Charles Ellicott Commentary Leviticus 26:33

"And you will I scatter among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste." — Leviticus 26:33 (ASV)

And I will scatter you among the heathen. — They will not even be permitted to remain among the ruins of their favored places, but God Himself, who brings about the desolation, will disperse the surviving inhabitants far and wide.

And will draw out a sword after you. — To show how complete this dispersion is to be, God is represented with a drawn sword in His hand, pursuing them and scattering them, so that both their land and every city in it would be emptied of them, and that there would be no possibility of any of them turning back. Thus, the sword which God promised would not go through their land if they walked according to the divine commandments, will now be wielded by Himself to bring about their utter dispersion from the land. A similar appalling scene is described by Jeremiah: “I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them” (Jeremiah 9:16; compare with Jeremiah 42:16-18 and Ezekiel 12:14).