25 “When you [a]become the father of children and children’s children and have remained long in the land, and (A)act corruptly, and (B)make an [b]idol in the form of anything, and (C)do that which is evil in the sight of the Lord your God so as to provoke Him to anger, 26 I (D)call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will (E)surely perish quickly from the land where you are going over the Jordan to possess it. You shall not [c]live long on it, but will be utterly destroyed. 27 The Lord will (F)scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord drives you.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 4:25 Lit beget
  2. Deuteronomy 4:25 Or a graven image
  3. Deuteronomy 4:26 Lit prolong your days