Deuteronomy 29:14-29

New American Standard Bible 1995

¹⁴ “Now not with you alone am I ^(A)making this covenant and this oath, ^15 (B)but both with those who stand here with us today in the presence of the Lord our God and with those who are not with us here today ¹⁶ (for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed; ¹⁷ moreover, you have seen their abominations and their idols of ^(C)wood, stone, silver, and gold, which they had with them); ^18 (D)so that there will not be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations; that there will not be among you ^(E)a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood. ¹⁹ It shall be when he hears the words of this curse, that he will ^[a]boast, saying, ‘I have peace though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart in order ^[b]to destroy the watered land with the dry.’ ²⁰ The Lord shall never be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of the Lord and ^(F)His jealousy will ^[c](G)burn against that man, and every curse which is written in this book will ^[d]rest on him, and the Lord will ^(H)blot out his name from under heaven. ²¹ Then the Lord will single him out for ^[e]adversity from all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant ^(I)which are written in this book of the law.

²² “Now the generation to come, your sons who rise up after you and ^(J)the foreigner who comes from a distant land, when they see the plagues of the land and the diseases with which the Lord has ^[f]afflicted it, will say, ²³ ‘All its land is ^(K)brimstone and salt, ^(L)a burning waste, ^[g]unsown and unproductive, and no grass grows in it, like the overthrow of ^(M)Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and in His wrath.’ ²⁴ All the nations will say, ‘^(N)Why has the Lord done thus to this land? Why this great ^[h]outburst of anger?’ ²⁵ Then men will say, ‘^(O)Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt. ²⁶ They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they have not known and whom He had not ^[i]allotted to them. ²⁷ Therefore, the anger of the Lord burned against that land, ^(P)to bring upon it every curse which is written in this book; ²⁸ and ^(Q)the Lord uprooted them from their land in anger and in fury and in great wrath, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.’

²⁹ “^(R)The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but ^(S)the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may observe all the words of this law.