Curses for disobedience. B. C. 1451. a ch. 7. 15. Heb. cause to ascend. b ch. 4. 27. c ch. 10. 22. Neh. 9. 23. d ch. 30. 9. Jer. 32. 41. e Prov. 1. 26. Is. 1. 24. f Lev. 26. 33. h Am. 9. 4. i Lev. 26. 32. k Lev. 26. 16. 1 Job 7. 4. m ver. 34. n Jer. 43, 7. Hos. 8. 13. & 9.3. o ch. 17. 16. a ch. 5. 2, 3. DEUTERONOMY. of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. 60 Moreover, he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee. 61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD + bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed. 62 And ye bshall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God. 63 And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it. 64 And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone. 65 And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and k sorrow of mind: 66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life: 67 In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and m for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. 68 And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you. CHAPTER XXIX. Moses exhorteth the people to obedience, in view of the works they have seen. 10 All are presented before the Lord to enter into covenant with him. 18 The great wrath which shall come on him that flattereth himself in his wickedness. 29 Secret things belong unto God. b Exhortation to obedience. b Ex. 19. 4. 2 ¶ And Moses called unto all Israel, B. C. 1451. and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land; 3 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles: 4 Yet the LORD hath not given you a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day. 5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: 'your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot: 6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink; that ye might know that I am the LORD your God. 9 Keep therefore the words of this ch. 4. 6. covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do. 10 Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel, 11 Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water: ם Josh. 1. 7. 1 Kings 2. 3. 1 Josh. 1. 7. m See Josh. 9. 21, 23, 27. o chỉ 23, 9. 12 That thou shouldest tenter into † Heb. pass. covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD n Neh. 10. 29. thy God maketh with thee this day: 13 That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, Pas he hath said unto thee, and as he a Gen. 17.7. hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. P Ex. 6. 7. 14 Neither with you only do I Jer. 31. 31, make this covenant and this oath; 15 But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day: 16 (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by; 17 And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them :) 18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, 32. 33. Heb. 8. 7, 8. See Acts 2. 39. 1 Cor. 7. 14. † Heb. dungy gods. ful herb. Heb, rosh. - Num. 15. 39. Ecc. 11. 9. | Or. stubhornness, Jer. 3. 17. & 7.24. + Heh, the drunken to the thirsty. * Is 30, 1. Ez. 14. 7, 8. 1 Pg. 74. L. 1 P. 79. 5. Ez. 23. 25. 9.14. < Matt. 24. 51. 19 And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, * to add drunkenness to thirst: 20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and *his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven. 21 And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of Heb. is writ- the covenant that are written in this book of the law : (1 Kings 9. 8, à. Jer. 22 8, Or, who had not gives to them any portion 24 Even all nations shall say, 'Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger? 25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: 26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not * given unto them: 27 And the anger of the LORD was Heb. divided. kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book : : Dan. 9. 11, 14 Mercy to the penitent. CHAPTER XXX. Great mercies promised unto the repentant. 11 The commandment is manifest. 15 Life and death are set before them. AND it shall come to pass, when B. C. 1451. a Lev. 26. 40. ball these things are come up- b ch. 28. on thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee, C c ch. 4. 29, 30. 1 Kings 8. 47, 48. 18. 55. 7. Lam. 3. 40. Joel 12, 13. 2 And shalt return unto the LORD a Neh. 1. 9. thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; 3 That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and 'gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee. e 4 If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee: 5 And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers. e Ps. 106. 45. & 126. 1, 4. Jer. 29. 14. Lam. 3. 22, 32. f Ps. 147. 2. Jer. 32. 37. Ez. 34. 13. & 36. 24. g ch. 28. 64. Neh. 1. 9. Jer. 32. 