You approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, a mountain ablaze to the sky above it and yet dark with a thick cloud.

But to this very day the Lord has not given you an understanding mind, perceptive eyes, or discerning ears!

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.

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.