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Deuteronomy 30:7Yahweh your God will put all these curses on your enemies, and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.Deuteronomy 30:8You shall return and obey the voice of Yahweh, and do all his commandments which I command you this day.Deuteronomy 30:9Yahweh your God will make you plenteous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good: for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers;Deuteronomy 30:10if you shall obey the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.Deuteronomy 31:16Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.Deuteronomy 31:17Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’Deuteronomy 31:18I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they shall have worked, in that they are turned to other gods.Deuteronomy 31:19“Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.Deuteronomy 31:20For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.Deuteronomy 31:21It shall happen, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song shall testify before them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they frame this day, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.”Deuteronomy 31:22So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.Deuteronomy 31:23He commissioned Joshua the son of Nun, and said, “Be strong and courageous; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them: and I will be with you.”Deuteronomy 31:24It happened, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,Deuteronomy 31:25that Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, saying,Deuteronomy 31:26“Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.Deuteronomy 31:27For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious against Yahweh; and how much more after my death?Deuteronomy 31:28Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.Deuteronomy 31:29For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days; because you will do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.”Deuteronomy 31:30Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished.Deuteronomy 32:5They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.Deuteronomy 32:6Do you thus requite Yahweh, foolish people and unwise? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you, and established you.Deuteronomy 32:15But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.Deuteronomy 32:16They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations.Deuteronomy 32:17They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods that they didn’t know, to new gods that came up recently, which your fathers didn’t dread.Deuteronomy 32:18Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.Deuteronomy 32:19Yahweh saw and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.Deuteronomy 32:20He said, “I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end shall be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.Deuteronomy 32:21They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire is kindled in my anger, Burns to the lowest Sheol, Devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.Deuteronomy 32:23“I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.Deuteronomy 32:24They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.Deuteronomy 32:25Outside the sword shall bereave, and in the rooms, terror; on both young man and virgin, The nursing infant with the gray-haired man.Deuteronomy 32:26I said, I would scatter them afar. I would make their memory to cease from among men;Deuteronomy 32:27were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.’”Deuteronomy 32:28For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.Deuteronomy 32:29Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!Deuteronomy 32:30How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had delivered them up?Joshua 24:20If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good.”Joshua 24:21The people said to Joshua, “No; but we will serve Yahweh.”Joshua 24:22Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen Yahweh yourselves, to serve him.” They said, “We are witnesses.”Joshua 24:23“Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel.”Joshua 24:24The people said to Joshua, “We will serve Yahweh our God, and we will listen to his voice.”Joshua 24:25So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.Joshua 24:26Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Yahweh.Joshua 24:27Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it has heard all the words of Yahweh which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God.”Judges 2:12and they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them: and they provoked Yahweh to anger.Judges 10:12The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, oppressed you; and you cried to me, and I saved you out of their hand.Judges 10:13Yet you have forsaken me, and served other gods: therefore I will save you no more.Judges 10:14Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress!”1 Samuel 15:11“It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.1 Samuel 15:26Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you; for you have rejected the word of Yahweh, and Yahweh has rejected you from being king over Israel.”1 Samuel 15:27As Samuel turned about to go away, Saul grabbed the skirt of his robe, and it tore.1 Samuel 15:28Samuel said to him, “Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you.1 Kings 8:33“When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you in this house:1 Kings 8:34then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers.1 Kings 8:35“When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them:1 Kings 8:36then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.1 Kings 8:37“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;1 Kings 8:38whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:1 Kings 8:39then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men;)