Yahweh Will Take You Back

30 “So it will be, when all of these things have come upon you, ^(A)the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you cause these things to return to your heart ^(B)in all the nations where Yahweh your God has banished you, ² and you ^(C)return to Yahweh your God and listen to His voice ^(D)with all your heart and soul according to all that I am commanding you today, you and your sons, ³ then Yahweh your God will ^[a](E)return ^[b]you from captivity and return His compassion on you, and He ^(F)will gather you again from all the peoples where Yahweh your God has ^(G)scattered you. ⁴ If those of you who are banished are at the ends of the sky, ^(H)from there Yahweh your God will gather you, and from there He will take you back. ^5 (I)And Yahweh your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and He will prosper you and ^(J)multiply you more than your fathers.

⁶ “Moreover ^(K)Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your seed, ^(L)to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live. ^7 (M)And Yahweh your God will ^[c]inflict all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you. ⁸ And you shall return and listen to the voice of Yahweh, and you shall do all His commandments which I am commanding you today. ^9 (N)Then Yahweh your God will ^[d]prosper you abundantly in all the work of your hand, in the ^[e]offspring of your ^[f]body and in the ^[g]offspring of your cattle and in the ^[h]produce of your ground, for ^(O)Yahweh will return to rejoice over you for good, just as He rejoiced over your fathers, ^10 [i]when you listen to the voice of Yahweh your God to keep His commandments and His statutes which ^(P)are written in this book of the law, ^[j]when you return to Yahweh your God ^(Q)with all your heart and soul.

¹¹ “For this commandment which I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it far from you. ¹² It is not in heaven, ^[k]that you should say, ‘^(R)Who will go up to heaven for us and get it for us and make us hear it, that we may do it?’ ¹³ Nor is it beyond the sea, ^[l]that you should say, ‘Who will cross the sea for us and get it for us and make us hear it, that we may do it?’ ¹⁴ But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.

Choose Life

¹⁵ “See, ^(S)I have set before you today life and ^[m]prosperity, and death and ^[n]calamity; ¹⁶ in that I am commanding you today ^(T)to love Yahweh your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, that you ^(U)may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you are entering to possess it. ¹⁷ But if your heart turns away and you will not listen, but are drawn away and worship other gods and serve them, ¹⁸ I declare to you today that ^(V)you shall surely perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you are crossing the Jordan to enter ^[o]and possess it. ^19 (W)I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, ^(X)the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your seed, ^20 (Y)by loving Yahweh your God, by listening to His voice, and ^(Z)by holding fast to Him; ^(AA)for ^[p]this is your life and the length of your days, ^[q]that you may live in ^(AB)the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”