Daniel 9:11

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¹¹“All Israel has transgressed your law and turned aside, refusing to obey your voice. So the curse and the oath written in the law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured out upon us because we have sinned against you.^(A)

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Daniel 9:11

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¹¹All Israel has transgressed^(A) your law^(B) and turned away, refusing to obey you.

“Therefore the curses^(C) and sworn judgments^(D) written in the Law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured out on us, because we have sinned^(E) against you.

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Isaiah 1:4-6

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⁴Woe, sinful nation,
    people laden with iniquity,
offspring who do evil,
    children who act corruptly,
who have forsaken the Lord,
    who have despised the Holy One of Israel,
    [[who are utterly estranged!]]^[a]^(A)

⁵Why do you seek further beatings?
    Why do you continue to rebel?
The whole head is injured,
    and the whole heart faint.^(B)
⁶From the sole of the foot to the head,
    there is no soundness in it,
only bruises and sores
    and bleeding wounds;
they have not been drained or bound up
    or softened with oil.^(C)

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1.4 Gk OL lack: Heb adds who are utterly estranged

Isaiah 1:4-6

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⁴Woe to the sinful nation,
    a people whose guilt is great,^(A)
a brood of evildoers,^(B)
    children given to corruption!^(C)
They have forsaken^(D) the Lord;
    they have spurned the Holy One^(E) of Israel
    and turned their backs^(F) on him.

⁵Why should you be beaten^(G) anymore?
    Why do you persist^(H) in rebellion?^(I)
Your whole head is injured,
    your whole heart^(J) afflicted.^(K)
⁶From the sole of your foot to the top of your head^(L)
    there is no soundness^(M)—
only wounds and welts^(N)
    and open sores,
not cleansed or bandaged^(O)
    or soothed with olive oil.^(P)

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Deuteronomy 28:15-68

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Warnings against Disobedience

¹⁵“But if you will not obey the Lord your God by diligently observing all his commandments and decrees that I am commanding you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you:^(A)

¹⁶“Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.

¹⁷“Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

¹⁸“Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle and the issue of your flock.

¹⁹“Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

²⁰“The Lord will send upon you disaster, panic, and frustration in everything you attempt to do, until you are destroyed and perish quickly, on account of the evil of your deeds with which you have forsaken me.^(B) ²¹The Lord will make the pestilence cling to you until it has consumed you off the land that you are entering to possess.^(C) ²²The Lord will afflict you with consumption, fever, inflammation, with fiery heat and drought,^[a] and with blight and mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish.^(D) ²³The sky over your head shall be bronze and the earth under you iron.^(E) ²⁴The Lord will change the rain of your land into powder, and only dust shall come down upon you from the sky until you are destroyed.

²⁵“The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out against them one way and flee before them seven ways. You shall become an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.^(F) ²⁶Your corpses shall be food for every bird of the air and animal of the earth, and there shall be no one to frighten them away.^(G) ²⁷The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors, scurvy, and itch, of which you cannot be healed.^(H) ²⁸The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness, and confusion of mind; ²⁹you shall grope about at noon as blind people grope in darkness, but you shall be unable to find your way, and you shall be continually abused and robbed, without anyone to help.^(I) ³⁰You shall become engaged to a woman, but another man shall lie with her. You shall build a house but not live in it. You shall plant a vineyard but not enjoy its fruit.^(J) ³¹Your ox shall be butchered before your eyes, but you shall not eat of it. Your donkey shall be stolen in front of you and shall not be restored to you. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies without anyone to help you. ³²Your sons and daughters shall be given to another people while you look on; you will strain your eyes looking for them all day but be powerless to do anything.^(K) ³³A people whom you do not know shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors; you shall be continually abused and crushed^(L) ³⁴and driven mad by the sight that your eyes shall see. ³⁵The Lord will strike you on the knees and on the legs with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.^(M) ³⁶The Lord will bring you and the king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your ancestors have known, where you shall serve other gods, of wood and stone.^(N) ³⁷You shall become an object of horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you.^(O)

³⁸“You shall carry much seed into the field but shall gather little in, for the locust shall consume it.^(P) ³⁹You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them. ⁴⁰You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off. ⁴¹You shall have sons and daughters, but they shall not remain yours, for they shall go into captivity.^(Q) ⁴²All your trees and the fruit of your ground the cicada shall take over.^(R) ⁴³Aliens residing among you shall ascend above you higher and higher, while you shall descend lower and lower.^(S) ⁴⁴They shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to them; they shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.^(T)

⁴⁵“All these curses shall come upon you, pursuing and overtaking you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the Lord your God by observing the commandments and the decrees that he commanded you.^(U) ⁴⁶They shall be among you and your descendants as a sign and a portent forever.

