John Calvin Commentary Leviticus 26:9

"And I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you." — Leviticus 26:9 (ASV)

For I will have respect to you.²¹¹ God is said to “turn Himself” to the people whom He undertakes to cherish and preserve, just as when He forsakes those who have alienated themselves from Him, He is said to be turned away from them.

Hence, the common exhortation in the Prophets, Be you turned to me, and I will be turned to you; by which God reminds us that He has not promised in vain what we read here.

Therefore, the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous to confirm His covenant toward them by watching for their safety. Hence, too, we are also taught that when we depart from God, His covenant is made void by our own fault, with which Jeremiah reproaches the Israelites (Jeremiah 31:32).

Therefore, in order that God’s covenant should remain firm and effectual, it is not only necessary that the Law should be engraved on our hearts, but also that He should add another grace and not remember our iniquities.

When He says, You shall eat old store, He again magnifies their abundance. For, whereas scarcity compels us to make immediate use of the new fruits, so it is a great sign of abundance to bring forth old wheat from the granary and old wine from the cellar.

The continuation of His bounty is represented in the end of the verse, where He says that there will be no place for the new fruits unless they empty their storehouses; because²¹² it might happen that, after a year of scarcity, all their storehouses would be empty, and there would be no new grain to take the place of the old.

²¹¹ Literally, “I will turn myself to you.”

²¹² This last sentence omitted in Fr..