39. Ez. 11. 19. & 36. 26. 6 And the LORD thy God will cir- h ch. 10. 16. cumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. 7 And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee. 8 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day. Jer. 32. 41. 9 And the LORD thy God will make i ch. 28. 11. thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for ch. 28. 63. good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers; 10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. 11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, 'it is not 1 Is. 45. 19. hidden from thee, neither is it far off. 12 It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? &C. Life and death proposed. B. C. 1451. n ver. 1, 19. ch. 11. 26. o ch. 4. 26. & 8. 19. p ch. 4. 26. & r Ps. 27. 1. & a Ex. 7. 7. ch. 34. 7. b Num. 27. 17. 1 Kings 3. 7. e Num. 20. 12. & 27. 13. ch. 3. 27. DEUTERONOMY. 13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that 15 See, I have set before thee Moses encourageth Joshua. 6 Be strong and of a good courage, i Josh. 10. 25. fear not, nor be afraid of them : for the LORD thy God, 'he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, 1 ch. 20. 4. nor forsake thee. m 7 And Moses called unto Joshua, 17 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; 18 I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. 19 PI call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: 2 And he said unto them, I am a hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan. 3 The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them and Joshua, Num. 27. 21. he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said. d ch. 9. S. ch. 3. 28. f ch. 3. 21. Num. 21. 24, 33. b ch. 7. 2. e 4' And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed. 5 And the LORD shall give them m Josh. 1. 5. Heb. 13. 5. 8 And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; Phe will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake p Josh. 1. 5,9. thee: fear not, neither be dismayed. 9 ¶ And Moses wrote this law, and a ver. 25. ch. delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, 'which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel. 10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, 'in the feast of tabernacles, 17. 18. r Num. 4. 15. Josh. 3. 3. 1 Chr. 15. 12, 15. ch. 15. 1. Lev. 23. 34. u ch. 16. 16. 11 When all Israel is come to "appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou Josh. 8. 34, shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 35. 2 Kings 23. 2. Neh. 8. 1, 2, S, &c. 12 Gather the people together, men, y ch. 4. 10. and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God. and observe to do all the words of this law: 13 And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it. b ch. 11. 2 a Ps. 78. 6, 7. ch. 34. 35. c ver. 23. Num. 27. 19. 14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Num. 27. 13. Behold, thy days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation. 15 And the LORD appeared in the Ex. 33. 9. tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle. d 16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and 'go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will Heb. lie down, 2 Sam. 7. 12 Ex. 32. 6. Ex. 34. 15. Judg. 2. 17. | Israel's apostasy. B. C. 1451. ch. 32 15. Judg. 2. 12. & 10. 6, 13. Judg. 2. 20. 2 Chr. 15. 2. + Heb. And them, Neh. 9.32 ch. 52. 20. Ps. 104. 29. Is. 3. 17. & 64. 7. Ez. 59. 23. Judg. 6. 13. Num. 14. 42. a ver. 17. ⚫ver. 26. 7 ch. 32. 15. Neh. 9. 25, 26. Hos 13. 6. (ver. 16. It ver. 17. forsake me, and break my covenant | of your tribes, and your officers, that which I have made with them. I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them. 17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, 'Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us? 18 And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods. 19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel. 20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, floweth milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, Pand waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my cov enant. 21 And it shall come to pass, 'when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify Heb, before. † against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go Am 5.25, 25. about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I Hoe, 5, 3. & 13. 5. 6. i Heb. da d B. C. 1451. d ch. 30. 19. & 32. 1. e ch. 82. 5. Judg. 2. 19. Hos. 9. 9. f ch. 28. 15. 29 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and 'evil will befall you in the latter days; Gen. 49. 1. because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands. 30 And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended. ch. 4. 