⁴⁷“Because you did not serve the Lord your God joyfully and with gladness of heart for the abundance of everything,^(V) ⁴⁸therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and lack of everything. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.^(W) ⁴⁹The Lord will bring a nation from far away, from the end of the earth, to swoop down on you like an eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand,^(X) ⁵⁰a grim-faced nation showing no respect to the old or favor to the young. ⁵¹It shall consume the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground until you are destroyed, leaving you neither grain, wine, and oil nor the increase of your cattle and the issue of your flock, until it has made you perish.^(Y) ⁵²It shall besiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout your land; it shall besiege you in all your towns throughout the land that the Lord your God has given you.^(Z) ⁵³In the desperate straits to which the enemy siege reduces you, you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your own sons and daughters whom the Lord your God has given you.^(AA) ⁵⁴Even the most refined and gentle of men among you will begrudge food to his own brother, to the wife whom he embraces, and to the last of his remaining children, ⁵⁵giving to none of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because nothing else remains to him, in the desperate straits to which the enemy siege will reduce you in all your towns. ⁵⁶She who is the most refined and gentle among you, so gentle and refined that she does not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge food to the husband whom she embraces, to her own son, and to her own daughter,^(AB) ⁵⁷begrudging even the afterbirth that comes out from between her thighs and the children that she bears, because she is eating them in secret for lack of anything else, in the desperate straits to which the enemy siege will reduce you in your towns.

⁵⁸“If you do not diligently observe all the words of this law that are written in this book, fearing this glorious and awesome name, the Lord your God,^(AC) ⁵⁹then the Lord will overwhelm both you and your offspring with severe and lasting afflictions and grievous and lasting maladies. ⁶⁰He will bring back upon you all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were in dread, and they shall cling to you.^(AD) ⁶¹Every other malady and affliction, even though not recorded in the book of this law, the Lord will inflict on you until you are destroyed.^(AE) ⁶²Although once you were as numerous as the stars in heaven, you shall be left few in number because you did not obey the Lord your God.^(AF) ⁶³And just as the Lord took delight in making you prosperous and numerous, so the Lord will take delight in bringing you to ruin and destruction; you shall be plucked off the land that you are entering to possess.^(AG) ⁶⁴The Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods, of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.^(AH) ⁶⁵Among those nations you shall find no ease, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a languishing spirit.^(AI) ⁶⁶Your life shall hang in doubt before you; night and day you shall be in dread, with no assurance of your life. ⁶⁷In the morning you shall say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and at evening you shall say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread that your heart shall feel and the sights that your eyes shall see.^(AJ) ⁶⁸The Lord will bring you back in ships to Egypt, by a route that I promised you would never see again, and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”

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28.22 Gk Syr Tg: MT the sword

Deuteronomy 28:15-68

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Curses for Disobedience

¹⁵However, if you do not obey^(A) the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today,^(B) all these curses will come on you and overtake you:^(C)

¹⁶You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.^(D)

¹⁷Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.^(E)

¹⁸The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.^(F)

¹⁹You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.^(G)

²⁰The Lord will send on you curses,^(H) confusion and rebuke^(I) in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin^(J) because of the evil^(K) you have done in forsaking him.^[a] ²¹The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess.^(L) ²²The Lord will strike you with wasting disease,^(M) with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought,^(N) with blight^(O) and mildew, which will plague^(P) you until you perish.^(Q) ²³The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron.^(R) ²⁴The Lord will turn the rain^(S) of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.

²⁵The Lord will cause you to be defeated^(T) before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven,^(U) and you will become a thing of horror^(V) to all the kingdoms on earth.^(W) ²⁶Your carcasses will be food for all the birds^(X) and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away.^(Y) ²⁷The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt^(Z) and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured. ²⁸The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind. ²⁹At midday you will grope^(AA) about like a blind person in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue^(AB) you.

