When you are in distress, and all these things have come upon you in the latter days; then when you have returned unto Jehovah your God and have obeyed His voice

But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me,

then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember; and I will remember the land.

Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor shall I abhor them, to utterly destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am Jehovah their God.

These are the statutes and judgments and laws which Jehovah has set between Himself and the children of Israel on Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.

Behold, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil;

I call Heaven and earth to bear witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that both you and your seed may live;

Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse:

and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of Jehovah your God, but turn aside from the way which I am commanding you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.

And Moses, with the elders of Israel, commanded the people, saying: Keep all the commandments which I am commanding you today.

And you shall write on them all the Words of this Law, when you have crossed over, that you may enter the land which Jehovah your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, just as Jehovah the God of your fathers has promised you.

And there you shall build an altar unto Jehovah your God, an altar of stones; you shall not use an iron tool on them.

You shall offer peace offerings, and shall eat there, and rejoice before Jehovah your God.

And Moses and the priests, the Levites, spoke to all Israel, saying, Be silent and listen, O Israel: This day you have become the people of Jehovah your God.

And Moses charged the people on the same day, saying,

and these shall stand on Mount Ebal to curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

Cursed is the one who makes a graven or molten image, an abomination to Jehovah, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen!

Cursed is the one who moves his neighbor's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen!

Cursed is the one who perverts the justice due the sojourner, the fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen!

Cursed is the one who lies with any kind of animal. And all the people shall say, Amen!

Cursed is the one who lies with his mother-in-law. And all the people shall say, Amen!

Cursed is the one who takes a bribe to strike the blood of an innocent soul. And all the people shall say, Amen!

so that there not be among you man or woman or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from Jehovah our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations, and that there not be among you a root bearing venom or bitterness;

Jehovah will not consent to forgive him; for then the anger of Jehovah and His jealousy shall smoke against that man, and every curse that is written in this book shall lie down upon him, and Jehovah shall blot out his name from under the heavens.

so that your children of the generations to come, who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a distant land, when they see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses which Jehovah has laid upon it, shall utter:

You shall not make idols for yourselves; neither a carved image nor a sacred pillar shall you rear up for yourselves; nor shall you set up an image of stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am Jehovah your God.

If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and do them,

Your threshing shall last till the time of vintage, and the vintage shall last till the time of sowing; you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you.

For I will look on you favorably and make you fruitful, multiply you and establish My covenant with you.

I will set My tabernacle among you, and My soul shall not abhor you.

I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves; I have broken the bands of your yoke and made you walk upright.

and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not do all My commandments, but break My covenant,

I will set My face against you, and you shall be smitten by your enemies. Those who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you.

I will break the pride of your power; I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.

And if you walk contrary to Me, and are not willing to obey Me, I will bring upon you seven times more plagues, according to your sins.

And if by these things you do not let yourselves be corrected by Me, but walk contrary to Me,

And I will bring a sword against you that shall execute the vengeance of the covenant; when you are gathered together within your cities I will send pestilence among you; and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

And after all this, if you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me,

And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.

And I will lay your cities waste and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell your soothing aromas.

I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you; your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.

As long as it lies desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest on your sabbaths when you dwelt in it.

They shall stumble over one another, as it were before a sword, when no one is pursuing; and you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

And those of you who are left shall rot away in their iniquity in the lands of their enemies; also in their fathers' iniquities, which are with them, they shall rot away.

and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they accept their guilt;

The land also shall be forsaken by them, and shall be satisfied with its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; they shall accept their guilt, because they had despised My judgments and because their soul had abhorred My statutes.

But for their sake I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the eyes of the nations, that I might be their God: I am Jehovah.

But from there you will seek Jehovah your God, and you shall find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

yet when they have returned in their minds in the land where they have been carried captive, and have repented in their hearts, and made supplication to You in the land of those holding them captive, saying, We have sinned and done perversely, we have committed wickedness;

and when they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who have taken them captive, and have prayed to You toward their land which You have given to their fathers, the city which You have chosen and the house which I have built for Your name:

Remember this, and be a man; refresh the memory of your heart, you who rebel.

Because he considers and turns away from all the transgressions which he had done, he shall live life; he shall not die.

But when he came to himself, he said, How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger.

Behold, You have driven me out this day from the face of the ground; I shall be hidden from Your face; I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth, and it will happen that anyone who finds me will kill me.

And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the rest of those who remain of this evil family, who remain in all the places where I have driven them, says Jehovah of Hosts.