified the city [of Jerusalem] with two thanks-offerings,¹⁸⁰Nehemiah 12:40. See also Shevuoth 14 a. and the sanctity of the Land was restored,¹⁸¹See Note 131 in Seder Behar. and they made the covenant,¹⁸²Nehemiah 10:1. and declared [among other conditions] and that we would forego the Seventh year and the exaction of every debt.¹⁸³Ibid., Verse 32. I.e., they undertook to keep the Sabbatical laws with respect to cessation of agricultural work and cancellation of debts. All events that happened to them [at the beginning of their return to the Land after the Babylonian exile] are alluded to in this section.

והארץ תעזב מהם, on account of the destruction that took place.