³⁰You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her.^(AC) You will build a house, but you will not live in it.^(AD) You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit.^(AE) ³¹Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it. Your donkey will be forcibly taken from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them. ³²Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation,^(AF) and you will wear out your eyes watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand. ³³A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression^(AG) all your days.^(AH) ³⁴The sights you see will drive you mad.^(AI) ³⁵The Lord will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils^(AJ) that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.^(AK)

³⁶The Lord will drive you and the king^(AL) you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your ancestors.^(AM) There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone.^(AN) ³⁷You will become a thing of horror,^(AO) a byword^(AP) and an object of ridicule^(AQ) among all the peoples where the Lord will drive you.^(AR)

³⁸You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little,^(AS) because locusts^(AT) will devour^(AU) it. ³⁹You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine^(AV) or gather the grapes, because worms will eat^(AW) them.^(AX) ⁴⁰You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off.^(AY) ⁴¹You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity.^(AZ) ⁴²Swarms of locusts^(BA) will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.

⁴³The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower.^(BB) ⁴⁴They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them.^(BC) They will be the head, but you will be the tail.^(BD)

⁴⁵All these curses will come on you. They will pursue you and overtake you^(BE) until you are destroyed,^(BF) because you did not obey the Lord your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you. ⁴⁶They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever.^(BG) ⁴⁷Because you did not serve^(BH) the Lord your God joyfully and gladly^(BI) in the time of prosperity, ⁴⁸therefore in hunger and thirst,^(BJ) in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke^(BK) on your neck^(BL) until he has destroyed you.

⁴⁹The Lord will bring a nation against you^(BM) from far away, from the ends of the earth,^(BN) like an eagle^(BO) swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand,^(BP) ⁵⁰a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old^(BQ) or pity for the young. ⁵¹They will devour the young of your livestock and the crops of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine^(BR) or olive oil,^(BS) nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined.^(BT) ⁵²They will lay siege^(BU) to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the Lord your God is giving you.^(BV)

⁵³Because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you.^(BW) ⁵⁴Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children, ⁵⁵and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities.^(BX) ⁵⁶The most gentle and sensitive^(BY) woman among you—so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot—will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter^(BZ) ⁵⁷the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For in her dire need she intends to eat them^(CA) secretly because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of your cities.

⁵⁸If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law,^(CB) which are written in this book, and do not revere^(CC) this glorious and awesome name^(CD)—the Lord your God— ⁵⁹the Lord will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses. ⁶⁰He will bring on you all the diseases of Egypt^(CE) that you dreaded, and they will cling to you. ⁶¹The Lord will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law,^(CF) until you are destroyed.^(CG) ⁶²You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky^(CH) will be left but few^(CI) in number, because you did not obey the Lord your God. ⁶³Just as it pleased^(CJ) the Lord to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please^(CK) him to ruin and destroy you.^(CL) You will be uprooted^(CM) from the land you are entering to possess.

⁶⁴Then the Lord will scatter^(CN) you among all nations,^(CO) from one end of the earth to the other.^(CP) There you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.^(CQ) ⁶⁵Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place^(CR) for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you an anxious mind, eyes^(CS) weary with longing, and a despairing heart.^(CT) ⁶⁶You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life. ⁶⁷In the morning you will say, “If only it were evening!” and in the evening, “If only it were morning!”—because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see.^(CU) ⁶⁸The Lord will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again.^(CV) There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.

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Deuteronomy 28:20 Hebrew me

Jeremiah 8:5-10

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⁵Why then has this people^[a] turned away
    in perpetual faithlessness?
They have held fast to deceit;
    they have refused to return.^(A)
⁶I have given heed and listened,
    but they do not speak honestly;
no one repents of wickedness,
    saying, “What have I done!”
All of them turn to their own course
    like a horse plunging headlong into battle.^(B)
⁷Even the stork in the heavens
    knows its times,
and the turtledove, swallow, and crane^[b]
    observe the time of their coming,
but my people do not know
    the ordinance of the Lord.^(C)

