CHAPTER 30
When
all
these
things
come
upon you—
the blessings
and curses
I have set
before you—
and you call them
to
mind
in all
the nations
to which
the LORD
your God
has banished you,
and when you
and your children
return
to
the LORD
your God
and obey
His voice
with all
your heart
and all
your soul
according to everything
I
am giving you today,
then He
will restore
you from captivity
and have compassion on you
and gather you
from all
the nations
to which
the LORD
your God
has scattered you.
Even if
you have been banished
to the ends
of the earth,
He
will gather you
and return you
from there.
And the LORD
your God
will bring you
into
the land
your fathers
possessed,
and you will take possession of it.
He will cause you to prosper
and multiply you
more than your fathers.
The LORD
your God
will circumcise
your hearts
and the hearts
of your descendants,
and you will love
Him
with all
your heart
and all
your soul,
so that
you may live.
Then the LORD
your God
will put
all
these
curses
upon
your enemies
who
hate you
and persecute you.
And you
will again
obey
the voice
of the LORD
and follow
all
His commandments
I
am giving you today.
So the LORD
your God
will make you abound
in all
the work
of your hands
and in the fruit
of your womb,
the offspring
of your livestock,
and the produce
of your land.
Indeed, the LORD
will again
delight
in
your prosperity,
as
He delighted
in
that of your fathers,
if
you obey
the LORD
your God
by keeping
His commandments
and statutes
that are written
in this
book
of the law,
and if
you turn
to
Him
with all
your heart
and all
your soul.
It
is not
in heaven,
that you would need to ask,
“Who
will ascend
into
heaven
to get it
for us
and proclaim
it,
that we may obey it?”
And it
is not
beyond
the sea,
that you would need to ask,
“Who
will cross
the sea
to get it
for us
and proclaim
it,
that we may obey it?”
For
I
am commanding
you today
to love
the LORD
your God,
to walk
in His ways,
and to keep
His commandments,
statutes,
and ordinances,
so that you may live
and increase,
and the LORD
your God
may bless
you in the land
you
are entering
to possess.
But if
your heart
turns away
and you do not
listen,
but are drawn away
to bow down
to other
gods
and worship them,
I declare
to you
today
that
you will surely perish;
you shall not prolong
your days
in
the land
you
are crossing
the Jordan
to possess.
I call heaven
and earth
as witnesses
against you
today
that I have set
before
you life
and death,
blessing
and cursing.
So choose
life,
so that
you
and your descendants
may live,
and that you may love
the LORD
your God,
obey Him,
and hold fast
to Him.
For
He is
your life,
and He will prolong
your life
in
the land
the LORD
swore
to give
to your fathers,
Abraham,
Isaac,
and Jacob.