30 a ch. 4. 26. & 30. 19. & 31. 28. Ps. 50. 4. 1s. 1. 2. Jer. 2. 12. & 6. 19. b Is. 55. 10, 11. 1 Cor. S. 6,7,8. c Ps. 72. 6. Mic. 5. 7. d 1 Chr. 29. 11. e 2 Sam. 22. 3. & 23. 3. Ps. 18. 2, 31, 46. Hab. 1. 12. 2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upong Dan. 4. 37. the grass : 3 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God. е 4 He is the Rock, 'his work is perfect; for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he. 5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a 'perverse and crooked generation. f 2 Sam. 22. 31. Rev. 15. 3. h Jer. 10. 10. i Job 34. 10. Ps. 92. 15. k ch. 81. 29. 1 Matt. 17. 17. Luke 9. 41. Phil. 2. 15. m Ps. 116. 12. n Is. 63. 16. o Ps. 74. 2. Heb. He hath corrupted to himself. Or, that they are not his children, that is their blot. p ver. 15. Is. 27. 11. & 44. 2. 6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought Ex. 13. 14. thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee? Ps. 44. 1. & 78. 3, 4. r Zech. 9. 2. Acts 17. 26. tion and generation. 7¶ Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: Heb.generaask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee. 8 When the Most High 'divided to the nations their inheritance, when he 'separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. s Gen. 11. 8. u ch. 8. 15. 9 For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is the flot of his in- Heb. cord. heritance. 2 Ex. 19. 4. ch. 1. 31. Is. 31.5. & 46. 4. & 63. 9. Hos. 11. 3. 10 He found him "in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed Or, compass him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. y 11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, ed him about. Ths song of Moses. DEUTERONOMY. The song of Moses. the B. C. 1451. + Heb. from the chambers. B. C. 1451. fluttereth over her young, spreadeth 25 The sword without, and terror abroad her wings, taketh them, bear-† within, shall destroy both the eth them on her wings; young man and the virgin, suckling also with the man of gray + Heb.bereare. hairs. a ch. 33. 29. Is. 58. 14. Ez. 36. 2. b Job 29. 6. Ps. 81. 16. 12 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him. 13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; b 18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast "forgotten God that formed thee. 19 P And when the LORD saw it, Or, despised, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. Lam. 2. 6. m Lev. 17. 7. Ps. 106. 37. 1 Cor. 10. 20. n Is. 17. 10. r ch. 31. 17. * Is. 30.9. Matt. 17. 17. t ver. 16. Ps. 78. 58. 1 Sam. 12. 21. 1 Kings 16. 13, 26. Ps. 31. 6. Jer. 8. 19. & 10. 8. & 14. 22. Jonah 2. 8. Acts 14. 15. I Or, hath burned. Or, hath consumed. x Hos. 1. 10. Rom. 10. 19. y Jer. 15. 14. & 17. 4. Lam. 4. 11. z 18. 26. 15. r 20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith. 21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger " with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. 26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men : e 27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, "Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this. 28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them. c Lam. 1. 20. Ez. 7. 15. 2 Cor. 7. 5. d Ez. 20. 13, 14, 23. e Jer. 19. 4. f Ps. 140. 8. Or, Our higħ hand,and not the LORD hath done all this. g Is. 27. 11. Jer. 4. 22. 29 Oh that they were wise, that heh. 5. 29. they understood this, 'that they would consider their latter end! Ps. 81. 13. & 107. 43. Luke 19. 42. i Is. 47. 7. Lam. 1. 9. 30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to Lev. 26. 8. flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up? 31 For their rock is not as our Rock, "even our enemies themselves being judges. 32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter : 33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel a venom of asps. 34 Is not this 'laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treas ures? 35 To me belongeth vengeance, and Ps. 94. 1. recompense; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. 36 "For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left. u Ps. 135. 14. ! x Judg. 2 18. Ps. 106. 45. Jer. 31. 20, Joel 2. 14. † Heb, hand y 1 Kings 14. 10. & 21. 21. 2 Kings 9. 8. & 14. 26. 37 And he shall say, 2 Where are their gods, their rock in whom they z Judg. 10. 14. trusted, 38 Which did eat the fat of their Jer. 2. 28. 22 For a fire is kindled in mine est hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. 2 23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them. 24 They shall be burnt with hunger, Heb. burn and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will ing coals, Hub. 3. 5. Ez. 5. 16. a Ps. 7. 12, 13. also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. b Lev. 26. 22. |