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DEUTER ONOM Y 29
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everything. The Lord will put an iron yoke on
your neck, oppressing you harshly until he has
destroyed you.
49 “The Lord will bring a distant nation
against you from the end of the earth, and it
will swoop down on you like a vulture. It is
a nation whose language you do not understand, 50 a fierce and heartless nation that
shows no respect for the old and no pity for the
young. 51 Its armies will devour your livestock
and crops, and you will be destroyed. They
will leave you no grain, new wine, olive oil,
calves, or lambs, and you will starve to death.
52 They will attack your cities until all the fortified walls in your land—the walls you trusted
to protect you—are knocked down. They will
attack all the towns in the land the Lord your
God has given you.
53 “The siege and terrible distress of the enemy’s attack will be so severe that you will
eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters,
whom the Lord your God has given you. 54 The
most tenderhearted man among you will have
no compassion for his own brother, his beloved
wife, and his surviving children. 55 He will refuse
to share with them the flesh he is devouring—
the flesh of one of his own children—because
he has nothing else to eat during the siege and
terrible distress that your enemy will inflict on
all your towns. 56 The most tender and delicate
woman among you—so delicate she would not
so much as touch the ground with her foot—will
be selfish toward the husband she loves and toward her own son or daughter. 57 She will hide
from them the afterbirth and the new baby she
has borne, so that she herself can secretly eat
them. She will have nothing else to eat during
the siege and terrible distress that your enemy
will inflict on all your towns.
58 “If you refuse to obey all the words of instruction that are written in this book, and if
you do not fear the glorious and awesome name
of the Lord your God, 59 then the Lord will overwhelm you and your children with indescribable plagues. These plagues will be intense
and without relief, making you miserable and
unbearably sick. 60 He will afflict you with all
the diseases of Egypt that you feared so much,
and you will have no relief. 61 The Lord will afflict you with every sickness and plague there
is, even those not mentioned in this Book of Instruction, until you are destroyed. 62 Though you
become as numerous as the stars in the sky, few
of you will be left because you would not listen
to the Lord your God.
63 “Just as the Lord has found great pleasure in causing you to prosper and multiply,
the Lord will find pleasure in destroying you.
29:1a Verse 29:1 is numbered 28:69 in Hebrew text.
29:1b Hebrew Horeb, another name for Sinai. 29:2 Verses
29:2-29 are numbered 29:1-28 in Hebrew text.
You will be torn from the land you are about to
enter and occupy. 64 For the Lord will scatter
you among all the nations from one end of the
earth to the other. There you will worship foreign gods that neither you nor your ancestors
have known, gods made of wood and stone!
65 There among those nations you will find
no peace or place to rest. And the Lord will
cause your heart to tremble, your eyesight to
fail, and your soul to despair. 66 Your life will
constantly hang in the balance. You will live
night and day in fear, unsure if you will survive. 67 In the morning you will say, ‘If only it
were night!’ And in the evening you will say,
‘If only it were morning!’ For you will be terrified by the awful horrors you see around you.
68 Then the Lord will send you back to Egypt in
ships, to a destination I promised you would
never see again. There you will offer to sell
yourselves to your enemies as slaves, but no
one will buy you.”
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1*These
are the terms of the covenant
the Lord commanded Moses to make
with the Israelites while they were in the land of
Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made
with them at Mount Sinai.*
Moses Reviews the Covenant
2*Moses summoned all the Israelites and said
to them, “You have seen with your own eyes
everything the Lord did in the land of Egypt
to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to his
whole country—3 all the great tests of strength,
the miraculous signs, and the amazing wonders. 4 But to this day the Lord has not given
you minds that understand, nor eyes that see,
nor ears that hear! 5 For forty years I led you
through the wilderness, yet your clothes and
sandals did not wear out. 6 You ate no bread
and drank no wine or other alcoholic drink,
but he provided for you so you would know
that he is the Lord your God.
7 “When we came here, King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out to fight
against us, but we defeated them. 8 We took their
land and gave it to the tribes of Reuben and Gad
and to the half-tribe of Manasseh as their grant
of land.
9 “Therefore, obey the terms of this covenant
so that you will prosper in everything you do.
10 All of you—tribal leaders, elders, officers, all
the men of Israel—are standing today in the
presence of the Lord your God. 11 Your little ones
and your wives are with you, as well as the foreigners living among you who chop your wood
and carry your water. 12 You are standing here
today to enter into the covenant of the Lord your
God. The Lord is making this covenant, including the curses. 13 By entering into the covenant
today, he will establish you as his people and