15But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee. 16Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. 17Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough. 18Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the young of thy flock. 19Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out. 20The LORD will send upon thee cursing, discomfiture, and rebuke, hi all that thou puttest thy hand unto to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; be- cause of the evil of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken Me. ^The LORD will make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until He have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest in to possess it. ^The LORD will smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflamm*^ tion, and with fiery heat, and with drought, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish. ^And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron, ^he LORD will make :he rain of thy land powder and dust; from heaven shall it come down DEUTEBONOMY upon thee, until thou be destroyed, ^he LORD will cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies; thou shalt go out one way against them, and shalt flee seven ways beforejthem; and thou shalt be a horror unto all the kingdoms of the earth. 26And thy carcasses shall be food unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and there shall be none to frighten them away.
27The LORD will smite thee with the boil of Egypt, and with the emer- pds, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed. 28The LORD will smite thee with mad- ness, ^ and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart. 29And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not make thy ways prosperous; and thou shalt be only oppressed androbbed alway, and there shall be none to save thee. 30Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her; thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell therein; thou shalt plant a vineyard, and ^ shalt not use the fruit thereof. 81Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof; thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee; thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies; and thou shalt have none to save thee. ^Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day; and there shall be nought in the power of thy hand. ^The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway; ^o that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. 35The LORD will smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, whereof thou canst not be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the crown of thy head. '"The LORD will bring thee, and thy king whom thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation that thou hast not known, thou nor thy fathers; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone. 37And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples whither the LORD shall lead thee away.
88Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather httle in; for the locust shall consume it. 39Thou shalt plant vineyards and dress them, but thou shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worm shall eat them. 40Thou shalt have olive-trees throughout all thy borders, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olives shall drop off. flThou shalt beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be thine; for they shall go into captivity. ^All thy trees and the fruit of thy land shall the locust stranger that is in the midst of thee shall mount up above thee higher and higher; and thou shalt come down lower and lower. '"He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him; he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail. ^And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou didst not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep His com- mandments and His statutes which He commanded thee. ^And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever; 47because thou didst not serve the DEUTERONOMY LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things; ^there- fore shalt thou serve thine enemy whom the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things; and he snail put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee. 4^The LORD will bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as the vulture swoopeth down; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; 60a nation of fierce countenance, that shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favour to the young. 51And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, until thou be destroyed; that also shall^ not leave thee corn, wine, or oil, the increase of thy kine, or the young of thy flock, until he have caused thee to perish. 52And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fortified walls come down, wherein thou didst trust, throughout all thy land; and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates through- out all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee. _ MAnd thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters whom the LORD thy God hath given thee; in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall straiten thee. wThe man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil against his brother, and against the wife of his bosom, and against the remnant of his children whom he hath remaining; 5Sso that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he hath nothing left him; in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall straiten thee in all thy gates. 56The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for dehcateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil against the husband of her ^ bosom, and against her son, and against her daughter; 57and against her after- birth that cometh put from between her feet, and against her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly; in the siege and in the strait- ness, wherewith thine enemy shall straiten thee in thy gates.
68If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and awful Name, the LORD thy God; 59then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. 60And He will bring back upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast in dread of; and they shall cleave unto thee. 61Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed. ^And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou didst riot hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. MAnd it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and ye shall be plucked from/ off the land whither thou goest in to possess it. ^And the LORD shall scatter thee among all peoples, from the one end of the earth iven unto the other end of the earth; and there thou shalt serve other gods, DEUTERONOMY DEUTERONOMY which thou hast not known, thou nor thy fathers, even wood and stone. ^And among these nations shalt thou have no repose, and there shall be no rest for the sole of thy foot; but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and languishing of soul. ^And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear night and day, and shalt have no assurance of thy life. 67In the morning thou shalt say: 1 Would it were even!' and at even thou shalt say: 'Would it were morning!' for the fear of thy heart which thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. 68And the LORD shall bring thee back into Egypt in ships, by the way whereof I said unto thee: 'Thou shalt see it no more again'; and there ye shall sell yourselves unto your enemies for bondmen and for bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
69These are the words of the cove- nant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which He made with them in Horeb.
OQ And Moses called unto all ^ u Israel, and said unto them: Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land; Hhe great trials which thine eyes saw, the signs and those great wonders; 3but the LORD hath not given you a heart to know,, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, un- to this day. 4Aiid I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot. 5Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink; that ye might know that I am the LORD your God. 6And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them. 7And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites. 80bserve therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may make all that ye do to prosper.
