Deuteronomy 4:30

4:30 In your distress when all these things happen to you in the latter days, ¹  if you return to the Lord your God and obey him ² 

Deuteronomy 8:16

8:16 fed you in the desert with manna (which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you ³  and eventually bring good to you.

Deuteronomy 11:12

11:12 a land the Lord your God looks after. ⁴  He is constantly attentive to it ⁵  from the beginning to the end of the year. ⁶ 

Deuteronomy 32:20

32:20 He said, “I will reject them, ⁷ 

I will see what will happen to them;

for they are a perverse generation,

children ⁸  who show no loyalty.

[4:30]  ¹ sn The phrase is not used here in a technical sense for the eschaton, but rather refers to a future time when Israel will be punished for its sin and experience exile. See Deut 31:29.

[4:30]  ² tn Heb “hear his voice.” The expression is an idiom meaning “obey,” occurring in Deut 8:20; 9:23; 13:18; 21:18, 20; 26:14, 17; 27:10; 28:1-2, 15, 45, 62; 30:2, 8, 10, 20.

[8:16]  ³ tn Heb “in order to humble you and in order to test you.” See 8:2.

[11:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “seeks.” The statement reflects the ancient belief that God (Baal in Canaanite thinking) directly controlled storms and rainfall.

[11:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “the eyes of the Lord your God are continually on it” (so NIV); NASB, NRSV “always on it.”

[11:12]  ⁷ sn From the beginning to the end of the year. This refers to the agricultural year that was marked by the onset of the heavy rains, thus the autumn. See note on the phrase “the former and the latter rains” in v. 14.

[32:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “I will hide my face from them.”

[32:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “sons” (so NAB, NASB); TEV “unfaithful people.”