30:1 “So it will be when all of these things have come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have placed before you, and you ①call them to mind in all the nations where the LORD your God has scattered you,
▷ ①Lit return them to your heart
30:2 and you return to the LORD your God and ①obey Him with all your heart and soul in accordance with everything that I am commanding you today, you and your sons,
▷ ①Lit listen to His voice
30:3 then the LORD your God will restore ①you from captivity, and have compassion on you, and will gather you again from all the peoples where the LORD your God has scattered you.
▷ ①Lit your captivity
30:4 If any of your scattered countrymen are at the ①ends of the earth, from there the LORD your God will gather you, and from there He will ②bring you back.
▷ ①Lit end of the sky ②Lit take you
30:5 The LORD your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and He will be good to you and make you more numerous than your fathers.
30:6 “Moreover, the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the hearts of your ①descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and all your soul, so that you may live.
▷ ①Lit seed
30:7 And the LORD your God will ①inflict all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.
▷ ①Lit give
30:8 And you will again ①obey the LORD, and ②follow all His commandments which I am commanding you today.
▷ ①Lit listen to the voice of ②Lit perform
30:9 Then the LORD your God will prosper you ①abundantly in every work of your hand, in the ②children of your womb, the ③offspring of your cattle, and in the ④produce of your ground, for the LORD will again rejoice over you for good, just as He rejoiced over your fathers;
▷ ①Lit for good ②Lit fruit ③Lit fruit ④Lit fruit
30:10 ①if you ②obey the LORD your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this Book of the Law, ③if you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and soul.
▷ ①Or for you will ②Lit listen to the voice of ③Or for you will
30:11 “For this commandment which I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it far away.
30:12 It is not in heaven, ①that you could say, ‘Who will go up to heaven for us and get it for us, and proclaim it to us, so that we may ②follow it?’
▷ ①Lit to say ②Lit perform
30:13 Nor is it beyond the sea, ①that you could say, ‘Who will cross the sea for us and get it for us and proclaim it to us, so that we may ②follow it?’
▷ ①Lit to say ②Lit perform
30:14 On the contrary, the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may ①follow it.
▷ ①Lit perform
30:15 “See, I have placed before you today life and ①happiness, and death and ②adversity,
▷ ①Lit good ②Lit evil
30:16 in that I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, so that you may live and become numerous, and that the LORD your God may bless you in the land where you are entering to take possession of it.
30:17 But if your heart turns away and you will not obey, but allow yourself to be led astray and you worship other gods and serve them,
30:18 I declare to you today that you will certainly perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you are crossing the Jordan to enter ①and take possession of it.
▷ ①Lit to
30:19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have placed before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your ①descendants,
▷ ①Lit seed
30:20 by loving the LORD your God, by obeying His voice, and by holding close to Him; for ①this is your life and the length of your days, ②so that you may live in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.”
▷ ①Lit that ②Lit to dwell