⁸How can you say, “We are wise,
    and the law of the Lord is with us,”
when, in fact, the false pen of the scribes
    has made it into a lie?^(D)
⁹The wise shall be put to shame;
    they shall be dismayed and taken;
since they have rejected the word of the Lord,
    what wisdom is in them?^(E)
¹⁰Therefore I will give their wives to others
    and their fields to conquerors,
because from the least to the greatest
    everyone is greedy for unjust gain;
from prophet to priest,
    everyone deals falsely.^(F)

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8.5 Heb ms Gk: MT this people, Jerusalem,
8.7 Meaning of Heb uncertain

Jeremiah 8:5-10

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⁵Why then have these people turned away?
    Why does Jerusalem always turn away?
They cling to deceit;^(A)
    they refuse to return.^(B)
⁶I have listened^(C) attentively,
    but they do not say what is right.
None of them repent^(D) of their wickedness,
    saying, “What have I done?”
Each pursues their own course^(E)
    like a horse charging into battle.
⁷Even the stork in the sky
    knows her appointed seasons,
and the dove, the swift and the thrush
    observe the time of their migration.
But my people do not know^(F)
    the requirements of the Lord.

⁸“‘How can you say, “We are wise,
    for we have the law^(G) of the Lord,”
when actually the lying pen of the scribes
    has handled it falsely?
⁹The wise^(H) will be put to shame;
    they will be dismayed^(I) and trapped.^(J)
Since they have rejected the word^(K) of the Lord,
    what kind of wisdom^(L) do they have?
¹⁰Therefore I will give their wives to other men
    and their fields to new owners.^(M)
From the least to the greatest,
    all are greedy for gain;^(N)
prophets^(O) and priests alike,
    all practice deceit.^(P)

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Ezekiel 22:26-31

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²⁶Its priests have done violence to my teaching and have profaned my holy things; they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they have disregarded my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.^(A) ²⁷Its officials within it are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.^(B) ²⁸Its prophets have smeared whitewash on their behalf, seeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, “Thus says the Lord God,” when the Lord has not spoken.^(C) ²⁹The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery; they have oppressed the poor and needy and have extorted from the alien without justice.^(D) ³⁰And I sought for anyone among them who would repair the wall and stand in the breach before me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it, but I found no one.^(E) ³¹Therefore I have poured out my indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath; I have returned their conduct upon their heads, says the Lord God.^(F)

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Ezekiel 22:26-31

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²⁶Her priests do violence to my law^(A) and profane my holy things; they do not distinguish between the holy and the common;^(B) they teach that there is no difference between the unclean and the clean;^(C) and they shut their eyes to the keeping of my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned^(D) among them.^(E) ²⁷Her officials^(F) within her are like wolves^(G) tearing their prey; they shed blood and kill people^(H) to make unjust gain.^(I) ²⁸Her prophets whitewash^(J) these deeds for them by false visions and lying divinations.^(K) They say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says’—when the Lord has not spoken.^(L) ²⁹The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery;^(M) they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner,^(N) denying them justice.^(O)

³⁰“I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall^(P) and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one.^(Q) ³¹So I will pour out my wrath on them and consume them with my fiery anger,^(R) bringing down^(S) on their own heads all they have done, declares the Sovereign Lord.^(T)”

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Jeremiah 9:26

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²⁶Egypt, Judah, Edom, the Ammonites, Moab, and all those with shaved temples who live in the desert. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.^(A)

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Jeremiah 9:26

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²⁶Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab and all who live in the wilderness in distant places.^[a]^(A) For all these nations are really uncircumcised,^(B) and even the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.^(C)”

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Jeremiah 9:26 Or wilderness and who clip the hair by their foreheads

2 Kings 17:18-23

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¹⁸Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight; none was left but the tribe of Judah alone.^(A)

¹⁹Judah also did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God but walked in the customs that Israel had introduced. ²⁰The Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel; he punished them and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had banished them from his presence.^(B)

²¹When he had torn Israel from the house of David, they made Jeroboam son of Nebat king. Jeroboam drove Israel from following the Lord and made them commit great sin.^(C) ²²The people of Israel continued in all the sins that Jeroboam committed; they did not depart from them ²³until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight, as he had foretold through all his servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day.

