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30 Þegar allt þetta, blessunin og bölvunin, sem ég hefi lagt fyrir þig í dag, kemur fram við þig, og þú hugfestir það meðal allra þeirra þjóða, er Drottinn Guð þinn rekur þig til,

og þú snýr þér aftur til Drottins Guðs þíns og hlýðir raustu hans í öllu, sem ég býð þér í dag, bæði þú og börn þín, af öllu hjarta þínu og af allri sálu þinni,

þá mun Drottinn Guð þinn snúa við högum þínum og miskunna þér og safna þér aftur saman frá öllum þjóðum, þeim er Drottinn Guð þinn hefir dreift þér á meðal.

Þótt þínir brottreknu væru yst við skaut himins, þá mun Drottinn Guð þinn saman safna þér þaðan og sækja þig þangað.

Og Drottinn Guð þinn mun leiða þig inn í landið, sem feður þínir áttu, og þú skalt taka það til eignar, og hann mun gjöra enn betur til þín og fjölga þér enn meir en feðrum þínum.

Drottinn Guð þinn mun umskera hjarta þitt og hjarta niðja þinna, svo að þú elskir Drottin Guð þinn af öllu hjarta þínu og af allri sálu þinni, til þess að þú megir lifa.

Og Drottinn Guð þinn mun láta allar þessar bölvanir bitna á óvinum þínum og fjendum, þeim er hafa ofsótt þig.

En þú munt aftur hlýða raustu Drottins og halda allar skipanir hans, þær er ég legg fyrir þig í dag.

Drottinn Guð þinn mun veita þér gnægð gæða í öllu, sem þú tekur þér fyrir hendur, í ávexti kviðar þíns og í ávexti fénaðar þíns og í ávexti lands þíns, því að Drottinn mun aftur gleðjast yfir þér, þér til heilla, eins og hann gladdist yfir feðrum þínum,

10 ef þú hlýðir raustu Drottins Guðs þíns og varðveitir skipanir hans og lög, sem rituð eru í þessari lögmálsbók, ef þú snýr þér til Drottins Guðs þíns af öllu hjarta þínu og af allri sálu þinni.

11 Þetta boðorð, sem ég legg fyrir þig í dag, er þér eigi um megn, og það er eigi fjarlægt þér.

12 Ekki er það uppi í himninum, svo að þú þurfir að segja: "Hver ætli fari fyrir oss upp í himininn og sæki það handa oss og kunngjöri oss það, svo að vér megum breyta eftir því?"

13 Og það er eigi hinumegin hafsins, svo að þú þurfir að segja: "Hver ætli fari fyrir oss yfir hafið og sæki það handa oss og kunngjöri oss það, svo að vér megum breyta eftir því?"

14 Heldur er orðið harla nærri þér, í munni þínum og hjarta þínu, svo að þú getur breytt eftir því.

15 Sjá, ég hefi í dag lagt fyrir þig líf og heill, dauða og óheill.

16 Ef þú hlýðir skipunum Drottins Guðs þíns, þeim er ég legg fyrir þig í dag, að elska Drottin Guð þinn, ganga á hans vegum og varðveita skipanir hans, lög og ákvæði, þá munt þú lifa og margfaldast, og Drottinn Guð þinn mun blessa þig í landi því, er þú heldur nú inn í til þess að taka það til eignar.

17 En ef hjarta þitt gjörist fráhverft og þú verður óhlýðinn og lætur tælast til að falla fram fyrir öðrum guðum og dýrka þá,

18 þá boða ég yður í dag, að þér munuð gjörsamlega farast. Þér munuð þá eigi lifa mörg árin í landi því, er þér haldið nú inn í yfir Jórdan til þess að taka það til eignar.

19 Ég kveð í dag bæði himin og jörð til vitnis móti yður, að ég hefi lagt fyrir þig lífið og dauðann, blessunina og bölvunina. Veldu þá lífið, til þess að þú og niðjar þínir megi lifa,

20 með því að elska Drottin Guð þinn, hlýða raustu hans og halda þér fast við hann, því að undir því er líf þitt komið og langgæður aldur þinn, svo að þú megir búa í landinu, sem Drottinn sór feðrum þínum, Abraham, Ísak og Jakob, að gefa þeim.

Prosperity After Turning to the Lord

30 When all these blessings and curses(A) I have set before you come on you and you take them to heart wherever the Lord your God disperses you among the nations,(B) and when you and your children return(C) to the Lord your God and obey him with all your heart(D) and with all your soul according to everything I command you today, then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes[a](E) and have compassion(F) on you and gather(G) you again from all the nations where he scattered(H) you.(I) Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens,(J) from there the Lord your God will gather(K) you and bring you back.(L) He will bring(M) you to the land that belonged to your ancestors, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous(N) than your ancestors. The Lord your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants,(O) so that you may love(P) him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live. The Lord your God will put all these curses(Q) on your enemies who hate and persecute you.(R) You will again obey the Lord and follow all his commands I am giving you today. Then the Lord your God will make you most prosperous in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your land.(S) The Lord will again delight(T) in you and make you prosperous, just as he delighted in your ancestors, 10 if you obey the Lord your God and keep his commands and decrees that are written in this Book of the Law(U) and turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.(V)

The Offer of Life or Death

11 Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.(W) 12 It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, “Who will ascend into heaven(X) to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?”(Y) 13 Nor is it beyond the sea,(Z) so that you have to ask, “Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?”(AA) 14 No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it.(AB)

15 See, I set before you today life(AC) and prosperity,(AD) death(AE) and destruction.(AF) 16 For I command you today to love(AG) the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live(AH) and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.

17 But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, 18 I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed.(AI) You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.

19 This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you(AJ) that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses.(AK) Now choose life, so that you and your children may live 20 and that you may love(AL) the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life,(AM) and he will give(AN) you many years in the land(AO) he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 30:3 Or will bring you back from captivity

30 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath driven thee,

And shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;

That then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee.

If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the Lord thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:

And the Lord thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.

And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

And the Lord thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.

And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the Lord, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day.

And the Lord thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the Lord will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:

10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.

12 It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?

13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?

14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.

15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;

16 In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

17 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

18 I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.

19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

20 That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.