shall say, Because 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; 26 and went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not 1 given unto them: 27 therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book: 28 and the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and 'cast them into another land, as at this day. 29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God but the things that are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law. 1 And mit shall come to 30 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 Preturn 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 2turn 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. 4 If any of thine outcasts be in the uttermost 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 command ments which I command thee this day. 9" And the LORD thy God w ch. 28. 11. will make thee plenteous in all the work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, for good: 'for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers: 10 if thou shalt obey the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. II For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not too hard for 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, and make us to hear it, that we may 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, and make us to hear it, that we may do it? 14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. Cp. Isai. 45. 19 Cp. 29,30 & Rom. 10. Baruch 3. 6-8. Cp.ch. 11. 32.47. 26 a ver. 6. See ch. 6. 5. 26. 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 judgements, that thou mayest live and multiply, and that the LORD thy God may bless thee in the land whither thou goest in to pos sess it. 17 But if thine heart turn & ch. 29. 18. away, and thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; 18I See ch. 4. denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish; ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go in to possess it. 19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing d ver. 1. and the curse: therefore choose 2 Esd. 7. life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed: 20 to love the LORD thy God, to obey his voice, and to cleave unto him: for 4 he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD Sware unto thy 3 Or, wonderful 4 Or, that 59. ƒ See ch. 10. 20 P. 27.1 John 11.25. & 66. 9. Cp. ch. 3. or h Sec ch. i eh. 34. 7. j See Num. meh. 1. 38 & 3. 28. Num. 27. 18, 21. * See ch. 2. 31-35 21-25. & Num. 21. See eh. 3. Num. 21. 1-7 33-35. p See ch. 7.2. fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and I And Moses went and 13 and that their children, which deh. 11. 2. have not known, may hear, and e Ps. 78, 5, 6, learn to fear the LORD your God, 31 spake these words unto all as long as ye live in the land Israel. 2 And he said unto them, I am an 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. 3 The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee; he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath spoken. 4 And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and unto their land; whom he destroyed. 5 And the LORD shall deliver them up before you, and ye shall do unto them Paccording unto all the commandment which I have commanded you. 69 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be 1 Chr.22.13 affrighted at them: "for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forCp. ch. 3. sake thee. 7 And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt go with this people into the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it. 8 And the LORD, "he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: "fear not, neither be dismayed. q ver. 23. Josh 1.6,7 & 10, 25. & 23.20. r See ch. 90.4. Josh. 1. 5. # See Ex. 13.21. r ch. 1. 21 Cp. ch. 17. 18. r Num. 4. 15. Josh. 3. 3 & 8.33. 1 Chr. 15. 1.5. * See eh. 15. 1. z See Lev. 23. 34. ch. 16. 16. x 9 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel. 10 And Moses commanded them, saying, "At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, 11 when all Israel is come to appear before the 14, LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their See Neh. 8. hearing. 12 Assemble 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 LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law; 17 &34.23. Josh. 8.34, ? Kin. 23. 2. 1-1 c ch. 4. 10. 14 And 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 presented themselves in the tent of meeting. 15 And the Ex. 33. 9. LORD appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud: and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent. 16 And the LORD said unto Moses, "Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the Ex. 34. 15, strange 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. 17 Then 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 ch. 2. 20. troubles shall come upon them; so that they will say in that day, "Are not these evils come upon us because Pour God is not among us? 18 And 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. 19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach thou it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel. 20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, "flowing with See Ex. milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and "waxen fat; then will they ch. 32. 15. turn unto other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and 'break my covenant. 21 And 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 their seed: for * I know their imagination which Cp. Hos. they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware. 22 So Moses wrote a Cp. ver. DEUTERONOMY. this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel. 23" And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a b See ver. 6. charge, and said, "Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee. c ver. 8. Josh. 1. 