29
24 All
the nations will ask: “Why has the Lord done
this to this land? Why this fierce, burning anger?”
25 And
the answer will be: “It is because this people abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors,
the covenant he made with them when he brought them out of Egypt. 26 They went off and worshiped other gods and bowed down to them,
gods they did not know, gods he had not given them. 27 Therefore the Lord’s
anger burned against this land, so that he brought on it all the curses written
in this book. 28 In furious anger and in great wrath the Lord uprooted them from their
land and thrust them into another land, as it is now.”
29 The
secret things belong to the Lord our
God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever,
that we may follow all the words of this law.
Prosperity After Turning to the Lord
30
When all these blessings
and curses I have set before you come on you and you take them to heart
wherever the Lord your God
disperses you among the nations, 2 and
when you and your children return to the Lord your God and obey him with all your heart and
with all your soul according to everything I command you today, 3 then the Lord your
God will restore your fortunes[c] and have compassion on you and gather you again
from all the nations where he scattered you.4 Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the
heavens, from there the Lord your
God will gatheryou and bring you back. 5 He will bring you to the land that belonged to your
ancestors, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous
and numerous than your ancestors. 6 The Lord your
God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so
that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and
live. 7 The Lord your
God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you. 8 You will again obey the Lord and
follow all his commands I am giving you today. 9 Then the Lord your
God will make you most prosperous in all the work of your hands and in the
fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your land. The Lord will again delight in you
and make you prosperous, just as he delighted in your ancestors, 10 if you obey the Lord your
God and keep his commands and decrees that are written in this Book of the Law and
turn to the Lord your
God with all your heart and with all your soul.
The Offer of Life or Death
11 Now what I am commanding you today is not too
difficult for you or beyond your reach. 12 It is not up in heaven,
so that you have to ask, “Who will ascend into heaven to get it and
proclaim it to us so we may obey it?” 13 Nor is it beyond the
sea, so that you have to ask, “Who will cross the sea to get it and
proclaim it to us so we may obey it?” 14 No, the word is very
near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it.
15 See,
I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. 16 For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience
to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and
increase, and the Lord your
God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.
17 But
if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to
bow down to other gods and worship them, 18 I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You
will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.
19 This
day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have
set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so
that you and your children may live 20 and
that you may love the Lord your
God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life, and he will
give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers,
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
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