Deuteronomy 29:22-30:5

New International Version

²² Your 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.^{(A) 23} The whole land will be a burning waste^(B) of salt^(C) and sulfur—nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah,^(D) Admah and Zeboyim, which the Lord overthrew in fierce anger.^{(E) 24} All the nations will ask: “Why has the Lord done this to this land?^(F) Why this fierce, burning anger?”

²⁵ And 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.^{(G) 26} They went off and worshiped other gods and bowed down to them, gods they did not know, gods he had not given them. ²⁷ Therefore the Lord’s anger burned against this land, so that he brought on it all the curses written in this book.^{(H) 28} In furious anger and in great wrath^(I) the Lord uprooted^(J) them from their land and thrust them into another land, as it is now.”

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

Prosperity After Turning to the Lord

30 When all these blessings and curses^(M) I have set before you come on you and you take them to heart wherever the Lord your God disperses you among the nations,^{(N) 2} and when you and your children return^(O) to the Lord your God and obey him with all your heart^(P) and with all your soul according to everything I command you today, ³ then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes^[a](Q) and have compassion^(R) on you and gather^(S) you again from all the nations where he scattered^(T) you.^{(U) 4} Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens,^(V) from there the Lord your God will gather^(W) you and bring you back.^{(X) 5} He will bring^(Y) you to the land that belonged to your ancestors, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous^(Z) than your ancestors.