AND
it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing
and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt
call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath
driven thee,
2 And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt
obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy
children, with all thine heart, and with all thy
soul;
3 That
then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee,
and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God
hath scattered thee.
4 If any
of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts
of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will
he fetch thee:
5 And 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.
6 And the
LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the
heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine
heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
7 And the
LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine
enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.
8 And
thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and
do all his commandments which I command thee this day.
9 And the
LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine
hand, in the 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:
10 If
thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy
God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book
of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
11 For
this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from
thee, neither is it far off.
12 It is
not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go
up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
13 Neither
is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say,
Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto
us, that we may hear it, and do it?
14 But
the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that
thou mayest do it.
15 See,
I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
16 In
that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and
to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless
thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
17 But
if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear,
but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and
serve them;
18 I
denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye
shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan
to go to possess it.
19 I
call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set
before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that
both thou and thy seed may live:
20 That
thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that
thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the
length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the
land which the LORD sware
unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