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2 Kings 17:18-23

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¹⁸So the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them from his presence.^(A) Only the tribe of Judah was left, ¹⁹and even Judah did not keep the commands of the Lord their God. They followed the practices Israel had introduced.^(B) ²⁰Therefore the Lord rejected all the people of Israel; he afflicted them and gave them into the hands of plunderers,^(C) until he thrust them from his presence.^(D)

²¹When he tore^(E) Israel away from the house of David, they made Jeroboam son of Nebat their king.^(F) Jeroboam enticed Israel away from following the Lord and caused them to commit a great sin.^(G) ²²The Israelites persisted in all the sins of Jeroboam and did not turn away from them ²³until the Lord removed them from his presence,^(H) as he had warned^(I) through all his servants the prophets. So the people of Israel were taken from their homeland^(J) into exile in Assyria, and they are still there.

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Deuteronomy 32:19-42

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¹⁹The Lord saw it and was jealous;^[a]
    he spurned^[b] his sons and daughters.^(A)
²⁰He said, ‘I will hide my face from them;
    I will see what their end will be,
for they are a perverse generation,
    children in whom there is no faithfulness.^(B)
²¹They made me jealous with what is no god,
    provoked me with their idols.
So I will make them jealous with what is no people,
    provoke them with a foolish nation.^(C)
²²For a fire is kindled by my anger
    and burns to the depths of Sheol;
it devours the earth and its increase
    and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.^(D)
²³I will heap disasters upon them,
    spend my arrows against them:^(E)
²⁴wasting hunger,
    burning consumption,
    bitter pestilence.
The teeth of beasts I will send against them,
    with venom of things crawling in the dust.^(F)
²⁵In the street the sword shall bereave,
    and in the chambers terror
for young man and woman alike,
    nursing child and old gray head.^(G)
²⁶I said, “I will make an end of them^[c]
    and blot out the memory of them from humankind,”^(H)
²⁷but I feared provocation by the enemy,
    for their adversaries might misunderstand
and say, “Our hand is triumphant;
    it was not the Lord who did all this.” ’^(I)

²⁸They are a nation void of sense;
    there is no understanding in them.
²⁹If they were wise, they would understand this;
    they would discern what their end would be.^(J)
³⁰How could one have routed a thousand
    and two put a myriad to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
    the Lord had given them up?^(K)
³¹Indeed, their rock is not like our Rock;
    our enemies are fools.^[d]^(L)
³²Their vine comes from the vinestock of Sodom,
    from the vineyards of Gomorrah;
their grapes are grapes of poison;
    their clusters are bitter;
³³their wine is the poison of serpents,
    the cruel venom of asps.^(M)

³⁴Is not this laid up in store with me,
    sealed up in my treasuries,^(N)
³⁵for the day of vengeance^[e] and recompense,
    for the time when their foot shall slip?
Because the day of their calamity is at hand;
    their doom comes swiftly.^(O)

³⁶Indeed, the Lord will vindicate his people,
    have compassion on his servants,
when he sees that their power is gone,
    neither bond nor free remaining.^(P)
³⁷Then he will say, ‘Where are their gods,
    the rock in which they took refuge,^(Q)
³⁸who ate the fat of their sacrifices
    and drank the wine of their libations?
Let them rise up and help you;
    let them be your protection!

³⁹See now that I, even I, am he;
    there is no god besides me.
I kill, and I make alive;
    I wound, and I heal;
    and no one can deliver from my hand.^(R)
⁴⁰For I lift up my hand to heaven
    and swear, As I live forever,
⁴¹when I whet my flashing sword
    and my hand takes hold on judgment,
I will take vengeance on my adversaries
    and will repay those who hate me.^(S)
⁴²I will make my arrows drunk with blood,
    and my sword shall devour flesh—
with the blood of the slain and the captives,
    from the long-haired enemy.’^(T)

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32.19 Q mss Gk: MT lacks was jealous
32.19 Cn: Heb he spurned because of provocation
32.26 Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain
32.31 Gk: Heb judges
32.35 Sam Gk: MT vengeance is mine

