“Remember(A) the instruction you gave your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter(B) you among the nations,

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64 Then the Lord will scatter(A) you among all nations,(B) from one end of the earth to the other.(C) There you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.(D)

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25 After you have had children and grandchildren and have lived in the land a long time—if you then become corrupt(A) and make any kind of idol,(B) doing evil(C) in the eyes of the Lord your God and arousing his anger, 26 I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses(D) against you(E) this day that you will quickly perish(F) from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live there long but will certainly be destroyed. 27 The Lord will scatter(G) you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive(H) among the nations to which the Lord will drive you.

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33 I will scatter(A) you among the nations(B) and will draw out my sword(C) and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste,(D) and your cities will lie in ruins.(E) 34 Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate(F) and you are in the country of your enemies;(G) then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths. 35 All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest(H) it did not have during the sabbaths you lived in it.

36 “‘As for those of you who are left, I will make their hearts so fearful in the lands of their enemies that the sound of a windblown leaf(I) will put them to flight.(J) They will run as though fleeing from the sword, and they will fall, even though no one is pursuing them.(K) 37 They will stumble over one another(L) as though fleeing from the sword, even though no one is pursuing them. So you will not be able to stand before your enemies.(M) 38 You will perish(N) among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you.(O) 39 Those of you who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins; also because of their ancestors’(P) sins they will waste away.(Q)

40 “‘But if they will confess(R) their sins(S) and the sins of their ancestors(T)—their unfaithfulness and their hostility toward me, 41 which made me hostile(U) toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies—then when their uncircumcised hearts(V) are humbled(W) and they pay(X) for their sin, 42 I will remember my covenant with Jacob(Y) and my covenant with Isaac(Z) and my covenant with Abraham,(AA) and I will remember the land. 43 For the land will be deserted(AB) by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They will pay for their sins because they rejected(AC) my laws and abhorred my decrees.(AD) 44 Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies,(AE) I will not reject them or abhor(AF) them so as to destroy them completely,(AG) breaking my covenant(AH) with them. I am the Lord their God. 45 But for their sake I will remember(AI) the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of Egypt(AJ) in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the Lord.’”

46 These are the decrees, the laws and the regulations that the Lord established at Mount Sinai(AK) between himself and the Israelites through Moses.(AL)

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“But if you[a] or your descendants turn away(A) from me and do not observe the commands and decrees I have given you[b] and go off to serve other gods(B) and worship them, then I will cut off Israel from the land(C) I have given them and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name.(D) Israel will then become a byword(E) and an object of ridicule(F) among all peoples.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 9:6 The Hebrew is plural.
  2. 1 Kings 9:6 The Hebrew is plural.

26 I said I would scatter(A) them
    and erase their name from human memory,(B)
27 but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy,
    lest the adversary misunderstand(C)
and say, ‘Our hand has triumphed;
    the Lord has not done all this.’”(D)

28 They are a nation without sense,
    there is no discernment(E) in them.

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72 to show mercy to our ancestors(A)
    and to remember his holy covenant,(B)

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ז Zayin

49 Remember your word(A) to your servant,
    for you have given me hope.(B)

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