God’s Gracious Dealings

8 “All the commandments that I am commanding you today you shall be careful to do, so that you ^(A)may live and increase, and go in and take possession of the land which the Lord swore to give to your forefathers. ^2 (B)And you shall remember all the way which the Lord your God has ^(C)led you in the wilderness these forty years, in order to humble you, ^(D)putting you to the test, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. ³ And He humbled you and let you go hungry, and fed you with the manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, in order to make you ^[a]understand that ^(E)man shall not live on bread alone, but man shall live on everything that comes out of the mouth of the Lord. ^4 (F)Your clothing did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years. ^5 (G)So you are to know in your heart that the Lord your God was disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son. ⁶ Therefore, you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to ^[b]fear Him. ⁷ For ^(H)the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of streams of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in valleys and hills; ⁸ a land of wheat and barley, of vines, fig trees, and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; ⁹ a land where you will eat food without shortage, in which you will not lack anything; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper. ¹⁰ When ^(I)you have eaten and are satisfied, you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you.

¹¹ “Be careful that you do not ^(J)forget the Lord your God by failing to keep His commandments, His ordinances, and His statutes which I am commanding you today; ¹² otherwise, ^(K)when you eat and are satisfied, and you build good houses and live in them, ¹³ and when your herds and your flocks increase, and your silver and gold increase, and everything that you have increases, ¹⁴ then your heart will ^[c]become proud and you will ^(L)forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of ^[d]slavery; ¹⁵ He who led you through ^(M)the great and terrible wilderness, with its ^(N)fiery serpents and scorpions, and its thirsty ground where there was no water; He who ^(O)brought water for you out of the rock of flint. ¹⁶ In the wilderness it was He who fed you manna ^(P)which your fathers did not know, in order to humble you and in order to ^(Q)put you to the test, to do good for you ^[e]in the end. ¹⁷ Otherwise, ^(R)you may say in your heart, ‘My power and the strength of my hand made me this wealth.’ ¹⁸ But you are to remember the Lord your God, for ^(S)it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, in order to confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. ¹⁹ And it shall come about, if you ever forget the Lord your God and follow other gods and serve and worship them, ^(T)I testify against you today that you will certainly perish. ²⁰ Like the nations that the Lord eliminates from you, so ^(U)you shall perish, because you would not listen to the voice of the Lord your God.

Security of One Who Trusts in the Lord.