9Ye are standing this day all of you before the LORD your God: your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel, 10your little ones^your wives, and thy stranger that is in the midst of thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water; nthat thou shouldest enter into the covenant of the LORD thy God— and into His oath — which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day; ^that He may establish thee this day unto Himself for a people, and that He may be unto thee a God, as He spoke unto thee, and as He swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. ^Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath; 14but with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day— I5for ye know how we dwelt in the land of >t; and how we came through the of the nations through which ye 1; 16and ye have seen their detestable things, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were with them — 17lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go to serve the gods of DEUTERONOMY those nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; 18and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying: ^ 'I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart — that the watered be swept away with the dry'; 19the LORD will not be willing to pardon him, but then the an^er of the LORD and His jealousy shall be kindled against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven; 20and the LORD shall separate him unto evil put of all the tribes of Israel, accord- ing to all the curses of the covenant that is, written in this book of the law. ^And the generation to come, your children that shall rise up after you, and the foreigner that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of^that land, and the sicknesses wherewith the LORD hath made it sick; ^and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His anger, and in His wrath; ^even all the nations shall say: 'Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?' ^hen men shall say: 'Be- cause they forsook the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them forth out of the land of Egypt; ^and went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods that they knew not, and that He had not allotted unto them; ^erefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book; 27and the LORD rooted them out of then* land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into an- other land, as it is this day'. — 28The secret things belong unto the LORD our God; but the things that are re- vealed belong unto us and to our chil- dren for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
0 A And it shall come to pass, when v all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which 1 have set before thee, and thou shalt bethink thyself among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee, 2and shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and hearken to His voice according to all that I com- mand thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul; Hhat then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the peoples, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee. 4If any of thine that are dispersed be in the uttermost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will He fetch thee. 6And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and He will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers. 6And the LORD thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. 7And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, that per- secuted thee. 8And thou shalt return and hearken to the voice of the LORD, and do all His commandments which DEUTERONOMY DEUTERONOMY I command thee this day. 9And the LORD thy God will make thee over- abundant in all the work of thy hand, in tjie fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good; for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as He rejoiced over thy fathers; 10if thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep His com- mandments and His statutes which are written in this book of the law* if thou turn unto the LORD thy Goa with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.
uFor this commandment which I command thee this day, it is -not too hard for thee, neither is it far off. ^It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say: ' Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?' ^Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou should- est say: 'Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?' 14But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
15See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil, 16in that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His command- ments and His statutes and His ordi- nances; then thou shalt live and multiply, and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest in to possess it. 17But if thy heart turn away, and thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; 18I declare unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish; ye shall not pro- long your days upon the land, whither thou passest over the Jordan to go in to possess it. 19I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse; therefore choose life, that thou may- est live, thou and thy seed; 20to love the LORD thy God, to hearken to His voice, and to cleave unto Him; for that is thy life, and the length of thy days; that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
0 1 And Moses went and spoke these x words unto all Israel. 2And he said unto them: ' I am a hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in; and the LORD hath said unto me: Thou shalt not go over this Jordan, ^he LORD thy God, He will go over before thee; He will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt dispossess them; and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath spoken. 4And the LORD will do unto them as He did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and unto their land; whom He destroyed. 5And the LORD will deliver them up before you, and ye shall do unto them according un- to all the commandment which I have commanded you. 6Be strong and of good courage, fear not, nor be affrighted at them; for the LORD thy God, He it is that doth go with thee; He will not fail thee, nor for- sake thee/ 7And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel: 'Be strong and of good courage; for thou shalt go with this people into the land which the LORD hafch sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it. 8And the LORD, He it is that doth DEUTERONOMY DEUTERONOMY go before thee; He will be with thee, He will not fail thee, neither forsake thee; fear not, neither be dismayed/ 9And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, that bore the ark of the cov- enant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel. 10And Moses com- manded them, saying: 'At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, uwhen all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which He shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 12Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LOBD your God, and ob- serve to do all the words of this law; 13and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your Godj as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over the Jordan to possess it.7 14And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Behold, thy days approach that thou must die; call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may give him a charge.' And Moses and Joshua went, and pre- sented themselves in the tent of meet- ing. 15And the LORD appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud; and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent. 16And the LORD said un- to Moses: ^ 'Behold, thou art about to sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go astray after the foreign gods of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake Me, and break My covenant which I have made with them. 17Then My anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide My face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come upon them; so that they.will say in that day: Are not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us? 18And I will surely hide My face in that day for all the evil which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods. 19Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach _ thou it the chil- dren of Israel; put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness' for Me against the children of Israel. 20For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore unto their fathers, flowing with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten their fill, and waxen fat; and turned unto other gods, and served them, and despised Me, and broken My covenant; 21then it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are come upon them, that this song shall testify before them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of then* seed; for J know their imagination how they do even now, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.' ^So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel. ^And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said: 'Be strong and of good courage; for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore unto them; and I will be with thee.'
