You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain while it blazed with fire to the very heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness.

I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live there long but will certainly be destroyed.

The Lord Is God

Ask now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created human beings on the earth; ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of?

To the Lord your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it.

Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you, and he will shut up the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield no produce, and you will soon perish from the good land the Lord is giving you.

so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.

The Lord will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none.

Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the Lord your God will gather you and bring you back.

This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live

Assemble before me all the elders of your tribes and all your officials, so that I can speak these words in their hearing and call the heavens and the earth to testify against them.

Listen, you heavens, and I will speak; hear, you earth, the words of my mouth.

“There is no one like the God of Jeshurun, who rides across the heavens to help you and on the clouds in his majesty.

So Israel will live in safety; Jacob will dwell secure in a land of grain and new wine, where the heavens drop dew.