25 ¶ When thou shalt beget children and children’s children, and shalt have remained long in the land, if ye [a]corrupt yourselves, and make any graven image, or likeness of anything, and work evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, to provoke him to anger,

26 I [b]call heaven and earth to record against you this day, that ye shall shortly perish from the land, whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it: ye shall not prolong your days therein, but shall utterly be destroyed.

27 And the Lord shall [c]scatter you among the people, and ye shall be left few in number among the nations, whither the Lord shall bring you:

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 4:25 Meaning hereby all superstition and corruption of the true service of God.
  2. Deuteronomy 4:26 Though men would absolve you, yet the insensible creatures shall be witnesses of your disobedience.
  3. Deuteronomy 4:27 So that his curse shall make his former blessings of none effect.

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