5 & 3. 7. d ver. 9. 22.8. с 24 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of d writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, 25 that e See ver. 9. Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying, 26 Take this ƒ Cp. 2 Kin. book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be g ver. 19, 21. there for a witness against thee. 27 For 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? 28 Assemble 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. 29 For I know that after my death 'ye will utterly corrupt Judg. 2. 19. yourselves, and turn aside from A See ch. 9.6. i See ch. 9.7. j See ch. 32. 1-43. A See ch. 4. 26. 7 ch. 32. 5 (mg.). Hos. 9. 9. m Cp. Jer. 44.23. n See Gen. 49. 1. the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you "in the latter days; because ye will do that which is evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands. 30 And Moses spake in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished. 32 I Give ear, "ye heavens, and And let the earth hear the 2 My doctrine shall drop as the My speech shall distil as the dew; As the small rain upon the ten der grass, And as the showers upon the herb: 3 For I will proclaim the name of 4 the LORD: t Ascribe ye greatness unto our "The Rock, "his work is perfect; 1 Or, corrupted themselves, they &c. And in the waste howling wil- He compassed him about, he He kept him as the apple of II 'As an eagle that stirreth up her nest, That fluttereth over her young, He bare them on his pinions: 12 m The LORD 13 him, Jer. 2. 6. alone did lead m Ps. 78. And there was no strange god with him. 52, 53. n Isai. 43. 12. He made him ride on the high och. 33. 29. places of the earth, And he did eat the increase of the field; Isai. 58. 14. And he made him to suck "honeyp Ps. 81. 16. out of the rock, 4 Or, Spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her pinions 2 Or, but a blot upon them 3 Or, possessed Or, gotten 206 from them, I will see what their end shall be: "Oh that they were wise, that For they are a very froward gen- 30 How should one chase a thou- Children in whom is no faith. 21 "They have moved me to jeal- They have provoked me to anger I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. 22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And burneth unto 'the lowest And devoureth the earth with 1 Or, bare 2 Heb. Sheol. sand, And two put ten thousand to x Pa. 81. 13. v Isai. 47. 7. Lam. 1. 9. Except their Rock had sold See Judg. them, And the LORD had delivered them up? 31 For their rock is not as our "Even our enemies themselves 32 For their vine "is of the vine of And of the fields of Gomor- Their grapes are grapes of Their clusters are bitter : 3 Heb. burning coals. See Hab. 3. 5. 2. 14. DEUTERONOMY. 33 Their wine is the poison of And the cruel venom of casps. e Sealed up among my trea- 35 Vengeance is mine, and recom- 36 At the time when their foot For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things that are to come And repent himself for his ser- When he seeth that their power their gods, Where are they 'The rock in which 2 trusted; And drank the wine of their Let them rise up and help you, & 48. 12. n1 Sam. 2.6. 2 Kin. 5. 7. Cp. Tobit 13. 2 & Wisdom 16. 13. o Job 5. 18. Hos. 6. 1. p See Gen. 14. 22. q Pe. 7. 12. Isai. 27. 1 & 34.5 & 66. 16. Ezek. 21. 9, 10. r Jer. 46. 10. • Cp. Ps. 68. 21 (for mg.). t Judg. 5. 2. u Cited Rom. 15. 10. I have wounded, and I heal: And there is none that can deliver out of my hand. 40 For PI lift up my hand to hea ven, And say, As I live for ever, 41 If I whet my glittering sword, And mine hand take hold on judgement; I will render vengeance to mine adversaries, And will recompense them that hate me. 42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, And my sword shall devour flesh; With the blood of the slain and the captives, 4 From 58 the head of the leaders 6 u of the enemy. 43 Rejoice, O 7ye nations, with his people: 1 Or, in my treasuries 44 And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and " Hoshea the Num. 13. son of Nun. to all Israel: 46 and he said unto 45 And Moses made an end of speaking all these words them, Set your heart unto all ch. 11. 18. the words which I testify unto your children, to observe to do all 4.9. this day; which ye shall command y See ch. the words of this law. 47 For it is no vain thing for you; because it z ye shall prolong your days upon is your life, and through this thing dan to possess it. the land, whither ye go over Jor 48 And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying, 49 Get thee up into this mountain of Aba- a See Num. rim, unto mount Nebo, which is in Jericho; and behold the land of the land of Moab, that is over against dren of Israel for a possession: Canaan, which I give unto the chil50 and die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people: 51 because ye trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel. 52 Ford thou deh. 3. 27 thou shalt not go thither into the shalt see the land before thee; but land which I give the children of Josh. 14. 6. Israel. I And this is the blessing, 3 Yea, he loveth the 10 peoples; 4 Or, From the 9 Or, was fire, a law Or, as otherwise 6 Or, Praise his people, ye beginning of revenges upon the enemy Num. 20. 24, 25, 28 & 33. 38. 11-13 & 27. 14. & 34. 4. 1 Chr. 23. 2 Chr. 30. Cp. Ex. Ezra 3. 2. 19. 18, 20 & Ps. 68. & Hab. 3. 3. & Dan. 7. & Acts 7. 53 & Rev. 5. Hos. 11.1. h ch. 7. 7, 8 & 10. 15. |