Deuteronomy 29:14-24

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¹⁴ I am making this covenant,^(A) with its oath, not only with you ¹⁵ who are standing here with us today in the presence of the Lord our God but also with those who are not here today.^(B)

¹⁶ You yourselves know how we lived in Egypt and how we passed through the countries on the way here. ¹⁷ You saw among them their detestable images and idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold.^{(C) 18} Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns^(D) away from the Lord our God to go and worship the gods of those nations; make sure there is no root among you that produces such bitter poison.^(E)

¹⁹ When such a person hears the words of this oath and they invoke a blessing^(F) on themselves, thinking, “I will be safe, even though I persist in going my own way,”^(G) they will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry. ²⁰ The Lord will never be willing to forgive^(H) them; his wrath and zeal^(I) will burn^(J) against them. All the curses written in this book will fall on them, and the Lord will blot^(K) out their names from under heaven. ²¹ The Lord will single them out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster,^(L) according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.^(M)

²² Your children who follow you in later generations and foreigners who come from distant lands will see the calamities that have fallen on the land and the diseases with which the Lord has afflicted it.^{(N) 23} The whole land will be a burning waste^(O) of salt^(P) and sulfur—nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah,^(Q) Admah and Zeboyim, which the Lord overthrew in fierce anger.^{(R) 24} All the nations will ask: “Why has the Lord done this to this land?^(S) Why this fierce, burning anger?”