Charles Ellicott Commentary Leviticus 26:38

"And ye shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up." — Leviticus 26:38 (ASV)

And you shall perish among the heathen. —Better, And you shall be lost among the heathen, as the word here rendered “perish” is often translated. (1 Samuel 9:3; 1 Samuel 9:20; Jeremiah 1:6; Ezekiel 34:4; Ezekiel 34:16; Psalms 119:176, and others.) The context plainly shows that utter destruction is not meant here. The very next verse speaks of a remnant who are to pine away, while Leviticus 26:40 speaks of their confessing their guilt.

The land of your enemies shall eat you up. —That is, they shall be so completely mixed up with the heathen nations among whom they are to be dispersed, and so utterly incorporated among them, that they will disappear, and have no separate existence. This is the sense of this peculiar phrase in Numbers 13:32; Ezekiel 36:13.