Deuteronomy 32:19-42

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¹⁹The Lord saw this and rejected them^(A)
    because he was angered by his sons and daughters.^(B)
²⁰“I will hide my face^(C) from them,” he said,
    “and see what their end will be;
for they are a perverse generation,^(D)
    children who are unfaithful.^(E)
²¹They made me jealous^(F) by what is no god
    and angered me with their worthless idols.^(G)
I will make them envious by those who are not a people;
    I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.^(H)
²²For a fire will be kindled by my wrath,^(I)
    one that burns down to the realm of the dead below.^(J)
It will devour^(K) the earth and its harvests^(L)
    and set afire the foundations of the mountains.^(M)

²³“I will heap calamities^(N) on them
    and spend my arrows^(O) against them.
²⁴I will send wasting famine^(P) against them,
    consuming pestilence^(Q) and deadly plague;^(R)
I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts,^(S)
    the venom of vipers^(T) that glide in the dust.^(U)
²⁵In the street the sword will make them childless;
    in their homes terror^(V) will reign.^(W)
The young men and young women will perish,
    the infants and those with gray hair.^(X)
²⁶I said I would scatter^(Y) them
    and erase their name from human memory,^(Z)
²⁷but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy,
    lest the adversary misunderstand^(AA)
and say, ‘Our hand has triumphed;
    the Lord has not done all this.’”^(AB)

²⁸They are a nation without sense,
    there is no discernment^(AC) in them.
²⁹If only they were wise and would understand this^(AD)
    and discern what their end will be!^(AE)
³⁰How could one man chase a thousand,
    or two put ten thousand to flight,^(AF)
unless their Rock had sold them,^(AG)
    unless the Lord had given them up?^(AH)
³¹For their rock is not like our Rock,^(AI)
    as even our enemies concede.^(AJ)
³²Their vine comes from the vine of Sodom^(AK)
    and from the fields of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are filled with poison,^(AL)
    and their clusters with bitterness.^(AM)
³³Their wine is the venom of serpents,
    the deadly poison of cobras.^(AN)

³⁴“Have I not kept this in reserve
    and sealed it in my vaults?^(AO)
³⁵It is mine to avenge;^(AP) I will repay.^(AQ)
    In due time their foot will slip;^(AR)
their day of disaster is near
    and their doom rushes upon them.^(AS)”

³⁶The Lord will vindicate his people^(AT)
    and relent^(AU) concerning his servants^(AV)
when he sees their strength is gone
    and no one is left, slave^(AW) or free.^[a]
³⁷He will say: “Now where are their gods,
    the rock they took refuge in,^(AX)
³⁸the gods who ate the fat of their sacrifices
    and drank the wine of their drink offerings?^(AY)
Let them rise up to help you!
    Let them give you shelter!

³⁹“See now that I myself am he!^(AZ)
    There is no god besides me.^(BA)
I put to death^(BB) and I bring to life,^(BC)
    I have wounded and I will heal,^(BD)
    and no one can deliver out of my hand.^(BE)
⁴⁰I lift my hand^(BF) to heaven and solemnly swear:
    As surely as I live forever,^(BG)
⁴¹when I sharpen my flashing sword^(BH)
    and my hand grasps it in judgment,
I will take vengeance^(BI) on my adversaries
    and repay those who hate me.^(BJ)
⁴²I will make my arrows drunk with blood,^(BK)
    while my sword devours flesh:^(BL)
the blood of the slain and the captives,
    the heads of the enemy leaders.”

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Deuteronomy 32:36 Or and they are without a ruler or leader

Deuteronomy 31:17-18

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¹⁷My anger will be kindled against them on that day. I will forsake them and hide my face from them; they will become easy prey, and many terrible troubles will come upon them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these troubles come upon us because our God is not in our midst?’^(A) ¹⁸On that day I will surely hide my face on account of all the evil they have done by turning to other gods.

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Deuteronomy 31:17-18

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¹⁷And in that day I will become angry^(A) with them and forsake^(B) them; I will hide^(C) my face^(D) from them, and they will be destroyed. Many disasters^(E) and calamities will come on them, and in that day they will ask, ‘Have not these disasters come on us because our God is not with us?’^(F) ¹⁸And I will certainly hide my face in that day because of all their wickedness in turning to other gods.

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Deuteronomy 30:17-19

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¹⁷But if your heart turns away and you do not hear but are led astray to bow down to other gods and serve them, ¹⁸I declare to you today that you shall certainly perish; you shall not live long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.^(A) ¹⁹I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live,^(B)

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Deuteronomy 30:17-19

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¹⁷But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, ¹⁸I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed.^(A) You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.

