Chapter 30
1 It shall happen , when all these things have come on you , the blessing and the curse , which I have set before you , and you shall call them to mind amongst all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you ,
2 and return to the LORD your God and obey his voice according to all that I command you today , you and your children , with all your heart and with all your soul ,
3 that then the LORD your God will release you from captivity , have compassion on you , and will return and gather you from all the peoples where the LORD your God has scattered you .
4 If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens , from there the LORD your God will gather you , and from there he will bring you back .
5 The LORD your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed , and you will possess it . He will do you good , and increase your numbers more than your fathers.
6 The LORD your God will circumcise your heart , and the heart of your offspring , to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul , that you may live .
7 The LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you , who persecuted you .
8 You shall return and obey the LORD ’s voice , and do all his commandments which I command you today .
9 The LORD your God will make you prosperous in all the work of your hand , in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good ; for the LORD will again rejoice over you for good , as he rejoiced over your fathers,
10 if you will obey the LORD your God ’s voice , to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law , if you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul .
11 For this commandment which I command you today is not too hard for you or too distant .
12 It is not in heaven , that you should say, " Who will go up for us to heaven , bring it to us , and proclaim it to us , that we may do it ?"
13 Neither is it beyond the sea , that you should say, " Who will go over the sea for us , bring it to us , and proclaim it to us , that we may do it ?"
14 But the word is very near to you , in your mouth and in your heart , that you may do it .
15 Behold , I have set before you today life and prosperity , and death and evil .
16 For I command you today to love the LORD your God , to walk in his ways and to keep his commandments , his statutes , and his ordinances , that you may live and multiply , and that the LORD your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it .
17 But if your heart turns away , and you will not hear , but are drawn away and worship other gods, and serve them ,
18 I declare to you today that you will surely perish . You will not prolong your days in the land where you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it .
19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death , the blessing and the curse . Therefore choose life , that you may live , you and your descendants ,
20 to love the LORD your God , to obey his voice , and to cling to him ; for he is your life , and the length of your days , that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac , and to Jacob , to give them .