Study Desk

You will have to feel for your way at noon, as the blind man feels his way in darkness. And your way will not go well. It will be made hard for you, and you will always be robbed. There will be no one to save you.

The most gentle man among you will be against his brother, the wife he loves, and the children he still has.

He will not give them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because it is all he has left for himself. This is how bad the trouble will be that those who hate you will bring to all your towns.

Moses called all Israel and said to them, "You have seen all the Lord did in front of you in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and all his servants and all his land.

You are here to take part in the agreement with the Lord your God, and in His promise which the Lord your God is making with you today.

So today He will make you His people. He will be your God, just as He told you and as He promised your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

When one hears the words of this curse, he will say in his pride, ‘I have peace even though I am strong-willed in my heart.' This will destroy the land that is watered along with the dry land.

The Lord will never be willing to forgive him. But the Lord will be jealous and His anger will burn against that man. Every curse written in this book will be upon him. And the Lord will take out his name from under heaven.

‘The whole land is sulphur and salt, a burning waste, not planted and not giving any plants, and no grass grows in it. It is like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in His anger.'

You will obey the Lord again, and keep all His Laws which I tell you today.

But you must obey the Lord your God to keep His Laws which are written in this book of the Law. You must turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and soul.

I tell you today to love the Lord your God. Walk in His ways. Keep all His Laws and all that He has decided. Then you will live and become many. And the Lord your God will bring good to you in the land you are going in to take.

Love the Lord your God and obey His voice. Hold on to Him. For He is your life, and by Him your days will be long. You will be allowed to live in the land the Lord promised to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob."

The Rock! His work is perfect. All His ways are right and fair. A God Who is faithful and without sin, right and good is He.

They have acted in sin toward Him, but they are not His children, because the mark of sin is on them. They are a bad and sinful people.

For the Lord's share is His people. He chose the people of Jacob for Himself.

He found him in a desert land, in the empty waste of a desert. He came around him and cared for him. He kept him as He would His own eye.

Like an eagle that shakes its nest, that flies over its young, He spread His wings and caught them. He carried them on His wings.

"But Jeshurun grew fat and would not obey. You became fat and full of food. Then he turned away from God Who made him. He hated the Rock of His saving power.

"The Lord saw this, and hated them. His sons and daughters made Him angry.