⁷ The Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched^(A) over your journey through this vast wilderness.^(B) These forty years^(C) the Lord your God has been with you, and you have not lacked anything.^(D)

⁴ Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.^(A)

¹⁸ for about forty years he endured their conduct^[a](A) in the wilderness;^(B)

⁵ Yet the Lord says, “During the forty years that I led^(A) you through the wilderness, your clothes did not wear out, nor did the sandals on your feet.^(B)

² Remember how the Lord your God led^(A) you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test^(B) you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.

³³ Your children will be shepherds here for forty years,^(A) suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness. ³⁴ For forty years^(B)—one year for each of the forty days you explored the land^(C)—you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you.’