I will personally hold responsible anyone who then pays no attention to the words that prophet speaks in my name.

then both parties to the controversy must stand before the Lord, that is, before the priests and judges who will be in office in those days.

so that they cannot teach you all the abhorrent ways they worship their gods, causing you to sin against the Lord your God.

You will celebrate all the good things that the Lord your God has given you and your family, along with the Levites and the resident foreigners among you.

You will then eat your own offspring, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege by which your enemies will constrict you.

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.

but with whoever stands with us here today before the Lord our God as well as those not with us here today.

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.

You replied to me that what I had said to you was good.

Therefore, you remained at Kadesh for a long time – indeed, for the full time.

We kept only the livestock and plunder from the cities for ourselves.

This is the law that Moses set before the Israelites.

These are the ones you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,

You must not erect a sacred pillar, a thing the Lord your God detests.

and in the desert, where you saw him carrying you along like a man carries his son. This he did everywhere you went until you came to this very place.”

From Aroer, which is at the edge of Wadi Arnon (it is the city in the wadi), all the way to Gilead there was not a town able to resist us – the Lord our God gave them all to us.

You must fight until the Lord gives your countrymen victory as he did you and they take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving them on the other side of the Jordan River. Then each of you may return to his own territory that I have given you.”

Keep his statutes and commandments that I am setting forth today so that it may go well with you and your descendants and that you may enjoy longevity in the land that the Lord your God is about to give you as a permanent possession.

houses filled with choice things you did not accumulate, hewn out cisterns you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant – and you eat your fill,

the great judgments you saw, the signs and wonders, the strength and power by which he brought you out – thus the Lord your God will do to all the people you fear.