Deuteronomy 28:64   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

Then the Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods-gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.

Deuteronomy 28:65   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart.

Deuteronomy 28:66   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life.

Deuteronomy 28:67   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

In the morning you will say, "If only it were evening!" and in the evening, "If only it were morning!"-because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see.

Deuteronomy 28:68   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

The Lord will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again. There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.

Deuteronomy 29:2   (Read all of Deuteronomy 29)

Moses summoned all the Israelites and said to them: Your eyes have seen all that the Lord did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials and to all his land.

Deuteronomy 29:3   (Read all of Deuteronomy 29)

With your own eyes you saw those great trials, those signs and great wonders.

Deuteronomy 29:4   (Read all of Deuteronomy 29)

But to this day the Lord has not given you a mind that understands or eyes that see or ears that hear.

Deuteronomy 29:5   (Read all of Deuteronomy 29)

Yet the Lord says, "During the forty years that I led you through the wilderness, your clothes did not wear out, nor did the sandals on your feet.

Deuteronomy 29:6   (Read all of Deuteronomy 29)

You ate no bread and drank no wine or other fermented drink. I did this so that you might know that I am the Lord your God."

Deuteronomy 29:7   (Read all of Deuteronomy 29)

When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out to fight against us, but we defeated them.

Deuteronomy 29:9   (Read all of Deuteronomy 29)

Carefully follow the terms of this covenant, so that you may prosper in everything you do.

Deuteronomy 29:10   (Read all of Deuteronomy 29)

All of you are standing today in the presence of the Lord your God-your leaders and chief men, your elders and officials, and all the other men of Israel,

Deuteronomy 29:11   (Read all of Deuteronomy 29)

together with your children and your wives, and the foreigners living in your camps who chop your wood and carry your water.

Deuteronomy 29:12   (Read all of Deuteronomy 29)

You are standing here in order to enter into a covenant with the Lord your God, a covenant the Lord is making with you this day and sealing with an oath,

Deuteronomy 29:13   (Read all of Deuteronomy 29)

to confirm you this day as his people, that he may be your God as he promised you and as he swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Deuteronomy 29:14   (Read all of Deuteronomy 29)

I am making this covenant, with its oath, not only with you

Deuteronomy 29:16   (Read all of Deuteronomy 29)

You yourselves know how we lived in Egypt and how we passed through the countries on the way here.

Deuteronomy 29:17   (Read all of Deuteronomy 29)

You saw among them their detestable images and idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold.

Deuteronomy 29:18   (Read all of Deuteronomy 29)

Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the Lord our God to go and worship the gods of those nations; make sure there is no root among you that produces such bitter poison.

Deuteronomy 29:22   (Read all of Deuteronomy 29)

Your children who follow you in later generations and foreigners who come from distant lands will see the calamities that have fallen on the land and the diseases with which the Lord has afflicted it.

Deuteronomy 30:1   (Read all of Deuteronomy 30)

When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come on you and you take them to heart wherever the Lord your God disperses you among the nations,

Deuteronomy 30:2   (Read all of Deuteronomy 30)

and when you and your children return to the Lord your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything I command you today,

Deuteronomy 30:3   (Read all of Deuteronomy 30)

then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you.