I wish that they were wise and could understand this, and that they could comprehend what will happen to them.”

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

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

a land the Lord your God looks after. He is constantly attentive to it from the beginning to the end of the year.

He said, “I will reject them, I will see what will happen to them; for they are a perverse generation, children who show no loyalty.

For I know that after I die you will totally corrupt yourselves and turn away from the path I have commanded you to walk. Disaster will confront you in the days to come because you will act wickedly before the Lord, inciting him to anger because of your actions.”