Deuteronomy 4:26

4:26 I invoke heaven and earth as witnesses against you ¹  today that you will surely and swiftly be removed ²  from the very land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. You will not last long there because you will surely be ³  annihilated.

Deuteronomy 28:58-68

The Curse of Covenant Termination

28:58 “If you refuse to obey ⁴  all the words of this law, the things written in this scroll, and refuse to fear this glorious and awesome name, the Lord your God, 28:59 then the Lord will increase your punishments and those of your descendants – great and long-lasting afflictions and severe, enduring illnesses. 28:60 He will infect you with all the diseases of Egypt ⁵  that you dreaded, and they will persistently afflict you. ⁶  28:61 Moreover, the Lord will bring upon you every kind of sickness and plague not mentioned in this scroll of commandments, ⁷  until you have perished. 28:62 There will be very few of you left, though at one time you were as numerous as the stars in the sky, ⁸  because you will have disobeyed ⁹  the Lord your God. 28:63 This is what will happen: Just as the Lord delighted to do good for you and make you numerous, he ¹⁰  will take delight in destroying and decimating you. You will be uprooted from the land you are about to possess. 28:64 The Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of wood and stone. 28:65 Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the Lord will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair. 28:66 Your life will hang in doubt before you; you will be terrified by night and day and will have no certainty of surviving from one day to the next. ¹¹  28:67 In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ And in the evening you will say, ‘I wish it were morning!’ because of the things you will fear and the things you will see. 28:68 Then the Lord will make you return to Egypt by ship, over a route I said to you that you would never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”

Deuteronomy 29:25-28

29:25 Then people will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. 29:26 They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods they did not know and that he did not permit them to worship. ¹²  29:27 That is why the Lord’s anger erupted against this land, bringing on it all the curses ¹³  written in this scroll. 29:28 So the Lord has uprooted them from their land in anger, wrath, and great rage and has deported them to another land, as is clear today.”

Deuteronomy 30:18-19

30:18 I declare to you this very day that you will certainly ¹⁴  perish! You will not extend your time in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess. ¹⁵  30:19 Today I invoke heaven and earth as a witness against you that I have set life and death, blessing and curse, before you. Therefore choose life so that you and your descendants may live!

Joshua 23:13

23:13 know for certain that the Lord our God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. They will trap and ensnare you; ¹⁶  they will be a whip that tears ¹⁷  your sides and thorns that blind ¹⁸  your eyes until you disappear ¹⁹  from this good land the Lord your God gave you.

Joshua 23:1

Joshua Challenges Israel to be Faithful

23:1 A long time ²⁰  passed after the Lord made Israel secure from all their enemies, ²¹  and Joshua was very old. ²² 

Joshua 12:1

12:1 Now these are the kings of the land whom the Israelites defeated and drove from their land ²³  on the east side of the Jordan, ²⁴  from the Arnon Valley to Mount Hermon, including all the eastern Arabah:

Daniel 9:2

9:2 in the first year of his reign ²⁵  I, Daniel, came to understand from the sacred books ²⁶  that, according to the word of the LORD ²⁷  disclosed to the prophet Jeremiah, the years for the fulfilling of the desolation of Jerusalem ²⁸  were seventy in number.

Amos 3:2

3:2 “I have chosen ²⁹  you alone from all the clans of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all your sins.”

Zephaniah 1:18

1:18 Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them

in the day of the Lord’s angry judgment.

The whole earth ³⁰  will be consumed by his fiery wrath. ³¹ 

Indeed, ³²  he will bring terrifying destruction ³³  on all who live on the earth.” ³⁴ 

Zephaniah 3:6

The Lord’s Judgment will Purify

3:6 “I destroyed ³⁵  nations;

their walled cities ³⁶  are in ruins.

I turned their streets into ruins;

no one passes through them.

Their cities are desolate; ³⁷ 

no one lives there. ³⁸ 

Luke 12:47-48

12:47 That ³⁹  servant who knew his master’s will but did not get ready or do what his master asked ⁴⁰  will receive a severe beating. 12:48 But the one who did not know his master’s will ⁴¹  and did things worthy of punishment ⁴²  will receive a light beating. ⁴³  From everyone who has been given much, much will be required, ⁴⁴  and from the one who has been entrusted with much, ⁴⁵  even more will be asked. ⁴⁶ 

Luke 13:3

13:3 No, I tell you! But unless you repent, ⁴⁷  you will all perish as well! ⁴⁸ 

Luke 13:5

13:5 No, I tell you! But unless you repent ⁴⁹  you will all perish as well!” ⁵⁰ 

[4:26]  ¹ sn I invoke heaven and earth as witnesses against you. This stock formula introduces what is known form-critically as a רִיב (riv) or controversy pattern. It is commonly used in the ancient Near Eastern world in legal contexts and in the OT as a forensic or judicial device to draw attention to Israel’s violation of the Lord’s covenant with them (see Deut 30:19; Isa 1:2; 3:13; Jer 2:9). Since court proceedings required the testimony of witnesses, the Lord here summons heaven and earth (that is, all creation) to testify to his faithfulness, Israel’s disobedience, and the threat of judgment.