wAnd it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until "they were finished, 25that Moses command- ed the Levites, that bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying: 26'Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the cov- enant of the LORD your God, that DEUTERONOMY it may be there for a witness against thee. 27For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck; behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death? 28As- semble unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call^ heaven and earth to witness against them. 29For I know that after my death ye will in any wise deal corruptly, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil- will befall you in the end of _ days ^because ye will do that which is evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him through the work of your hands.' 30And Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished: wan Give ear, ye heavens, and I will speak; And let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
2My doctrine shall drop as the rain, My speech vshall distil as the dew; As the small rain upon the tender grass, And as the showers upon the herb. 3For I will proclaim the name of the LORD; Ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
4The Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice; A God of faithfulness and without iniquity.
Just and right is He.
5Is corruption His? No; His chil- dren's is, the blemish; A generation crooked and perverse.
6Do ye thus requite the LORD, 0 foolish people and unwise?
Is not He thy father that hath got- ten thee?
Hath He not made thee, and estab- lished thee?
7Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many genera- tions; Ask thy father, and he will declare unto thee, Thine elders, and they will tell thee.
8When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, When He separated the children of men, He set the borders of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.
9For the portion of the LORD is His people, Jacob the lot of His inheritance.
10He found him in a desert land, And in the waste, a howling wil- derness; He compassed him about, He cared for him, He kept him as the apple of Has eye. llAs" an eagle that stirreth up her nest, Hovereth over her young, Spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, Beareth them on her pinions — 12The LORD alone did lead him, And there was no strange god with Him.
13He made him ride on the high places of the earth, And he did eat the fruitage of the field; And He made him to suck honrout of the crag, And oil out of the flinty rock; 14Curd of kine, and milk of sheen. With fat of lambs, DEUTERONOMY And rams of the breed of Bashan, and he-goats, With the kidney-fat of wheat; And of the blood of the grape thou drankest foaming wine.
"But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked — Thou didst wax fat, thou didst grow thick, thou didst become gross — And he forsook God who made him, And contemned the Rock of his salvation. l6They roused Him to jealousy with strange gods, With abominations did they pro- voke Him.
17They sacrificed unto demons, no- gods, Gods that they knew not, New gods that came up of late, Which your fathers dreaded not. 18Of the Rock that begot thee thou wast unmindful, And didst forget God that bore thee.
"And the LORD saw, and spurned, Because of the provoking of His sons and His daughters. 20And He said: 'I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end shall be; For they are a very froward genera- tion, Children in whom is no faithfulness. *They have roused Me to jealousy with a no-god; They have provoked Me with their vanities; And I will rouse them to jealousy with a no-people; I will provoke them with a vile nation.
^For a fire is kindled in My nostril, And burneth unto the depths of the nether-world,!
And devoureth the earth with her produce, And setteth ablaze the foundations of the mountains.
ffll will heap evils upon them; I will spend Mine arrows upon them; MThe wasting of hunger, and the de- vouring of the fiery bolt, And bitter destruction; And the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, With the venom of crawling things of the dust.
25Withput shall the sword bereave, And in the chambers terror; Slaying both young man and virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.
26I thought I would make an end of them, I would make their memory cease from among men; 27Were it not that I dreaded the enemy's provocation, Lest their adversaries should mis- deem, Lest they should say: Our hand is exalted, And not the LORD hath wrought all this.'
28For they are a nation void of counsel, And there is no understanding in them.
29If they were wise, they would un- derstand this, They would discern their latter end.
30How should one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Except their Rock had given them over, And the LORD had delivered them up? 81For their rock is not as our Rock, DEUTERONOMY Even our enemies themselves being ^For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, And of the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter; ^Their wine is the venom of serpents, And the cruel poison of asps.
^'Is not this laid up in store with Me, Sealed up in My treasuries? 35Vengeance is Mine, and recompense, Against the time when their foot shall slip; For the day of their calamity is at hand,