But all the livestock and plunder from the cities we kept for ourselves.

You were not willing to go up, however, but instead rebelled against the Lord your God. ¹ 

However, if you ¹  turn aside and do not obey, but are lured away to worship and serve other gods,

You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape ¹  her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.

But if the accusation is true and the young woman was not a virgin,

but I show covenant faithfulness ¹  to the thousands ²  who choose ³  me and keep my commandments.

For the Lord your God will bless you just as he has promised; you will lend to many nations but will not borrow from any, and you will rule over many nations but they will not rule over you.

But how can I alone bear up under the burden of your hardship and strife?

You will bear sons and daughters but not keep them, because they will be taken into captivity.

But as for you, ¹  turn back and head for the desert by the way to the Red Sea.” ² 

Then you came back and wept before the Lord, but he ¹  paid no attention to you whatsoever. ² 

You may exact payment from a foreigner, but whatever your fellow Israelite ¹  owes you, you must remit.

But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, forcing us to do burdensome labor.

“You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it.

but who pays back those who hate ¹  him as they deserve and destroys them. He will not ignore ²  those who hate him but will repay them as they deserve!

But to this very day the Lord has not given you an understanding mind, perceptive eyes, or discerning ears! ¹ 

He ¹  did not make this covenant with our ancestors ²  but with us, we who are here today, all of us living now.

If it does not accept terms of peace but makes war with you, then you are to lay siege to it.

So I must die here in this land; I will not cross the Jordan. But you are going over and will possess that ¹  good land.

But you who remained faithful to the Lord your God are still alive to this very day, every one of you.