[4:26]  ² tn Or “be destroyed”; KJV “utterly perish”; NLT “will quickly disappear”; CEV “you won’t have long to live.”

[4:26]  ³ tn Or “be completely” (so NCV, TEV). It is not certain here if the infinitive absolute indicates the certainty of the following action (cf. NIV) or its degree.

[28:58]  ⁴ tn Heb “If you are not careful to do.”

[28:60]  ⁵ sn These are the plagues the Lord inflicted on the Egyptians prior to the exodus which, though they did not fall upon the Israelites, must have caused great terror (cf. Exod 15:26).

[28:60]  ⁶ tn Heb “will cling to you” (so NIV); NLT “will claim you.”

[28:61]  ⁷ tn The Hebrew term תּוֹרָה (torah) can refer either (1) to the whole Pentateuch or, more likely, (2) to the book of Deuteronomy or even (3) only to this curse section of the covenant text. “Scroll” better reflects the actual document, since “book” conveys the notion of a bound book with pages to the modern English reader. Cf. KJV, NASB, NRSV “the book of this law”; NIV, NLT “this Book of the Law”; TEV “this book of God’s laws and teachings.”

[28:62]  ⁸ tn Or “heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

[28:62]  ⁹ tn Heb “have not listened to the voice of.”

[28:63]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 28:8.

[28:66]  ¹¹ tn Heb “you will not be confident in your life.” The phrase “from one day to the next” is implied by the following verse.

[29:26]  ¹² tn Heb “did not assign to them”; NASB, NRSV “had not allotted to them.”

[29:27]  ¹³ tn Heb “the entire curse.”

[30:18]  ¹⁴ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “certainly.”

[30:18]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “to go there to possess it.”

[23:13]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “be a trap and a snare to you.”

[23:13]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “in.”

[23:13]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “thorns in your eyes.”

[23:13]  ¹⁹ tn Or “perish.”

[23:1]  ²⁰ tn Heb “many days.”

[23:1]  ²¹ tn Heb “the Lord had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around.”

[23:1]  ²² tn Heb “was old, coming into the days.” This expression, referring to advancing in years, also occurs in the following verse.

[12:1]  ²³ tn Heb “and took possession of their land.”

[12:1]  ²⁴ tn Heb “beyond the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun.”

[9:2]  ²⁵ tc This phrase, repeated from v. 1, is absent in Theodotion.

[9:2]  ²⁶ tn The Hebrew text has “books”; the word “sacred” has been added in the translation to clarify that it is Scriptures that are referred to.

[9:2]  ²⁷ sn The tetragrammaton (the four Hebrew letters which constitute the divine Name, YHWH) appears eight times in this chapter, and nowhere else in the book of Daniel.

[9:2]  ²⁸ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[3:2]  ²⁹ tn Heb “You only have I known.” The Hebrew verb יָדַע (yada’) is used here in its covenantal sense of “recognize in a special way.”

[1:18]  ³⁰ tn Or “land” (cf. NEB). This same word also occurs at the end of the present verse.

[1:18]  ³¹ tn Or “passion”; traditionally, “jealousy.”

[1:18]  ³² tn Or “for.”

[1:18]  ³³ tn Heb “complete destruction, even terror, he will make.”

[1:18]  ³⁴ tn It is not certain where the Lord’s words end and the prophet’s words begin. It is possible that Zephaniah begins speaking in the middle of v. 17 or at the beginning of v. 18 (note the third person pronouns referring to the Lord).

[3:6]  ³⁵ tn Heb “cut off.”

[3:6]  ³⁶ tn Heb “corner towers”; NEB, NRSV “battlements.”

[3:6]  ³⁷ tn This Hebrew verb (צָדָה, tsadah) occurs only here in the OT, but its meaning is established from the context and from an Aramaic cognate.

[3:6]  ³⁸ tn Heb “so that there is no man, without inhabitant.”

[12:47]  ³⁹ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[12:47]  ⁴⁰ tn Grk “or do according to his will”; the referent (the master) has been specified in the translation for clarity. This example deals with the slave who knew what the command was and yet failed to complete it.

[12:48]  ⁴¹ tn Grk “did not know”; the phrase “his master’s will” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. Direct objects were frequently omitted in Greek when clear from the context, but must be supplied for the contemporary English reader.

[12:48]  ⁴² tn Grk “blows.”

[12:48]  ⁴³ tn Grk “will receive few (blows).”

[12:48]  ⁴⁴ tn Grk “required from him”; but the words “from him” are redundant in English and have not been translated.

[12:48]  ⁴⁵ sn Entrusted with much. To be gifted with precious responsibility is something that requires faithfulness.

[12:48]  ⁴⁶ tn Grk “they will ask even more.”

[13:3]  ⁴⁷ sn Jesus was stressing that all stand at risk of death, if they do not repent and receive life.

[13:3]  ⁴⁸ tn Or “you will all likewise perish,” but this could be misunderstood to mean that they would perish by the same means as the Galileans. Jesus’ point is that apart from repentance all will perish.

[13:5]  ⁴⁹ sn Jesus’ point repeats v. 3. The circumstances make no difference. All must deal with the reality of what death means.

[13:5]  ⁵⁰ tn Grk “similarly.”