^24 (A)then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins.

¹⁷ for ^(A)the great day of their wrath has come, and ^(B)who can stand?”

The Ministry of Reconciliation

¹¹ Therefore, knowing ^(A)the fear of the Lord, we persuade others. But ^(B)what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience.

⁵ But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him ^(A)who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell.^[a] Yes, I tell you, fear him!

²⁰ The Lord will not be willing to forgive him, but rather ^(A)the anger of the Lord and ^(B)his jealousy will smoke against that man, and the curses written in this book will settle upon him, and the Lord ^(C)will blot out his name from under heaven. ²¹ And the Lord will single him 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. ²² And the next generation, your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, ^(D)will say, when they see the afflictions of that land and the sicknesses with which the Lord has made it sick— ²³ the whole land burned out with brimstone and ^(E)salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, ^(F)an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, ^(G)Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath— ²⁴ all the nations ^(H)will say, ^(I)‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What caused the heat of this great anger?’ ²⁵ Then people will say, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt, ²⁶ and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they had not known and whom he had not allotted to them. ²⁷ Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, ^(J)bringing upon it all the curses written in this book, ²⁸ and the Lord ^(K)uprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath, and ^(L)cast them into another land, as they are this day.’

²⁹ “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

⁵⁹ then the Lord will bring on you and your offspring extraordinary afflictions, afflictions severe and lasting, and sicknesses grievous and lasting.