Study Desk

“But if you do not obey the Lord your God by carefully following all his commands and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come and overtake you:

The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not enjoy its fruit.

Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away from you and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will help you.

Your sons and daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes grow weary looking for them every day. But you will be powerless to do anything.

“You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because locusts will devour it.

You will plant and cultivate vineyards but not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.

You will have olive trees throughout your territory but not moisten your skin with oil, because your olives will drop off.

You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will be taken prisoner.

He will lend to you, but you won’t lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.

The Lord will take you back in ships to Egypt by a route that I said you would never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”

When you reached this place, King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out against us in battle, but we defeated them.

but also with those who are standing here with us today in the presence of the Lord our God and with those who are not here today.

The hidden things belong to the Lord our God, but the revealed things belong to us and our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.

But the message is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may follow it.

But if your heart turns away and you do not listen and you are led astray to bow in worship to other gods and serve them,

But the Lord’s portion is his people,Jacob, his own inheritance.

But their “rock” is not like our Rock,as even our enemies concede.

See now that I alone am he;there is no God but me.I bring death and I give life;I wound and I heal.No one can rescue anyone from my power.

For they are not meaningless words to you but they are your life, and by them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”