Berean Study Bible | English Standard Version |
1“When all these things come upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you, | 1“And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you, |
2and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today, | 2and return to the LORD your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul, |
3then He will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations to which the LORD your God has scattered you. | 3then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes and have mercy on you, and he will gather you again from all the peoples where the LORD your God has scattered you. |
4Even if you have been banished to the farthest horizon, He will gather you and return you from there. | 4If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there the LORD your God will gather you, and from there he will take you. |
5And the LORD your God will bring you into the land your fathers possessed, and you will take possession of it. He will cause you to prosper and multiply more than your fathers. | 5And the LORD your God will bring you into the land that your fathers possessed, that you may possess it. And he will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers. |
6The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live. | 6And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live. |
7Then the LORD your God will put all these curses upon your enemies who hate you and persecute you. | 7And the LORD your God will put all these curses on your foes and enemies who persecuted you. |
8And you will again obey the voice of the LORD and follow all His commandments I am giving you today. | 8And you shall again obey the voice of the LORD and keep all his commandments that I command you today. |
9So the LORD your God will make you abound in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land. Indeed, the LORD will again delight in your goodness, as He delighted in that of your fathers, | 9The LORD your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground. For the LORD will again take delight in prospering you, as he took delight in your fathers, |
10if you obey the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to Him with all your heart and with all your soul. | 10when you obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, when you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. |
11For this commandment I give you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. | 11“For this commandment that I command you today is not too hard for you, neither is it far off. |
12It is not in heaven, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will ascend into heaven to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’ | 12It is not in heaven, that you should say, ‘Who will ascend to heaven for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’ |
13And it is not beyond the sea, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will cross the sea to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’ | 13Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, ‘Who will go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’ |
14But the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may obey it. | 14But the word is very near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it. |
15See, I have set before you today life and goodness, as well as death and disaster. | 15“See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil. |
16For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess. | 16If you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you today, by loving the LORD your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. |
17But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, but are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, | 17But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, |
18I declare to you today that you will surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. | 18I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess. |
19I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live, | 19I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, |
20and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.” | 20loving the LORD your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.” |
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