¹⁹This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you^(B) that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses.^(C) Now choose life, so that you and your children may live

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Deuteronomy 29:20-29

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²⁰the Lord will be unwilling to pardon them, for then the Lord’s anger and passion will smoke against them. All the curses written in this book will descend on them, and the Lord will blot out their names from under heaven.^(A) ²¹The Lord will single them out from all the tribes of Israel for calamity, in accordance with all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law.^(B) ²²The next generation, your children who rise up after you, as well as the foreigner who comes from a distant country, will see the devastation of that land and the afflictions with which the Lord has afflicted it^(C)— ²³all its soil burned out by sulfur and salt, nothing planted, nothing sprouting, unable to support any vegetation, like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his fierce anger^(D)— ²⁴they and indeed all the nations will wonder, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What caused this great display of anger?’^(E) ²⁵They will conclude, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. ²⁶They turned and served other gods, worshiping them, gods whom they had not known and whom he had not allotted to them; ²⁷so the anger of the Lord was kindled against that land, bringing on it every curse written in this book. ²⁸The Lord uprooted them from their land in anger, fury, and great wrath and cast them into another land, as is now the case.’^(F) ²⁹The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the revealed things belong to us and to our children forever, to observe all the words of this law.

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Deuteronomy 29:20-29

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²⁰The Lord will never be willing to forgive^(A) them; his wrath and zeal^(B) will burn^(C) against them. All the curses written in this book will fall on them, and the Lord will blot^(D) out their names from under heaven. ²¹The Lord will single them out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster,^(E) according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.^(F)

²²Your children who follow you in later generations and foreigners who come from distant lands will see the calamities that have fallen on the land and the diseases with which the Lord has afflicted it.^(G) ²³The whole land will be a burning waste^(H) of salt^(I) and sulfur—nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah,^(J) Admah and Zeboyim, which the Lord overthrew in fierce anger.^(K) ²⁴All the nations will ask: “Why has the Lord done this to this land?^(L) Why this fierce, burning anger?”

²⁵And the answer will be: “It is because this people abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, the covenant he made with them when he brought them out of Egypt.^(M) ²⁶They went off and worshiped other gods and bowed down to them, gods they did not know, gods he had not given them. ²⁷Therefore the Lord’s anger burned against this land, so that he brought on it all the curses written in this book.^(N) ²⁸In furious anger and in great wrath^(O) the Lord uprooted^(P) them from their land and thrust them into another land, as it is now.”

²⁹The secret things belong to the Lord our God,^(Q) but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.^(R)

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Deuteronomy 27:15-26

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¹⁵“ ‘Cursed be anyone who makes an idol or casts an image, anything abhorrent to the Lord, the work of an artisan, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall respond, saying, ‘Amen!’^(A)

¹⁶“ ‘Cursed be anyone who dishonors father or mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’^(B)

¹⁷“ ‘Cursed be anyone who moves a neighbor’s boundary marker.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’^(C)

¹⁸“ ‘Cursed be anyone who misleads a blind person on the road.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’^(D)

¹⁹“ ‘Cursed be anyone who deprives an alien, an orphan, or a widow of justice.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’^(E)

²⁰“ ‘Cursed be anyone who lies with his father’s wife, because he has violated his father’s rights.’^[a] All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’^(F)

²¹“ ‘Cursed be anyone who lies with any animal.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’^(G)

²²“ ‘Cursed be anyone who lies with his sister, whether the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’^(H)

²³“ ‘Cursed be anyone who lies with his mother-in-law.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’^(I)

²⁴“ ‘Cursed be anyone who strikes down a neighbor in secret.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’^(J)

²⁵“ ‘Cursed be anyone who takes a bribe to shed innocent blood.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’^(K)

²⁶“ ‘Cursed be anyone who does not uphold the words of this law by observing them.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’^(L)

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27.20 Heb uncovered his father’s skirt

Deuteronomy 27:15-26

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¹⁵“Cursed is anyone who makes an idol^(A)—a thing detestable^(B) to the Lord, the work of skilled hands—and sets it up in secret.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”^(C)

¹⁶“Cursed is anyone who dishonors their father or mother.”^(D)