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"And they will become a sign and a wonder against you and your descendants forever.

"Furthermore, it will eat the offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed; a nation that will leave you no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the newborn of your cattle or the young of your flock, until they have eliminated you.

"And He will bring back on you every disease of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you.

moreover, you have seen their abominations and their idols made of wood and stone, silver and gold, which they had with them);

"Now the future generation, your sons who rise up after you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land, when they see the plagues of that land and the diseases with which the LORD has afflicted it, will say,

'And they went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they have not known and whom He had not assigned to them.

"Assemble the people, the men, the women, the children, and the stranger who is in your town, so that they may hear and learn and fear the LORD your God, and be careful to follow all the words of this Law.

The LORD said to Moses, "Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers; and this people will arise and play the prostitute with the foreign gods of the land into the midst of which they are going, and they will abandon Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.

"Then My anger will be kindled against them on that day, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, and they will be consumed, and many evils and troubles will find them; so they will say on that day, 'Is it not because our God is not among us that these evils have found us?'

"For when I bring them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to their fathers, and they eat and are satisfied and become prosperous, then they will turn to other gods and serve them, and spurn Me and break My covenant.

"Then it will come about, when many evils and troubles find them, that this song will testify before them as a witness (for it shall not be forgotten from the mouth of their descendants); for I know their inclination which they are developing today, before I bring them into the land which I swore."

"They have acted corruptly against Him, They are not His children, because of their defect; But are a perverse and crooked generation.

"Remember the days of old, Consider the years of all generations. Ask your father and he will inform you, Your elders, and they will tell you.

'They will be wasted by famine, and emaciated by plague And a bitter epidemic; And the teeth of beasts I will send against them, With the venom of crawling things of the dust.

Had I not feared the provocation by the enemy, That their adversaries would misjudge, That they would say, "Our hand is triumphant, And the LORD has not performed all this."'

"For they are a nation destitute of counsel, And there is no understanding in them.

"If only they were wise and they understood this; If only they would discern their future!

"And He will say, 'Where are their gods, The rock in which they took refuge?

"Indeed, He loves the people; All Your holy ones are in Your hand, And they followed in Your steps; Everyone takes of Your words.

Who said of his father and his mother, 'I did not consider them'; And he did not acknowledge his brothers, Nor did he regard his own sons, For they kept Your word, And complied with Your covenant.