Deuteronomy 29:18-28
29:18 Beware that the heart of no man, woman, clan, or tribe among you turns away from the
Lord our God today to pursue and serve the gods of those nations; beware that there is among you no root producing poisonous and bitter fruit.
29:19 When such a person
hears the words of this oath he secretly
blesses himself
and says, “I will have peace though I continue to walk with a stubborn spirit.”
This will destroy
the watered ground with the parched.
29:20 The
Lord will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger
will rage
against that man; all the curses
written in this scroll will fall upon him
and the
Lord will obliterate his name from memory.
29:21 The
Lord will single him out
for judgment
from all the tribes of Israel according to all the curses of the covenant written in this scroll of the law.
29:22 The generation to come – your descendants who will rise up after you, as well as the foreigner who will come from distant places – will see
the afflictions of that land and the illnesses that the
Lord has brought on it.
29:23 The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the
Lord destroyed in his intense anger.
29:24 Then all the nations will ask, “Why has the
Lord done all this to this land? What is this fierce, heated display of anger
all about?”
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.
29:27 That is why the
Lord’s anger erupted against this land, bringing on it all the curses
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 29:1
Narrative Interlude
29:1 (28:69) These are the words of the covenant that the Lord commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb.
Deuteronomy 12:25
12:25 You must not eat it so that it may go well with you and your children after you; you will be doing what is right in the
Lord’s sight.
John 3:19-21
3:19 Now this is the basis for judging:
that the light has come into the world and people
loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.
3:20 For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.
3:21 But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly evident that his deeds have been done in God.