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Restoration Promised

¹ "So it will be when all of these things have come upon you, ^(C1)the blessing and the curse which I have placed before you, and you ^(F1)call them to mind ^(C2)in all the nations where the LORD your God has scattered you,² and you ^(C1)return to the LORD your God and ^(F1)obey Him ^(C2)with all your heart and soul in accordance with everything that I am commanding you today, you and your sons,³ then the LORD your God will ^(C1)restore ^(F1)you from captivity, and have compassion on you, and ^(C2)will gather you again from all the peoples where the LORD your God has ^(C3)scattered you.⁴ "If any of your scattered countrymen are at the ^(F1)ends of the earth, ^(C1)from there the LORD your God will gather you, and from there He will ^(F2)bring you back.⁵ "^(C1)The LORD your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and He will be good to you and ^(C2)make you more numerous than your fathers.

⁶ "Moreover, ^(C1)the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the hearts of your ^(F1)descendants, ^(C2)to love the LORD your God with all your heart and all your soul, so that you may live.⁷ "^(C1)And the LORD your God will ^(F1)inflict all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.⁸ "And you will again ^(F1)obey the LORD, and ^(F2)follow all His commandments which I am commanding you today.⁹ "^(C1)Then the LORD your God will prosper you ^(F1)abundantly in every work of your hand, in the ^(F2)children of your womb, the ^(F2)offspring of your cattle, and in the ^(F2)produce of your ground, for ^(C2)the LORD will again rejoice over you for good, just as He rejoiced over your fathers;^10 (F1)if you ^(F2)obey the LORD your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which ^(C1)are written in this Book of the Law, ^(F1)if you turn to the LORD your God ^(C2)with all your heart and soul.

¹¹ "For this commandment which I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it far away.¹² "It is not in heaven, ^(F1)that you could say, '^(C1)Who will go up to heaven for us and get it for us, and proclaim it to us, so that we may ^(F2)follow it?'¹³ "Nor is it beyond the sea, ^(F1)that you could say, 'Who will cross the sea for us and get it for us and proclaim it to us, so that we may ^(F2)follow it?'¹⁴ "On the contrary, the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may ^(F1)follow it.

Choose Life

¹⁵ "See, ^(C1)I have placed before you today life and ^(F1)happiness, and death and ^(F2)adversity,¹⁶ in that I am commanding you today ^(C1)to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, so that you ^(C2)may live and become numerous, and that the LORD your God may bless you in the land where you are entering to take possession of it.¹⁷ "But if your heart turns away and you will not obey, but allow yourself to be led astray and you worship other gods and serve them,¹⁸ I declare to you today that ^(C1)you will certainly perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you are crossing the Jordan to enter ^(F1)and take possession of it.¹⁹ "^(C1)I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have placed before you life and death, ^(C2)the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your ^(F1)descendants,^20 (C1)by loving the LORD your God, by obeying His voice, and ^(C2)by holding close to Him; ^(C3)for ^(F1)this is your life and the length of your days, ^(F2)so that you may live in ^(C4)the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them."