Kapłańska 26:43 Komentarz: Rashi, Kli Yakar, Ramban & Sforno

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.

For the land shall be forsaken of them and it shall appease its sabbaths. Because initially it [the land] was demanding justice for its humiliation and the nullification of its sabbatical years, and after judgment was executed upon the sinners, then the land will be forsaken of them and will no longer complain about the nullification of its sabbaths, and it shall appease means it will be appeased in the matter.

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.