and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all
the day long; and there shall be no might in thine hand.
05:028:033 The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation
which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only
oppressed and crushed alway:
05:028:034 So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which
thou shalt see.
05:028:035 The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with
a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot
unto the top of thy head.
05:028:036 The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set
over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers
have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and
stone.
05:028:037 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a
byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
05:028:038 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt
gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.
05:028:039 Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither
drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall
eat them.
05:028:040 Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but
thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive
shall cast his fruit.
05:028:041 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy
them; for they shall go into captivity.
05:028:042 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.
05:028:043 The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very
high; and thou shalt come down very low.
05:028:044 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he
shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
05:028:045 Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall
pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed;
because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy
God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he
commanded thee:
05:028:046 And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and
upon thy seed for ever.
05:028:047 Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness,
and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
05:028:048 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall
send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness,
and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron
upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
05:028:049 The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the
end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose
tongue thou shalt not understand;
05:028:050 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the
person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:
05:028:051 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy
land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee
either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or
flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.
05:028:052 And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and
fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all
thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates
throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given
thee.
05:028:053 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of
thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath
given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith
thine enemies shall distress thee:
05:028:054 So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate,
his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife
of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he
shall leave:
05:028:055 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his
children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him
in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies
shall distress thee in all thy gates.
05:028:056 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not
adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for
delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the
husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her
daughter,
05:028:057 And toward her young one that cometh out from between her
feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she
shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege
and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in
thy gates.
05:028:058 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that
are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious
and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD;
05:028:059 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues
of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and
sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
05:028:060 Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt,
which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.
05:028:061 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.
05:028:062 And ye shall 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.
05:028:063 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.
05:028:064 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.
05:028:065 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 sorrow of
mind:
05:028:066 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt
fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:
05:028:067 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 for the sight of
thine eyes which thou shalt see.
05:028:068 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.
05:029:001 These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded
Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab,
beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
05:029:002 And Moses called unto all Israel, 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;
05:029:003 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs,
and those great miracles:
05:029:004 Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes
to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
05:029:005 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.
05:029:006 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong
drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.
05:029:007 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon,
and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle,
and we smote them:
05:029:008 And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto
the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of
Manasseh.
05:029:009 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that
ye may prosper in all that ye do.
05:029:010 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,
05:029:011 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:
05:029:012 That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God,
and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee
this day:
05:029:013 That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself,
and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee,
and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac,
and to Jacob.
05:029:014 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
05:029:015 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:
05:029:016 (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how
we came through the nations which ye passed by;
05:029:017 And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and
stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)
05:029:018 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or
tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our
God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there
should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
05:029:019 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:
05:029:020 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.
05:029:021 And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the
tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant
that are written in this book of the law:
05:029:022 So that the generation to come of your children that shall
rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far
land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and
the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;
05:029:023 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and
burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass
groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah,
Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and
in his wrath:
05:029:024 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus
unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
05:029:025 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:
05:029:026 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods
whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:
05:029:027 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to
bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:
05:029:028 And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in
wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another
land, as it is this day.
05:029:029 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those
things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children
for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
05:030:001 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon
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,
05:030:002 And shalt return unto the LORD 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;
05:030:003 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.
05:030:004 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:
05:030:005 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.
05:030:006 And the LORD thy God will circumcise 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.
05:030:007 And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine
enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.
05:030:008 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do
all his commandments which I command thee this day.
05:030:009 And the LORD thy God will make 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 good, as he rejoiced over thy
fathers:
05:030:010 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.
05:030:011 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not
hidden from thee, neither is it far off.
05:030:012 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?
05:030:013 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who
shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we
may hear it, and do it?
05:030:014 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy
heart, that thou mayest do it.
05:030:015 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death
and evil;
05:030:016 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to
walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his
statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and
multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land
whither thou goest to possess it.
05:030:017 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but
shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
05:030:018 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.
05:030:019 I 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:
05:030:020 That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest
obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he
is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest
dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
05:031:001 And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel.
05:031:002 And he said unto them, I am an 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.
05:031:003 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, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD
hath said.
05:031:004 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.
05:031:005 And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may
do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have
commanded you.
05:031:006 Be strong and of a good courage, 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, nor forsake thee.
05:031:007 And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight
of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must
go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn
unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to
inherit it.
05:031:008 And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be
with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear
not, neither be dismayed.
05:031:009 And Moses wrote this law, and 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.
05:031:010 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,
05:031:011 When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in
the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law
before all Israel in their hearing.
05:031:012 Gather the people together, men 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:
05:031:013 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.
05:031:014 And the LORD said unto Moses, 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.
05:031:015 And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a
cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the
tabernacle.
05:031:016 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 forsake me, and break my covenant
which I have made with them.
05:031:017 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?
05:031:018 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.
05:031:019 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.
05:031:020 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware
unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they
shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then
will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke
me, and break my covenant.
05:031:021 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are
befallen them, that this song shall testify 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 about,
even now, before I have brought them into the land which I
sware.
05:031:022 Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it
the children of Israel.
05:031:023 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be
strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the
children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and
I will be with thee.
05:031:024 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the
words of this law in a book, until they were finished,
05:031:025 That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the
covenant of the LORD, saying,
05:031:026 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark
of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for
a witness against thee.
05:031:027 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I
am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious
against the LORD; and how much more after my death?
05:031:028 Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your
officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call
heaven and earth to record against them.
05:031:029 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; because ye
will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger
through the work of your hands.
05:031:030 And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel
the words of this song, until they were ended.
05:032:001 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth,
the words of my mouth.
05:032:002 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 upon the grass:
05:032:003 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye
greatness unto our God.
05:032:004 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.
05:032:005 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of
his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
05:032:006 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is
not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made
thee, and established thee?
05:032:007 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many
generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy
elders, and they will tell thee.
05:032:008 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.
05:032:009 For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his
inheritance.
05:032:010 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling
wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him
as the apple of his eye.
05:032:011 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young,
spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her
wings:
05:032:012 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god
with him.
05:032:013 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;
05:032:014 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams
of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of
wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
05:032:015 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou
art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he
forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of
his salvation.
05:032:016 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with
abominations provoked they him to anger.
05:032:017 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they
knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers
feared not.
05:032:018 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast
forgotten God that formed thee.
05:032:019 And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the
provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
05:032:020 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.
05:032:021 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.
05:032:022 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the
lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase,
and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
05:032:023 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon
them.
05:032:024 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning
heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth
of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
05:032:025 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the
young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of
gray hairs.
05:032:026 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the
remembrance of them to cease from among men:
05:032:027 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.
05:032:028 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any
understanding in them.
05:032:029 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they
would consider their latter end!